Correction: Ingesting 15T tokens takes ~100,000 years, not 191
Kangwook_Lee · x · 2026-08-18
The author corrected a calculation comparing robotics and LLM training data, stating that it would take a normal person approximately 100,000 years to ingest 15T tokens, not 191 years. This highlights the vast scale difference and potential miscalculations in current robotics research.
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