Rodney Brooks on Artificial Intelligence

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🗓️ 24 September 2018

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Rodney Brooks, emeritus professor of robotics at MIT, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the future of robots and artificial intelligence. Brooks argues that we both under-appreciate and over-appreciate the impact of innovation. He applies this insight to the current state of driverless cars and other changes people are expecting to change our daily lives in radical ways. He also suggests that the challenges of developing truly intelligent robots and technologies will take much longer than people expect, giving human beings time to adapt to the effects. Plus a cameo from Isaac Newton.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Econ Talk, part of the Library of Economics and Liberty.
0:08.0	I'm your host, Russ Roberts of Stanford University's Hoover Institution.
0:12.6	Our website is econtalk.org where you can subscribe, comment on this podcast, and find
0:17.6	links and other information related to today's conversation.
0:20.5	We'll also find our archives where you can listen to every episode we've ever done going
0:24.8	back to 2006.
0:27.0	Our email address is mailadycontalk.org.
0:29.0	We'd love to hear from you.
0:30.8	Today is August 30, 2018, and my guest is Rodney Brooks.
0:37.4	He is the Panasonic Professor of Robotics, emeritus at MIT.
0:42.2	His robotics entrepreneur, founder, chairman, and chief technology officer, rethink robotics.
0:47.7	And former director of the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and then the MIT Computer
0:52.6	Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.
0:56.1	And welcome to Econ Talk.
0:57.1	Thanks for having me on.
0:59.2	Our topic for today is Artificial Intelligence, AI, based on an extremely insightful article
1:04.2	you wrote last year for the MIT Technology Review, which we will link to, the seven deadly
1:09.3	sins of AI predictions, and we may get into other issues as well along the way.
1:14.4	I want to start with Amara's Law, and I may be mispronouncing Amara Amara.
1:20.3	You write, Roy Amara was a co-founder of the Institute for the Future in Palo Alto, the
1:24.4	intellectual heart of Silicon Valley.
1:26.5	He is best known for his adage now referred to as Amara's Law.
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