Viral AI Robot Demos Are a Lie. Hereโs the Only Metric That Matters.
We are living in an era of magical technological parlor tricks. A GPT-style model can control a robotic arm, but it costs $2 to stack a single block. The real battle isn’t about making AI smarter; it’s about making it cheap enough to displace human labor. If you’re watching viral demos, you’re looking at the wrong metric.