Rodney Brooks on AI
5 quotes from Rodney Brooks on the wall, 2008 to 2017, newest first. Each one is verbatim and links to where it was said. Sources include rodneybrooks.com, IEEE Spectrum, Robohub (originally Rethink Robotics blog).
- 2017
Nothing in the Universe is without limit
Roboticist Rodney Brooks, former director of the MIT AI Lab and cofounder of iRobot, in a September 2017 essay on his own site on mistaken predictions about AI, in the section on imagining magic.
rodneybrooks.com[FoR&AI] The Seven Deadly Sins of Predicting the Future of AI
A faith-based argument, not a scientific argument
Rodney Brooks, roboticist and former MIT AI Lab director, on arguments about future AI that cannot be refuted, in his September 2017 essay The Seven Deadly Sins of Predicting the Future of AI on his blog.
rodneybrooks.com[FoR&AI] The Seven Deadly Sins of Predicting the Future of AI
- 2014
A mistake to be worrying about us developing malevolent AI
Rodney Brooks, founder of Rethink Robotics and of iRobot, wrote a blog essay, republished on Robohub, replying to warnings about AI in November 2014.
Robohub (originally Rethink Robotics blog)Artificial intelligence is a tool, not a threat
- 2008
Rodney Brooks, MIT robotics professor and director of its CSAIL lab, wrote this essay for IEEE Spectrum's special issue on the singularity in June 2008.
A robot that people feel bad about switching off
Rodney Brooks, MIT roboticist and cofounder of iRobot, writing in IEEE Spectrum in June 2008 about robots people would interact with socially, in an essay arguing robot emotions may become indistinguishable from human ones.
Mentioned in other quotes 3
Quotes by others that refer to Rodney Brooks
- 2007
The original robot is already in a museum
Berkeley philosopher Hubert Dreyfus on Cog, the humanoid robot project of Rodney Brooks and Daniel Dennett at MIT, in a 2007 paper for the journal Artificial Intelligence.
- 1991
Explicit representations and models of the world simply get in the way
Rodney Brooks of the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory set out his case against central world models in AI in "Intelligence without representation", Artificial Intelligence 47 (1991), a paper received in September 1987.
Artificial Intelligence (Elsevier)Intelligence without representation
- 1990
The world is its own best model
Rodney Brooks, roboticist at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, argued for physically grounded robots over symbolic AI in this 1990 paper, "Elephants Don't Play Chess", in Robotics and Autonomous Systems.
Robotics and Autonomous Systems (Elsevier)Elephants Don't Play Chess