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The Generalist Podcast Transcripts

Mario Gabriele · 52 episodes with transcripts

“The future is already here. It’s just not evenly distributed.” The Generalist Podcast brings you weekly conversations with the people who live in these pockets of the future – visionary founders, prescient investors, and original thinkers.

Spoken has transcripts of 52 The Generalist episodes, with the speakers named. The newest listed here is from October 20, 2026.

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Pete Florence: When Robots Improvise

October 20, 2026

Pete Florence (0:00)

2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster. It's the Fukushima number one nuclear power plant. Japan has been hit by its biggest earthquake. Simply heartbreak. There wasn't a robot in the world that could walk into the nuclear facility after the meltdown and just turn a valve. And so we had to send people in for that. If…

Mario Gabriele (0:40)

Shulto Douglas, well-known anthropic researcher, called this sort of a GPT-3 moment for robotics.

Pete Florence (0:46)

The example that we highlighted is using a brush to sweep an object into a bowl, and then instead you take the brush away and you give it a dustpan.

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