Why is physical AI progressing slower than text-based AI like ChatGPT?
Text AI trained on the internet's free, pre-existing corpus of writing. Physical AI needs sensor data about real-world physics — friction, gravity, weight, texture — that has never been digitized and cannot be scraped. That data has to be captured by hardware deployed in the real world, which is slow and expensive.
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