I have recently blogged about my three laws of robotics. Here I talk about my three laws of Artificial Intelligence, about how people perceive AI systems, about how they operate in the world and how difficult it is to make them general purpose in any sense. When an AI system performs a task, human observers … Continue reading Rodney Brooks’ Three Laws of Artificial Intelligence

Here are some of the things I’ve learned about robotics after working in the field for almost five decades.  In honor of Isaac Asimov and Arthur C. Clarke, my two boyhood go-to science fiction writers, I’m calling them my three laws of robotics. The visual appearance of a robot makes a promise about what it … Continue reading Rodney Brooks’ Three Laws of Robotics