Deepak Pathak: AGI came from billions of years of physical self-play, and robots will scale it
deepakpathak · x · 2026-09-24
CMU's Deepak Pathak argues the only AGI on Earth emerged from billions of years of "physical self-play," and robots trained the same way can scale — "this method scales, and we will scale it." Zipeng Fu's retweet adds a lighthearted anecdote about robot soccer matches at CMU.
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