AI development is splitting into two directions: physical-world automation via humanoid robots and digital AI-to-human symbiosis resembling a personal Jarvis
Adcock outlines his thesis that AI will split into two massive directions: humanoid robots for physical-world tasks (Figure) and a digital AI-to-human symbiosis — essentially a personal Jarvis that knows everything about your life and can act on your behalf (Hark). ✦ AI generated
Brett Adcock · My First Million · 2026-08-14 · original ↗
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I strongly believe like AI will head in two directions like uh like and then at some point maybe even like maybe like head together like the first is we'll have AI out in the physical world that will like do everything in the in in the environment for you like laundry, dishes, cooking like run the supply chain and be in healthcare. The vessel for that is a humanoid robot. It's just a human form and it will just go out and do like you like want one piece of hardware that can like you know the hardware is capable of doing everything and you put like smart AI into it and it'll go off and do everything in the world. That's what Figure is working on. Separately than that, there's going to be this like really close like digital like AI to human symbiosis that forms.
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7:53looking to become successful or you're already successful and just want some more inspiration, check it out. I strongly believe like AI will head in two directions like uh like and then at some point maybe even like maybe like head together like the first is we'll have AI out in the physical world that will like do everything in the in in the environment for you like laundry, dishes, cooking like run the supply
8:12chain and be in healthcare. The vessel for that is a humanoid robot. It's just a human form and it will just go out and do like you like want one piece of hardware that can like you know the hardware is capable of doing everything and you put like smart AI into it and it'll go off and do everything in the world. That's what Figure is working on.
8:27Separately than that, there's going to be this like really close like digital like AI to human symbiosis that forms. You're going to have like this very special thing that you can like talk to that's with you everywhere you go that will know all your stuff, have access to all your memories, have access to all your accounts and systems and be able to actually go do things for like a
8:46superhuman assistant. It'll be like um maybe the closest thing is like Jarvis from Iron Man and it will be able to do like it'll be like super human in almost every way. It'll know everything about your life. You'll be able to access it at any moment whenever you need it. It'll be in the background helping you out at all times. If you're on a like if you're on a flight with like a long
9:03layover or flight with like maybe say a short short layover and you miss it, it'll like already have backup plans already help you like figure that out. Like it'll just be something with you everywhere you go. We don't have that. We have like really good coding agents. We have really good chat bots, but we don't have like something that can go off and like be my Jarvis. In order to
9:19get there, we need to work on the like model side. It's got to be just better than text chat. It's got to be able to use computers, have like basically near perfect memory, be able to talk to you like just like a human would back and forth. And uh we have to have vision in the system. You have to be like look at the world and understand what you're
9:35seeing with it. And I think secondly, you need to have um you need to fix the the interface to AI. You have like um AI over here and a human and you have like an old hardware system in between like a call like a MacBook or iPhone. They were designed 20 years ago. They're complete rubbish for AI. They're not the right interface. So, we went out and
- ·Physical-world automation via humanoid robots (Figure)
- ·Digital AI-to-human symbiosis (personal Jarvis)
- ·Robot vessel capable of doing everything
- ·Tasks: laundry, dishes, cooking, supply chain
- ·Healthcare applications included
- ·Smart AI + human-form hardware
- ·Close digital AI-human partnership
- ·Knows everything about your life
- ·Acts on your behalf autonomously
- ·Like having a personal Jarvis