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Alexandr Wang explains the number robotaxi companies don't publish: one human for every 3 to 5 driverless cars.
Wang, who built Scale AI, was asked on Y Combinator's Lightcone podcast what humans will still do once AI agents do the work.
"Most of a manager's job, speaking as a manager, is just putting out fires, dealing with problems, dealing with issues that come up."
"I think people often jump to this extreme reality... you're just going to manage the agents and you're going to live this kind of Victorian life where all your problems are solved. But no, I think it's still going to be pretty complicated, getting agents to coordinate well with one another and coordinating the workflows and debugging the issues that come up."
"Having seen what happened in self-driving, which was more or less that it's easy to get to 90%, very very hard to get to 99%... I think that something similar will happen as with large scale agent deployments, and that final 10% of accuracy... will require a lot of work."
The host pointed out that robotaxis still have remote assist for the edge cases. Wang went further:
"And the ratio, by the way, the companies don't publish them, but I think the ratio is something like five cars to one tele-operator, or maybe even less than maybe three cars per tele-operator. So the ratio is much lower than people think. I think humans are much more involved even in self-driving cars than I think most people appreciate."
"For an optimistic version of the future where unemployment is still low, you just have to believe that humans are almost insatiable in their desire and their demand, and that prices will go down... the economy will become more efficient and we'll just want more."
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US energy company execs have resigned in disgust as the Trump family is caught secretly expediting the funneling of $25 billion from a sanctioned Russian energy giant in exchange for allowing Russians to obtain a natural gas project in Alaska.
According to investigations by The New York Times and Financial Times, Russia's Novatek allegedly concealed its financial involvement in the American project through a UAE-linked intermediary.
Gentry Beach, a longtime Trump ally and close friend of Donald Trump Jr., signed an agreement with Novatek to pursue natural gas development in Alaska. Reuters documented the arrangement in February.
Meanwhile, Vladimir Putin discussed this cooperation on the Alaska energy project with Trump's representatives, Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, during negotiations involving Russia and Ukraine.
The controversy deepened when Polar Train LNG's CEO, Joel Riddle, raised concerns about concealed Russian financing and possible sanctions violations. He departed in September, followed by other senior executives.
The Financial Times also described discussions about a potential arrangement under which Novatek would provide technology for the Alaska project in exchange for sanctions relief benefiting its Arctic LNG 2 development in Siberia.
According to The New York Times, Riddle and two other departing executives warned the Trump administration about the Russian financing and urged officials to investigate.
The White House maintains that the project was mentioned only briefly and that no detailed discussions took place. There is no established evidence that Kushner or Witkoff knew about the allegedly concealed financing. Polar Train LNG denies wrongdoing.
The central question is how a sanctioned Russian energy company became involved in a major American energy venture while Putin was discussing potential economic cooperation with Trump's representatives and a longtime Trump family associate was pursuing a separate agreement with the same Russian company.
Selling Alaska to the Russians or selling Ukraine to the Russians - to the Trump family it's all the same.
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Everyone saying excel modeling skills will no longer be valuable but it’s ok because I never had them anyway
Took 45 mins of The Move but eventually Lance can’t help himself and weighs in on French politics and poor Johan just wants to talk cycling
Why am I flying to the Carolina’s to visit the grandkids?
This guy is why
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This is good. They should start building in blue states so it can happen there.
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Boomers with $4 million in assets
Paying $200/month for Medicare
Collecting $5k/month social security
All funded by millennials who can’t afford to buy a house or get sick 😳
Carney might be a genius has liberals cheering a pipeline.
Do the structural reforms and energy infrastructure Canada desperately needs “to own the Americans”.
1984 couldn’t even imagine
Excited about our new Bee devices launching today. They turn your conversations into summaries, to-dos, and reminders, so the details are there when you need them.
Bee Frontier goes on your wrist or clips to your clothing, and Bee Eclipse snaps to the back of your phone to catch what you'd otherwise forget throughout your day, whether it's notes from a class you're taking, the details of a trip you're planning, or an idea that comes to you in the car.
They connect to Alexa+ and Amazon.com, so the things you mention are easy to find later. And you're always in control…one button turns it on or off, a light shows when it's on, audio is never stored, and only you can see your data.
Think folks are gonna find this really handy. aboutamazon.com/news/devices…