We accidentally solved robotics by watching 1M hours of YouTube

I just wrote a reply to a comment talking about the AI tells this writing has, but it got flagged so my comment disappeared when I hit post. I'll rephrase out of spite:

My first thought upon reading this was that an LLM had been instructed to add a pithy meme joke to each paragraph. They don't make sense in context, and while some terminally online people do speak in memes, those people aren't quoting doge in 2025.

There's also a sense of incoherence in the whole piece. For instance, this section:

"- after: 22 million videos + 1 million images (now we're talking)

they basically hoovered up everything: something-something v2, kinetics, howto100m, and a billion youtube videos"

Was it a billion vids or 22m? It turns out the latter sentence is just rephrasing the list of sources in a cool casual way, and the last one is called YT-Temporal-1B. That's a billion frames of video, not a billion videos.

>those people aren't quoting doge in 2025

Could you explain what this means? Is this article quoting doge?

There was a clear attempt at the doge meme format, yes:

> very scientific. much engineering.

Emphasis on attempt because you're supposed to use words with grammatically incorrect modifiers, and the first one doesn't. (Even the second one doesn't seem entirely incorrect to me? I'm not a native speaker though.) "many scientific, so engineering" for example would have worked.

I assume they, or most likely their LLM, tried too hard to follow the most popular sequence (very, much, wow) and failed at it.