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Predictions Scorecard, 2025 January 01

Published: January 1, 2025 07:31

[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)…

Tips For Building and Deploying Robots

Published: September 30, 2024 00:06

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…

Rodney Brooks’ Three Laws of Artificial Intelligence

Published: July 29, 2024 19:25

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…

Rodney Brooks’ Three Laws of Robotics

Published: July 29, 2024 19:25

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…

Predictions Scorecard, 2024 January 01

Published: January 1, 2024 05:03

[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…

Autonomous Vehicles 2023, Part III

Published: December 24, 2023 23:48

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…

Three Things That LLMs Have Made Us Rethink

Published: December 9, 2023 02:24

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…

Autonomous Vehicles 2023, Part II

Published: October 24, 2023 19:32

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…

Autonomous Vehicles 2023, Part I

Published: October 21, 2023 19:44

My Early Experience with Self Driving Cars Back in the summer of 1979 (forty four years ago) I was Hans Moravec’s gopher, at the Stanford AI Lab, helping test his self driving Cart for his PhD thesis. Every night that summer we would wait until midnight or…

What Will Transformers Transform?

Published: March 23, 2023 04:30

Generative Pre-trained Transformer models (GPTs) are now all the rage and have inspired op-eds being written by everyone from Henry Kissinger (WSJ) to Noam Chomsky (NYTimes) in just the last month. That sure is some hype level. Way back in the early…