Rodney Brooks

I have come to understand four very different time scales for development of technologies and their deployments.

Quick Summary: I am going to continue to do my yearly update on three sets of technologies every January 1st.

Nothing is ever as good as it first seems and nothing is ever as bad as it first seems. — A best memory paraphrase of advice given to me by Vice Admiral Joe Dyer, former chief test pilot of the US Navy and former Commander of NAVAIR.

In early September a poem about AI started circulating on social media, with a publication date of 1961.

In this post I explain why today’s humanoid robots will not learn how to be dexterous despite the hundreds of millions, or perhaps many billions of dollars, being donated by VCs and major tech companies to pay for their training.

The term “Embodied AI” is having its moment in the sun right now.

This time around I decided on a guest column.

Anyone who reads just about anything these days will know there are two big things in AI at the moment.

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.

On March 26th I skeeted out five technology predictions, talking about developments over the next ten years through January 1st, 2036.