Dr. Alan D. Thompson
“Google DeepMind's Gemini Robotics 2 represents a step-change in embodied AI capability. The system uses a 'three-model architecture spanning vision-language-action, embodied reasoning, and on-device adaptation' that now controls entire humanoid robots 'from feet to fingertips.'”
Source→“He has removed mathematics indicators from his ASI checklist entirely because he 'considers it to be a solved problem.'”
Source→“DeepMind itself frames this as 'an important milestone on the path toward solving AGI in the physical world' — significant enough that the author's AGI countdown was revised upward to 98%.”
Source→“Interviewed the author; cited as an exemplar of deep-preparation journalism”
Source→“The newsletter notes it 'features in recent AI papers by Microsoft and Apple, has been discussed on Joe Rogan's podcast... is used by top brass at the White House'”
Source→“The newsletter notes it 'features in recent AI papers by Microsoft and Apple, has been discussed on Joe Rogan's podcast... is used by top brass at the White House' and counts RAND, Google, and Meta AI among its 10,000+ subscribers.”
Source→AI-extracted from podcast / newsletter / paper summaries. May contain errors.