Flying Tesla Car, Robot Brains Halving in Cost Every 3 Weeks, and Why Incentives Decide AI Alignment | #303

Robotic-AI task costs are halving roughly every three weeks, a pace the hosts call faster than any tech curve seen before.

• Robot intelligence costs collapse: Frontier model cost to complete a robot subtask fell from $2.36 (July) to 38¢ (September) — an 84% drop, halving roughly every three weeks, per RoboCurve's RoboDojo RC Tier-1 benchmark.
• AI cracks physics: GPT-6 (Astra) solved 49 of 50 unpublished, verifiable graduate-level physics problems for ~$3 each — versus a day's work for a world-class physicist — and corrected an error in the official 50th answer.

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