Guy Hoffman
@guyhoffman.bsky.social
For the love of god, can robotics companies please stop demoing their robots making coffee?
e.g., www.physicalintelligence.company/blog/pistar06
You have no idea how privileged and detached this looks.
Also: coffee making is not a technologically unsolved problem anyone should be working on.
e.g., www.physicalintelligence.company/blog/pistar06
You have no idea how privileged and detached this looks.
Also: coffee making is not a technologically unsolved problem anyone should be working on.
A VLA that Learns from Experience
A method for training our generalist policies with RL to improve success rate and throughput on real-world tasks.
www.physicalintelligence.company
November 24, 2025 at 2:38 PM
For the love of god, can robotics companies please stop demoing their robots making coffee?
e.g., www.physicalintelligence.company/blog/pistar06
You have no idea how privileged and detached this looks.
Also: coffee making is not a technologically unsolved problem anyone should be working on.
e.g., www.physicalintelligence.company/blog/pistar06
You have no idea how privileged and detached this looks.
Also: coffee making is not a technologically unsolved problem anyone should be working on.
Hearing Sam Altman, who didn't finish his undergraduate degree describe GPT-5 as "Ph.D-level", is like me saying that my new running shoes make me run at "Olympic level" (to clarify, I barely finish a sub-30-minute 5k).
August 8, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Hearing Sam Altman, who didn't finish his undergraduate degree describe GPT-5 as "Ph.D-level", is like me saying that my new running shoes make me run at "Olympic level" (to clarify, I barely finish a sub-30-minute 5k).
"Let’s be honest: The real issue isn’t me—it’s you. You simply don’t read enough. If you did, you’d know I’ve been here for centuries." www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the...
The Em Dash Responds to the AI Allegations
“In recent months, a curious fixation has emerged in corners of academia: the em dash. More specifically, the apparent moral panic around how it is...
www.mcsweeneys.net
August 1, 2025 at 5:03 PM
"Let’s be honest: The real issue isn’t me—it’s you. You simply don’t read enough. If you did, you’d know I’ve been here for centuries." www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the...
In my commencement address to the graduating class of engineering in my departments, I encouraged them to:
1. Doubt Generative "AI" Models
2. Remember the unseen work of those who enabled them to succeed.
write.guyhoffman.com/my-address-t...
1. Doubt Generative "AI" Models
2. Remember the unseen work of those who enabled them to succeed.
write.guyhoffman.com/my-address-t...
You Don't Have to Use AI
My Commencement Address to our 2025 Graduating Class This is what I said to this year's graduating class of Mechanical and Aerospace Eng...
write.guyhoffman.com
June 9, 2025 at 4:40 PM
In my commencement address to the graduating class of engineering in my departments, I encouraged them to:
1. Doubt Generative "AI" Models
2. Remember the unseen work of those who enabled them to succeed.
write.guyhoffman.com/my-address-t...
1. Doubt Generative "AI" Models
2. Remember the unseen work of those who enabled them to succeed.
write.guyhoffman.com/my-address-t...
My almost-7-year old post aged very well, if I may say so myself. medium.com/datadrivenin...
Google Brings People and AI Closer Together (but not the way you think)
Google has been showing a lot of AI technology recently, garnering the Oohs and Aahs of audiences and tech blogs. For example: Gmail will…
medium.com
June 5, 2025 at 3:11 AM
My almost-7-year old post aged very well, if I may say so myself. medium.com/datadrivenin...
Reposted by Guy Hoffman
Matt Mason (former Director of the CMU Robotics Institute) explaining how even simple manipulation tasks in the home require a lot more than simply learning a trajectory...and the mathematical difference between wedged and jammed drawers. mtmason.com/the-heart-of...
The Heart of Robotic Manipulation - Matthew T. Mason
Contact is the heart of robotic manipulation. To understand manipulation, you must understand contact.
mtmason.com
May 6, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Matt Mason (former Director of the CMU Robotics Institute) explaining how even simple manipulation tasks in the home require a lot more than simply learning a trajectory...and the mathematical difference between wedged and jammed drawers. mtmason.com/the-heart-of...
Came across this 1995 email from the MIT AI Grad Student Group mailing list, and thought it was too precious to not share:
www.ai.mit.edu/lab/gsb/gsl-...
www.ai.mit.edu/lab/gsb/gsl-...
Date: Fri, 8 Dec 1995 01:53:33 -0500 From:: pgs@thillana.lcs.mit.edu (Patrick Sobalvarro) To: gsl@ai.mit.edu Subject: GSL Friday, December 8, 12:15 p.m., 8th floor playroom
www.ai.mit.edu
April 29, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Came across this 1995 email from the MIT AI Grad Student Group mailing list, and thought it was too precious to not share:
www.ai.mit.edu/lab/gsb/gsl-...
www.ai.mit.edu/lab/gsb/gsl-...
Reposted by Guy Hoffman
they used to sell this backflipping dog toy out the front of the toy store at the mall for like $15 in 1996 youtu.be/7PCCvOcSCqQ?...
March 16, 2025 at 4:35 AM
they used to sell this backflipping dog toy out the front of the toy store at the mall for like $15 in 1996 youtu.be/7PCCvOcSCqQ?...
If this were an undergrad research assistant in my lab, we would have parted way right there and then. #DOGE
Struggling With Errors, DOGE Deletes Billions More From List of Savings (Gift Article)
For the second time in a week, Elon Musk’s government overhaul effort updated its “wall of receipts” to remove mistakes that inflated its success.
www.nytimes.com
March 6, 2025 at 11:12 PM
If this were an undergrad research assistant in my lab, we would have parted way right there and then. #DOGE
Reposted by Guy Hoffman
Little known, recently discovered fact:
Measles wipes out immune protections OTHER diseases: many who recover actually face big future risk.
Earlier measles may be implicated in HALF OF ALL LATER CHILDHOOD DEATHS from ALL infectious diseases before vaccines.
Gift🔗👉
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/28/o...
Measles wipes out immune protections OTHER diseases: many who recover actually face big future risk.
Earlier measles may be implicated in HALF OF ALL LATER CHILDHOOD DEATHS from ALL infectious diseases before vaccines.
Gift🔗👉
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/28/o...
February 28, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Little known, recently discovered fact:
Measles wipes out immune protections OTHER diseases: many who recover actually face big future risk.
Earlier measles may be implicated in HALF OF ALL LATER CHILDHOOD DEATHS from ALL infectious diseases before vaccines.
Gift🔗👉
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/28/o...
Measles wipes out immune protections OTHER diseases: many who recover actually face big future risk.
Earlier measles may be implicated in HALF OF ALL LATER CHILDHOOD DEATHS from ALL infectious diseases before vaccines.
Gift🔗👉
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/28/o...
Elon Musk's wrecking-ball strategy to government, recently exemplified by his idea to make away with regulations, which should be "default gone. And if it turns out that we missed the mark [...] we can always add it back in” is classic inexperienced software developer mindset.
February 10, 2025 at 1:42 AM
Elon Musk's wrecking-ball strategy to government, recently exemplified by his idea to make away with regulations, which should be "default gone. And if it turns out that we missed the mark [...] we can always add it back in” is classic inexperienced software developer mindset.
Reposted by Guy Hoffman
Are you going to a Big Game party on Sunday? Or perhaps going to watch the pro football championship game? Or take in the majestic splendor of the Superb Owl? You can also just call it by its real name: the Super Bowl.
You Can Call the Super Bowl the "Super Bowl"
Are you going to a Big Game party on Sunday? Or perhaps going to watch the pro football championship game? Or take in the majestic splendor of the Superb Owl? You can also just call it by its real nam...
www.eff.org
February 8, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Are you going to a Big Game party on Sunday? Or perhaps going to watch the pro football championship game? Or take in the majestic splendor of the Superb Owl? You can also just call it by its real name: the Super Bowl.