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Amos Weiskopf's avatar

This is one of the most quietly revolutionary conversations I've heard on real-world autonomy. The insight that construction, unlike autonomous vehicles, allows surgical depth-first automation, targeting the highest-leverage repeatable tasks before scaling breadth, is gold.

Most people still think of AI as cognition without embodiment. This shows the inverse: action informed by intelligence, manifesting as a machine that learns to dig, literally.

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Earl S. Kubin's avatar

An acquaintance on FB James Matlock wants to run for Texas RRC. He’s been against AI but I’ve been discussing this with him for 6 months. I hope James listens to this complete post. I think you Sir and Mr Sofman did a great job explaining this technology.

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