Autonomous Vehicles 2023, Part I
My Early Experience with Self Driving Cars| Rodney Brooks
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
[An essay in my series on the Future of Robotics and Artificial Intelligence.]| Rodney Brooks
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. The short answer is that it takes longer than anyone thinks to get to deployment, and so sustained … Continue reading Deployment at scale takes decades| Rodney Brooks
On March 26th I skeeted out five technology predictions, talking about developments over the next ten years through January 1st, 2036. I’ll incorporate these new predictions into my scorecard posts (every Jan 1st) and see how accurate they have been over that time period. Note that none of these predictions are saying what might happen after the 10 years are up.| Rodney Brooks
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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 sense. When an AI system performs a task, human observers … Continue reading Rodney Brooks’ Three Laws of Artificial Intelligence| Rodney Brooks
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.| Rodney Brooks
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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.| Rodney Brooks
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.| Rodney Brooks
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 for rushing it out today is this story, today, that Cruise is no longer allowed to operate driverless taxis in San Francisco.| Rodney Brooks
On January 1st, 2018, I made predictions about self driving cars, Artificial Intelligence, machine learning, and robotics, and about progress in the space industry. Those predictions had dates attached to them for 32 years up through January 1st, 2050.| 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
I see lots of hype about eVTOLs being on the verge of being big, but I can’t find any videos of prototypes doing what the hype says will be common place by 2025.| Rodney Brooks
Just over ten years ago, on April 5th, 2012 to be precise, I took my first ride in a self-driving car, from Google X, in a research unit that has now become Waymo. There was someone sitting in the driver seat, but he had his feet and hands off the controls. We left Google and went for a drive on a couple of freeways around Mountain View in California. It was daytime, sunny, and easy.| Rodney Brooks
On January 1st, 2018, I made predictions about self driving cars, Artificial Intelligence, machine learning, and robotics, and about progress in the space industry. Those predictions had dates attached to them for 32 years up through January 1st, 2050.| Rodney Brooks
