Rishabh Agarwal on physical AI: RL is 'the dumbest paradigm,' yet it works
ziv_ravid · x · 2026-11-14
The Information Bottleneck podcast hosts Rishabh Agarwal (Periodic Labs) on physical AI and AI doing real science. After years in RL, he calls it "the dumbest paradigm anyone could have come up with" — but it works anyway. At Periodic Labs, a model can't just think harder: someone has to mix the powders and measure what came out.
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