"AI...making things expensive for the rest of us. Large language models...are so resource-hungry that tech companies...purchasing 70% of the world’s supply of high-end computer memory, causing a shortage." The opposite of what we expect from new technologies. www.theatlantic.c…
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Primarily Robotics and AI. Distinguishing hype-notism from plausibility one press release at a time. rodneybrooks.com/blog people.csail.mit.edu/brooks
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Generative AI Is an Engineering Disaster theatlantic.com
Tesla’s Robotaxi Push Tests New Blueprint for Scaling Fast theinformation.com
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Dartmouth workshop - Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org
House Cleaning My January 1, 2018 Predictions – Rodney Brooks rodneybrooks.com
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In SF I always see a driverless Waymo within 2 or 3 blocks. Have seen one(!) Robotaxi; required to have a human driver. "As of mid-May, the company currently has 1,901 drivers and 414 vehicles registered for the service in the state" 4.5 drivers per Robotaxi... www.theinformat…
This story starts out realistically "they're basically oversized toys", but then slides into hypenotism with talking points from humanoid companies and investment bankers. edition.cnn.com/2026/06/30/t...
The Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial Intelligence was in 1956. This summer is the 70th anniversary. I've been full time in AI for 50 of those 70 years. We're a long way from those early days but we have vastly further to go, despite what the hype says. en.wikipe…
Update on my dated tech predictions from Jan 1, 2018. Most dates were for the first ten years (spoiler alert: I was overly optimistic when everyone thought I was being a pessimist). New analysis every Jan 1st for 24 more years, on the remainder plus 5 new themes. rodneybrooks.…
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1/9 On Fri Jun 26th I was on an AI panel at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation event "Humanity at the Core" in Athens, with Francesca Rossi, John Cleese, Garry Kasparov, moderated by magician Mark Mitton.
On ML & and hammers and nails. Steam engine invented 1698, water pumps for mines 1712, factories 1780, trains 1825, ships 1840, global transportation 1875, massive ships 1900+, cars 1906. Airplanes? Single demo flight 1933. Space launch? Nada. The moral: not all tools work well for everything.
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