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CSA SPEAKER BULLETIN TECHNOLOGY
ROBOT INTELLIGENCE
Paradise or Nightmare?
Rodney Brooks is a From a commercial point of view and the right expectations, so that
legendary robotics Brooks says “Almost all companies they can move forward and be
entrepreneur, former will need to invest in AI, and many successful. The dangers are missing
Director of the MIT Artificial will need to invest in robotics, but the boat that other people do not
Intelligence Laboratory and they need to be wary of a bubble. miss, and conversely getting sucked
the MIT Computer Science The bubble is expanding at the into grandiose expectations and
& Artificial Intelligence moment and there are many who are investments that will not pan out well.”
Laboratory. overpromising.
In a recent article he stated there are
Rodney studies and engineers robot At the same time there are going rules for predicting a technology’s
intelligence and is looking for the to be competitor companies who commercial success. Building
holy grail of robotics – one that can make smart investments with real electric cars and reusable rockets is
figure things out for itself, like humans ROI that are going to change fairly easy, whilst building a nuclear
do. Early on he realized that a top- how some businesses work. Thus fusion reactor, self-driving cars or a
down approach – just building the executives in companies around the Hyperloop system is very hard. The
biggest brain possible and teaching it world are faced with how to see difference, in a word, is experience.
everything he could think of – would through the hype, to figure out what The difference between the possible
never work. What would work is a the real impacts are going to be in and the practical can only be
robot that learns like we do, by trial their business areas, and to figure discovered by trying things out. Read
and error, and with many separate out the right investments, the right Rodney’s article here.
parts that learn separate jobs. partnerships, the right timescales,
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