With Unusual Ventures & HumanSignal.

Unusual Ventures & HumanSignal invite you to "Taste: A Physical AI Data Happy Hour"

Topic: The data machines can't make for themselves

Unusual Ventures & HumanSignal invite you to an evening of drinks, tastings, & real conversation with the people building physical AI, from frontier labs to robotics startups to the teams quietly running the data programs behind them.

Here's the premise. The hardest data in AI right now isn't online & can't be scraped. It has to be created in the physical world, from a first-person point of view, with human judgment in the loop. Teleoperation is hitting its ceiling. Simulation has its gap. The fastest-moving frontier is human & egocentric data, & the open question is how you create it, label it, & make it transfer.

So we're building the night around that idea: taste, judgment, & the signal only people can produce. Expect blind pisco & cocktail tastings, a few sensory challenges, & a DJ running human-made versus AI-generated tracks for the room to call. The games are the thesis: when can a model tell the difference, & when can only a person?

No slides, no pitch. Just the peers wrestling with the same problem, & a good excuse to compare notes. Come if you're leading AI work, building physical AI products, or running the data behind it.

Food, drinks, & tastings provided. Bring a plus-one.

Conversation we expect to get into:

What actually comes after teleoperation

Egocentric & first-person data: hype, or the real unlock

The human-to-robot embodiment gap, & what it takes to close it

Why "more data" stopped being the answer

The proprietary real-world datasets becoming competitive moats