Will Brown: robotics isn't scaling because researchers haven't learned LLMs' subtle art of scaling
willcb · x · 2026-10-09
- Former OpenAI researcher Will Brown argues robotics isn't scaling because robotics researchers haven't yet learned the subtle art of scaling the way LLM researchers have — "it isn't just throwing more data and compute."
- He notes LLMs also initially lacked subtlety, and it took researchers years to figure it out, implying robotics may need similar tacit engineering accumulation.
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