Rodney Brooks, former MIT professor and co-founder of iRobot and Rethink Robots, has written a blog post criticising many of what he sees as the exaggerated claims around the current and future capabilities of artificial intelligence. He writes: “AI is not going to be able to do everything that humans can do, but it will certainly have some very useful things in its toolkit.
Rodney Brooks, former MIT professor and co-founder of iRobot and Rethink Robots, has written a blog post criticising many of what he sees as the exaggerated claims around the current and future capabilities of artificial intelligence. He identifies the "seven deadly sins" of AI hype: underestimating the rates of technological development, magical thinking, the over-extension of competence, misuse of terms, over application of exponential extrapolation, over application of ideas from Hollywood films, and a poor understanding of the marginal costs and speed of deployment of hardware.