This time around I decided on a guest column. The guest is a 37 years ago younger me, and this post is one that I wrote for Manufacturing Engineering in March of 1988. It was for the last page of the trade magazine, in a regular feature titled “THE LAST WORD”. You can download a pdf of the original from my MIT website, which has a pencil drawn picture of the 33 year old me (over half my life ago). Below is just the text of that piece, with a few places that I have highlighted as bei...| Rodney Brooks
Anyone who reads just about anything these days will know there are two big things in AI at the moment. They are Generative AI and Humanoid Robots. There is a lot of hype about these two new (to most people) versions of AI and robots, and it has shifted all the major tech companies to have a strategy in one or both of these fields. And together they have made NVIDIA one of the most valuable companies on Earth.| Rodney Brooks
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.| Rodney Brooks