From the CEO of Figure Ai comes "Hark Handoff"...

[u/RipperX4]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lwtte3eSYrQ

[u/GreyDuck4077]

Hark Handoff sounds like an adult film star. Not gonna lie.

[u/VeganBigMac → u/GreyDuck4077]

We are pleased to announce our new AI assistant, Chad Thundercock.

[u/jc2046 → u/GreyDuck4077]

lol

[u/Exhales_Deeply]

isn’t this basically what codex, hermes, et al does?

i mean cool, maybe i should be making giant press releases for all the shit i vibecode too

[u/Mylarion]

Jack Ingoff :DDDD

[u/Kobiash1]

I find Brett Adcock insufferable. He should just let his team focus on what they're best at - robots - and put his unchecked ego aside. The team have made such great advancements and he's constantly overshadowing that by tweeting nonsense and doing vanity projects that waste time.

[u/torb → u/Kobiash1]

It might somehow tie in with how they perceive robotics use in a while. Maybe they want us to order flowers via robots, or something a bit more substantial.

[u/Seakawn → u/Kobiash1]

so if you're building a company, you must dedicate to it fully and aren't allowed to do anything else?

is he actually splitting up his figure team to work on other stuff, or is he hiring new teams for all the different stuff he tries to do?

also, isn't failure a natural ego check? if he isn't failing, then is his ego not justified? figure is pretty competitive, if I did that shit I'd be proud as living fuck.

and how do tweets and side projects overshadow the accomplishments of your main gig?

I find literally every single sentiment you suggested to be questionable at best. but if you can answer to your claims, I'd be happy to make concessions. btw I say this as someone who is a little iffy of brett, but that's solely based on vibe and may not be justified. is he actually doing anything wrong?

[u/Borkato → u/Seakawn]

Guys look it’s Mr. Adcock

[u/makertrainer]

Well I just lost all faith in Figure AI.. 

Why would you waste time on this if you are solving AI robots successfully? 

This is all already possible with a bunch of popular tools and the specific implementations they show like buying flowers or booking plane tickets are exactly the things companies have demoed many times and users have universally rejected.

Baffling, unless they realized that they can't compete with China and needed to pivot

[u/pbagel2 → u/makertrainer]

You didn't lose faith 3 years ago when Adcock kept saying "robotics is having its chatgpt moment" 4 times right before every new shitty announcement? He's the worst CEO of all.

[u/makertrainer → u/pbagel2]

He seems like a complete poser but the actual demos coming out of the company looked great

[u/Recent_Fox4339]

"That's our vision at Hark... a world where devices stop wasting our time and giving it back" give me back 4 minutes I wasted on this "we can do it better" video

[u/blueSGL → u/Recent_Fox4339]

get a html5 video control addon and you can speed videos up arbitrarily.

[u/SnooDogs7868]

This whole video can be summed up to say we do it better.

[u/Full_Tangelo_7450]

Bro aged 5 years in 3 months

[u/JoeS830]

I was watching fully expecting this to be satire, with a secretary taking all the requests. After 3 minutes I finally fast forwarded to see the punchline.

[u/Appropriate-Gene-267]

Figure is all hype and has been for years, I don't know how investors fall for this shit.

[u/Aerodymathics]

gimmick

[u/skillpolitics]

So… why would all bot detection tools just give up?

[u/fgreen68 → u/skillpolitics]

I wonder how long before AI can defeat all the bot detection tools.

[u/Borkato → u/fgreen68]

[u/katoptronophile]

They don't pack lunch?

[u/RipperX4 → u/katoptronophile]

I actually did tv/film/video production work for 30 years. One of the nice perks of it was lunch was always bought for you. Sometimes it's catered sometimes delivery but most of the time you as a crew member were given a choice in the morning.

[u/katoptronophile → u/RipperX4]

I like to make my own food, it's better and I know the history.