This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Adwait Sathe, a 32-year-old senior data privacy engineer at Meta Superintelligence Labs. It has been edited for length and clarity. I’ve been working at Meta for the last five years, first at Messenger, and for the last three years as a data privacy engineer at Meta
Several robotics companies are tackling one of the toughest problems in AI: building basic models capable of executing tasks they were never explicitly trained to perform. Their approaches run the gamut: from studying millions of web videos and running computer simulations to collecting motion data from humans performing tasks while wearing gloves with embedded sensors.
