Episode #64: The Last Mile of Intelligence: Real-Time Systems and Hardware Leap
In this episode, Stewart Alsop III sits down with Stewart Alsop II to explore a wide sweep of themes—from getting an ESP32 and Arduino IDE up and running, to the future of physical AI, real-time computing, Starlink’s mesh network ambitions, and how edge devices like Apple’s upcoming M-series gear could shift the balance between local and cloud intelligence. Along the way, the two compare today’s robotics hype with real constraints in autonomy, talk through the economics and power dynamics of OpenAI, Anthropic, Amazon, and Google, and reflect on how startups still occasionally crack through…
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