The "no robotics" was intended to be supported by the symbol grounding claims earlier. These examples are interesting but are image labeling, which is neither perception, nor actionable in the way the humans do actionable language. So no real (by my def) deployments by 2030.
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Rodney Brooks Shares Thoughts on GPT Models and Transformers
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Lots of people have been asking for my thoughts on Generative Pre-trained Transformer (GPT) models. I have now written them down. https://
rodneybrooks.com/what-will-tran
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GPT-4 Limitations: Hallucinations, Context Window, No Learning
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Open AI tech report: GPT-4…is not fully reliable (e.g. can suffer from “hallucinations”), has a limited context window, and does not learn from experience. Care should be taken when using the outputs of GPT-4, particularly in contexts where reliability is important.
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MIT AI Lab Project Plan and Vision Project History
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More or less true. Project plan is here http://
people.csail.mit.edu/brooks/idocs/A
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LLM Potential: From Lead to Gold Transmutation Success
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My take on LLM/CHATters. We're going to transmute lead to gold! Why now? We just pumped massive energy in and got Pb to turn to liquid. First time ever. It logically follows that soon we will have AgI(silver incalculable) and even AuI. We (my in group) are going to be RIIICCCHHH!
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Skepticism About Hyped Future Technologies and AI Narratives
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We're all going to be living in the metaverse getting everything we need to know from ChatXYZ, surrounded by stable diffusion art, paid for with crypto, and delivered by self-driving cars, or flying taxis. All fusion powered and run by AGI quantum computers. So much future! Soon!
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ChatGPT Explanation: Impressive But Not Revolutionary
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@stephen_wolfram gives a necessarily long but very good explanation of what and how chatGPT works. My view: calm down people. There are important things there but not the shiny "world has changed for ever" techno-salvation that many people pining for.
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Rodney Brooks Joins Prime Movers Lab Robotics and Automation Discussion
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I’ll be joining @PrimeMoversLab at 3 pm ET today to explore all things #robotics and #automation with @MassRobotics Co-founder & COO @Joyce4girls and Remedy Robotics Co-Founder & CEO David Bell. Register here to watch: https://
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Representation Beyond Cartesian Dualism: Dynamic World Registration
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2/2 representation is not a simple map from the world to some symbolic domain, or ontology, rather objects in the ontology are registered in the world through an ongoing process. Says that "modern" systems such as Google's Knowledge Map are leftover cartesian misconceptions.
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Reading Recommendation on AI and Cartesian Assumptions
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1/2 Also read his more recent book "The promise of Artificial Intelligence: Reckoning and Judgment", MIT Press 2019, and his takedown of the cartesian assumptions of AI representationalism, and his prescription to fix it, "registration" where he is arguing … https://x.com/mraginsky/status/1314601008958500864
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