Melanie Mitchell @MelMitchell1 is always incisive in her evaluations of AI, and more generally ALIFE, and the significance of new results and papers. Here she talks about today's LLMs in the clearest way that I have seen. Bravo! https://
science.org/doi/10.1126/sc
ience.adj5957
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Rodney Brooks Praises Melanie Mitchell’s Clear Analysis of LLMs
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Cruise Driverless Service Reliability Issues in San Francisco
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Driverless not a deployed SF "service". Watched @cruise creep towards me for 13 minutes tonight. As it went right past me app informed me of service difficulty, so should try again later. 60 seconds later I was in an Uber. @cruise service success down to 1 in 3 over last 3 weeks.
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Disabling Autonomous Taxis: Public Resistance to Uninvited Technology
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Disabling autonomous taxis by putting orange cones on hoods. People push back against technology they perceive as uninvited, invasive, congestion inducing, and perhaps dangerous.
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The Quest for Eternal Life: From History to AI Church
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The search for eternal life has been a common theme throughout human history and now playing at the church of AI in Silicon Valley. It is always a fraught and difficult quest.
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End-to-End Learning Limitations: The Unspoken Assumption of Hardware
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EndToEnd learning is a fetish, even with pre-training. Why not include the computer, along with the software, and have that learned? Why the distinction? BECAUSE it won't work. The innate computing machine is assumed. Y'all are playing an intellectual game, but don't discuss it.
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Software Billionaire Critiques Billionaire’s FSD Software
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Software billionaire critiques billionaire's FSD software in @IEEESpectrum
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Rodney Brooks CVPR 2023 Keynote Speech Video
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Here is my keynote at CVPR2023 from Tuesday June 20, 2023, earlier this week. It starts at the 27:22 mark of this video.
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Robotaxis interfere with emergency vehicles in San Francisco
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Moving fast and breaking things. The long tail is not solved by learning, fire chief not happy with humanless vehicles in SF https://
latimes.com/business/story
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Cruise Autonomous Vehicle Daylight and Nighttime Performance in San Francisco
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To and from in no human @Cruise this evening. To: 1st time in daylight, car seemed spooked by invisible obstacles at times. Messy dropoff. From: in the dark, deserted streets, great. Best part: pick up across street from @Waymo commercial being filmed. Welcome to SF!
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Rodney Brooks predicts humanity will survive LLMs despite hype
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In @IEEESpectrum I predict humanity will survive LLMs. (Though the hype level is driving me crazy.)