Robots Building Robots and Data Centers for Their Brains: Chris Paxton's Wry Take
chris_j_paxton · x · 2026-09-24
Robotics researcher Chris Paxton quips that we are building robots to build other robots, plus data centers for their brains, which can already solve unsolved math problems beyond human knowledge — "it's probably nothing."
A one-line distillation of the embodied AI + compute infrastructure self-acceleration loop, delivered in classic AI-community deadpan.
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