AI Dungeon creator: smart AI is the stepping stone to robots mining asteroids
cephaloform · x · 2026-09-27
AI Dungeon creator Nick Walton quoted Adept co-founder David Holz, saying he originally wanted to build asteroid mining but reached the same conclusion: settling the stars requires smart robots, and smart robots require smart AI. "We're on the path," he wrote — tying AI progress to the long-term vision of robots mining asteroids and space colonization.
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