In this prophetic talk from 2003, roboticist Rodney Brooks talks about how robots are going to work their way into our lives — starting with toys and moving into household chores … and beyond.
Brooks realized that a top-down approach — just building the biggest brain possible and teaching it everything we could think of — would never work. What would work is a robot who learns like we do, by trial-and-error, and with many separate parts that learn separate jobs.The thesis of his work is captured in a paper that went on to become the title of the great Errol Morris documentary on Brooks and three others: Fast, Cheap and Out of Control.
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