<troll>Someone will openly use an LLM to generate a religious/C-anon text and it will become a dominant belief system for millennia with fighting, division, and death; we already know that consistency and rationality are not needed.</troll>L. Ron Hubbard, you've been automated!

You've seen it FIRST here! Just posted my fifth annual review of my dated predictions from Jan 1, 2018, about self driving cars, AI/ML & Robotics, and human spaceflight. They seemed pessimistic back then, but they are standing the test of time. And BONUS five new curmudgeonly predictions this time around. https://rodneybrooks.com/predictions-scorecard-2023-january-01/

I don't at all understand which server I should be on here. Nor what the implications of that choice is. I chose mastodon.social because that is where my friends were heading. If anyone has advice for me please contact me directly (and that makes me realize that I don't know how to do this on this platform....).

Well gosh. As I interpret it we saw two stable geniuses come have public meltdowns showing their limits of geniusness. But I don't think that either of them realize how they are burning down their legacies and limiting their future business opportunities. Yes Trump and Musk.

Thorough story on FSD in a neighborhood where Tesla's CEO has sent engineers to solve previous failures noted by the car owner. Appears to be at about one 9 to my eye. Needs to be at about six 9s to be trusted. Each 9 is ten times harder than the previous. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/11/14/technology/tesla-self-driving-flaws.html

In my blog today I ask where are all the eVTOL #evtol videos that we should expect to see if air taxis are coming anytime soon. https://rodneybrooks.com/where-are-the-crewed-evtol-videos/

#ai #robotics I have collected links to all the things I have written for IEEE Spectrum over the last decade or so: https://rodneybrooks.com/my-ieee-spectrum-columns-and-articles/

#introductions Hello everyone. I post about the reality of AI and robotics. I wrote a (really bad) Masters thesis on Machine Learning over 45 years ago, and a computer vision PhD in 1981 at Stanford. I was director of the MIT AI Lab (following Marvin Minsky and Patrick Winston) then the founding director of MIT CSAIL. I have cofounded six startups since 1984, including iRobot. See some of my writings about distinguishing AI hype from reality at rodneybrooks.com/blog -- I am an AI lifer.