Robots, AI, and other stuff
Of course, I am filled with fear and anger at the political situation in the US, but we can’t forget about research and how it interplays with the innovation economy of the United States and other countries. The short answer is that it takes longer than anyone thinks to get to deployment, and so sustained … Continue reading Deployment at scale takes decades
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On March 26th I skeeted out five technology predictions, talking about developments over the next ten years through January 1st, 2036. I’ll incorporate these new predictions into my scorecard posts (every Jan 1st) and see how accurate they have been over that time period. Note that none of these predictions are saying what might happen … Continue reading Five new technology predictions for the next decade
[You can follow me on social media: @rodneyabrooks.bsky.social and see my publications etc., at https://people.csail.mit.edu/brooks] This is my seventh annual update on how my dated predictions from January 1st, 2018 concerning (1) self driving cars, (2) robotics, AI , and machine learning, and (3) human space travel, have held up. I promised then to review them … Continue reading Predictions Scorecard, 2025 January 01
This post is not about research or developing software for robots. Instead it is some tips on how to go about building robots for mass deployment and how to leverage those deployed robots for improving your product. The four tips are straightforward but I explain them more below. Use other people’s supply chain scale wherever … Continue reading Tips For Building and Deploying Robots
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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
[You can follow me on social media: @rodneyabrooks.bsky.social] This is my sixth annual update on how my dated predictions from January 1st, 2018 concerning (1) self driving cars, (2) robotics, AI , and machine learning, and (3) human space travel, have held up. I promised then to review them at the start of the year every … Continue reading Predictions Scorecard, 2024 January 01
To finish up this brief series on the reality of autonomous, or self driving vehicles, in 2023 I want to outline my experiences taking almost 40 rides in San Francisco in Cruise vehicles. I have previously reported on my first three rides in Cruise vehicles back in May of 2022. In those three rides, as with … Continue reading Autonomous Vehicles 2023, Part III
rodneybrooks.com/three-things-that-llms-have-made-us-rethink/
There are three things that the existence of LLMs, such as ChatGPT-3.5 and ChatGPT-4 make us have to rethink. At different times and amongst different communities they have all had lots of AI researchers talking about them, often with much passion. Here are three things to note: The Turing Test has evaporated. Searle’s Chinese Room … Continue reading Three Things That LLMs Have Made Us Rethink
I was going to write this post later this week filling in my promised experience from Thursday Oct 19th, 2023, experience of real fear that I might be involved in a really bad accident, while riding in a Cruise driverless taxi in San Francisco. The reason for rushing it out today is this story, today, that Cruise is no … Continue reading Autonomous Vehicles 2023, Part II