2022-03-15 04:40:43 @MelMitchell1 @tdietterich His PhD thesis was a different variety of neural networks. Then he became a member of McCulloch’s posse at RLE/MIT with Stuart Kauffman and many others. And surprisingly McCulloch and Pitts (cf ‘43 paper) were coauthors with posses mems Lettvin and Maturana on Frog’s Eye paper. 2022-03-12 08:11:00 CAFIAC FIX 2022-01-20 03:26:03 RT @0xrandomuser: @rodneyabrooks, you might like this — supercut of @elonmusk promising FSD every year since 2014 https://t.co/HmiW63J6wR v… 2022-01-17 08:11:00 CAFIAC FIX 2022-01-11 08:11:00 CAFIAC FIX 2022-01-04 17:56:10 Thanks @chrismichel for this great photo session. Your portraits make people look better than they do (at least in my case!). And here I am with Genghis (summer of 1988!) on the left. https://t.co/1wUokq9uXJ 2022-01-02 04:59:40 My annual review of my Jan 1st 2018 technology predictions is now posted on my blog. https://t.co/uREg2LLw6Z 2021-12-27 08:20:00 CAFIAC FIX 2021-12-19 20:59:45 RT @ylecun: @rodneyabrooks There are many things on which we agree. That's one of them. 2021-12-19 18:44:03 Careful Yann, you'll start sounding like the younger me! "Elephants Don't Play Chess" (1990): https://t.co/u53qBDyLhO https://t.co/RgsA9S3vv6 2021-12-16 18:22:22 RT @AntonvdH: We've just released 'The Rodney', and IPA brewed from a recipe devised by ML, that we named after Rod Brooks (@rodneyabrooks)… 2021-12-03 16:21:45 @jeffbigham @landay @windx0303 Fair enough. Though of course I was trying to riff off of JFK's "ask not what your country can do for you" line, which led me to use language that gave AI systems agency. 2021-12-03 15:52:23 @jeffbigham @landay @windx0303 Read the article. It is only 650 words. 2021-11-30 07:34:25 This possibility has been worrying me for a while. SpaceX has a real role to play in our future world https://t.co/FAyWODHLX9 2021-11-29 21:34:09 This statement from Stuart has been generally accepted by AI researchers for 65 years already. Meanwhile the clock and the referenced generations have ticked forward 65 years. I expect the same statement will be generally accepted in another 65 years. https://t.co/6BNBptLw5t 2021-11-27 18:54:59 RT @smdiehl: Ever notice how there's a huge disconnect between how the VC thought leader class talks about NFTs and crypto coins, and how y… 2021-11-06 23:20:00 CAFIAC FIX 2021-11-01 19:20:00 CAFIAC FIX 2021-11-01 17:30:00 CAFIAC FIX 2021-08-21 17:05:37 Had the honor of teaching recitations for Sussman and Abelson for the MIT course based on this, fall of 1984, and later as the principal teacher for many semesters in the late 80's and 90's. Today's computer languages would be less incoherent if their designers studied this. https://t.co/cnKC7o1hER 2021-08-21 14:24:13 I meticulously document my predictions, e.g., see the dated predictions section at https://t.co/5DMzJgTPmq, and essays on AI and self driving there, plus many articles in IEEE Spectrum and MIT Technology Review (google them) https://t.co/0mrRLyYDAX for writings back to the 80's. https://t.co/vEhZXDp3Rl 2021-08-20 23:56:17 It's a deal. August 19, 2031. My prediction is that this project will not register at all in any history of the previous ten years. So we'll understand that it was a totally insignificant announcement. https://t.co/Xn1pXk5kG9 2021-08-19 01:03:26 I am actually optimistic about AI 2021-08-19 01:03:25 The fetish that everything should be learned from big data sets rather than developing algorithms for intelligent systems seems like Soviet Lysenkoism where it was believed that all properties of crops were absorbed from the environment. Millions of people starved to death. 1/4 2021-08-17 18:35:12 A pretty good description for the non-specialist on the challenges for Tesla's camera-only approach to driver assist (routinely mis-used for autonomous driving by owners--please do not do this). https://t.co/SfJ7fGOVAn 2021-08-15 16:10:40 This thread lays out where we are with COVID, what we need to do, and what the future will look like. https://t.co/ij5RMaChkh 2021-08-03 15:01:34 My latest column at IEEE Spectrum. https://t.co/fm51rUkX3a 2021-07-26 00:16:37 We can all have hidden talents... https://t.co/qL7aDfi7xp https://t.co/IKGICeXmC2 2021-07-26 00:14:41 @GriffyBones Yep that was me. Andy Gavin, cofounder of Naughty Dog, was a thesis student of mine at MIT at the time. 2021-07-21 19:17:47 Am I misremembering? Wasn't there just a little hype around how OpenAI's approach to robotics was so powerful??? "the market isn't mature enough yet"... perhaps the `problem' is that the market is mature and understands what is valuable and not. https://t.co/cvyFB2lr1W 2021-07-19 17:19:53 .@mitmeche Professor Sangbae Kim who builds the Cheetah robots that rum, jump, and do backflips on why people completely overgeneralize about how far advanced AI and robots are when they see demos. https://t.co/xHmtplO25H 2021-07-15 16:49:26 My new IEEE Spectrum column is out today. This time it is about batteries. https://t.co/ClDVinz8lT 2021-06-29 16:14:51 SoftBank stopped manufacturing Pepper last year. Cute doesn't cut it except for very cheap robots. Robots have to provide value to customers that is more than the price of the robot. And expecting customers to find applications is a losing strategy. https://t.co/OyIgZowPez 2021-05-09 18:18:04 Tesla tells CA DMV that current FSD software is only level 2 (which we all knew). Gives no schedule for levels 3 thru 5. Tesla drivers please take note, for your own safety. H/T Tom Skillman. https://t.co/QHQ6PpFbAg 2021-05-01 17:19:14 Sometimes a few moments of deep thought ahead of spending vast sums of money can lead to insight on what the real technical difficulties might be. Just saying. But you all know that from my blog posts. https://t.co/uU2uWFptvR 2021-04-29 13:34:19 This is a fantastic photograph in so many ways and on so many levels. https://t.co/TYrayosn3x 2021-04-19 14:38:22 The Ingenuity robot helicopter flew on Mars a few hours ago. For romantic roboticists a very stirring aspect was that it carried a part of the Wright brothers' Flyer 1 that carried each of them into the air on December 17, 1903, here on Earth 2021-04-04 01:20:11 This age's biggest technology flub. When the flubber fails to meet the road fortunes will be unmade, jobs will lost, and investors will be hopping mad. Wishing for something to be true, even for a long time, doesn't make it so. https://t.co/bvmbMaaVw9 2021-03-24 04:21:37 I often cringe when I read stories about robots, even from otherwise respectable outlets. But occasionally I start cheering when I see one that is well researched and sensible and informative. Thank you @dalvin_brown @washingtonpost !! Robots in our homes. https://t.co/DnWaCdVSSf 2021-03-12 16:26:35 @pulkitlive @iRobot I last saw them operating in 2014. Not all the originals were still functional. Lots of new robots (from multiple companies) have been purchased over the years. 2021-03-11 01:30:48 It is now March 11 in Japan. Ten years ago today was the earthquake and tsunami which devastated four of six nuclear reactors at Fukushima Daiichi. @iRobot sent six robots used in the shutdown & 2021-03-04 21:55:37 This is a really well reported story from @BotJunkie. Some waffling from the engineer to dance around messaging, trying to claim full autonomy where a reasonable understanding of language says it is not "full autonomy" but something else. The later is OK, but gee, just admit it. https://t.co/jEZGnAsrEi 2021-03-04 19:03:41 Jumbled ideas. Code tree affinities realign. Perfection. [Note: I used zero based indexing to count to six.] https://t.co/FsDr2AXYwZ 2021-03-03 06:36:46 Trolley problem PREvisited. In TV series Civilisation (1969) Kenneth Clark claimed father of science fiction HG Wells said he "dare not drive a car in France, because the temptation to run over a priest would be too great". Looking for a definitive source... 2021-02-18 21:11:36 A good day for robot kind. Perseverance has landed and is sending data from the surface of Mars. 2021-02-15 23:40:20 @larsbrinkhoff Except, maybe that is Victor's copy. Painted white over the black (looking at the wrist). Where is this one? 2021-02-15 23:39:04 @larsbrinkhoff Nope, that is a PUMA. Vicarm was very small, and black. 2021-02-14 22:00:29 New blog post today 2021-02-06 16:53:11 Good description for a general audience of all the work still to be done and challenges to be solved before we can have robotaxis deployed at scale. https://t.co/Rl3jFHuWgq 2021-01-29 01:30:27 Michael Strevens' book The Knowledge Machine about invention of science. Recounts Thales saying everything was made of water & 2021-01-23 18:43:31 A test for the US Senate. "When you're a star you can do anything. They let you do it." 2021-01-22 05:00:14 We got rid of him without using guns. America wins. 2021-01-20 16:49:10 https://t.co/Ba5t1hNPb1 2021-01-17 03:53:44 RT @JoeBiden: Science will be at the forefront of my administration — and this group will ensure everything we do is grounded in science, f… 2021-01-13 04:44:29 The basis of the 2nd amendment is so that citizens can be a militia and fight the federal government. Most of us are repulsed by seeing an attempt at that last week. So why do we need any guns except for hunting and target shooting?? 2021-01-13 04:39:59 RT @helengreiner: #DemoNotProduct, but they will put a robot vacuum on the market later this year with some of the features already in the… 2021-01-11 18:00:24 Milions or Billions? Decades or Centuries? OK, then this is longer than many others are saying, but not such a radical extension of estimates. I'm more on the not in this decade at all end of what Bolle intended to say. https://t.co/reSH8LxW56 2021-01-11 15:27:53 My "pessimistic" predictions about how long it would take to get autonomous taxis are starting to looking shockingly naively optimistic. Perhaps I was swayed by the hype too. A lesson for all of us on susceptibility to charlatans on social media. Who knew? https://t.co/2XH34U1PTr https://t.co/pUuTdc0Hlu 2021-01-10 06:23:35 @csims115 Three US presidents have been impeached by the House. None have been convicted by the Senate. If the House votes for it, Trump will be impeached a second time. Whether he gets convicted for the first time will need 2/3rds of the Senators present. 2021-01-09 05:49:56 This sticker has been on my front door for over a year. I modified it tonight. Because of Covid no one will see it in person, so here it is for all of you. https://t.co/LS85bZhvgj 2021-01-06 21:35:22 Deplorables. 2021-01-01 23:49:51 That is a movie. Not a lab demo. A lab demo would be driving up to a place that had never seen before and having it do the delivery. That would be about 1% of the way towards a real deployment as a functioning business model. https://t.co/PWD39IqvbA 2021-01-01 16:59:38 My annual review of my Jan 1, 2018, predictions for AI& 2020-12-31 18:36:25 I'll address AutoX tomorrow in my annual blog post reviewing my 2018 technology predictions. Watch this twitter stream for when it gets published. https://t.co/HrOsSnRnPY 2020-12-31 02:29:13 So far the only people killed have been those in the Teslas. If people who didn't sign up for it, e.g., occupants of other cars, or pedestrians are killed, it will only take a very small number for autonomous vehicles to be set back for years, including the responsible companies. https://t.co/0jYEKyrIzo 2020-12-31 01:56:49 1/3 Promised to retweet this now. On April 22, 2019, Elon said there would be up to 1 million Tesla robotaxis on the road by now. I said zero. And the answer is ... zero! https://t.co/vEcU1mhPMw 2020-12-28 17:42:32 Of course, I meant 1970. October. https://t.co/gkUM7S5Ab6 2020-12-28 17:35:14 1/2 Great article on Conway and his Game of Life introduced in SciAm by Martin Gardner in 1950. https://t.co/tPjuC0tkf6 2020-12-16 06:33:09 My new blog post on an analogy for the state of AI. (Spoiler: exciting times with great developments coming, but the ultimate prize is unknowably far off.) https://t.co/vPeibT8pKL 2020-12-14 17:39:16 Tom Waits on DL: "We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge 2020-12-10 02:04:21 Great keynote this week at NeurIPS by Charles Isbell @isbellHFh (and 15 guests). Lessons for all of us working in AI or robotics. https://t.co/uSWhOaTlpI 2020-12-09 00:44:24 Thanks for tracking down a real photo, and apologies for spreading one that was wrongly labeled. My words still stand. Be kind to everyone as it is the right thing to do. https://t.co/EGSsWvX07I 2020-12-08 15:44:35 All human beings have incredible potential, even those who do not look or dress like us, come from somewhere else, and are poor. Be kind to everyone, not because of who they might become, or do for you, but because it is the right thing to do. https://t.co/wDJithbfDk 2020-12-08 15:37:26 Thanks @amcafee! And it is not just a human built world, but it's also a built for human world. The way we'll get there is by humans building an autonomous machine environment, just as we had to rebuild our cities, and then freeways, for regular cars a century ago. https://t.co/SifT4jaqEc 2020-12-07 22:06:21 @mlittmancs @CsabaSzepesvari Was making different arguments back then. Here I would argue that without prior structure ML/RL is trying to duplicate both evolution and learning all at once, and is biased against reusable building blocks. Take that as a compliment or criticism as you wish. Spoiler: criticism. 2020-12-07 20:40:40 Now neuroscience has identified the neural structures for both place cells (hippocampus) and grid cells (entorhinal cortex). Neither work anything like RL. 2014 Nobel Prize for this to O’Keefe, Moser, & 2020-12-07 19:12:16 Modern RL applied to robotics is the equivalent of Skinner’s operant conditioning model of human and animal cognition. 2020-11-22 23:56:07 RT @monicabyrne13: I think about this every time I read about an upcoming scifi flick where some feminine-gendered AI "gets out of control"… 2020-11-20 17:33:57 RT @EdwardNorton: I’m no political pundit but I grew up w a dad who was a federal prosecutor & 2020-11-07 16:35:59 Hallelujah!!! 2020-11-06 15:51:27 RT @helengreiner: Thanks to machine-learning algorithms, the robot apocalypse was short-lived... https://t.co/Kc6uuDtVLL 2020-11-05 02:11:41 RT @DorsaSadigh: Bay Area Robotics Symposium (BARS) will be happening on Nov 20 this year: https://t.co/qU6j4n11FT . We will have a series… 2020-11-04 10:52:40 Yep, that was my setting, though I'm sure I never consciously chose it to be that way. Have flipped it. Thanks for figuring this out! https://t.co/eCcv9AKKOi 2020-11-03 13:50:12 Science and Engineering. We (humanity) just talked to Voyager 2 for the first time since March. At the speed of light, 17 hours to get to Voyager and 17 hours back. 11.6 billion miles. https://t.co/vxNVvmMDon 2020-11-01 04:58:44 @isbellHFh OK, late last millennium then. Does that work for you? I know I remember it. 2020-10-31 23:32:14 We built a wet lab in the MIT AI lab late last century. Then new ones in 2003. Here's my 2004 report, as director of CSAIL, on synthetic biology that was going on under the guidance of Tom Knight--cofounder of Ginkgo Bioworks. https://t.co/PhGcMZFaeT 2020-10-31 06:07:46 @ariel_anders Oh, oh, oh. I am speechless. Oh. 2020-10-31 04:24:12 It must be hard to be such a genius amongst mere mortals. "President Donald Trump on Friday repeatedly claimed that Democratic vice presidential candidate Kamala Harris does not know how to pronounce her name correctly" https://t.co/soZ1N9bHkd 2020-10-29 22:40:31 People underestimate how long it takes to get from academic paper to real world robotics. 25 years on Disney is using my subsumption architecture for humanoid eye control, better and smoother now than our 1995 implementations on Cog and Kismet. https://t.co/0ypSrCHJCG 2020-10-29 16:02:42 Will Bridewell has likened #gpt3 to a ouija board. I think that is a very apt interpretation of how it is being used. Of course an actual ouija board is way cheaper! https://t.co/Elu217tzcA 2020-10-28 16:52:08 Our company is growing, we are hiring. We are making robots useable everywhere. https://t.co/GIw8y1iEOC 2020-10-28 16:20:12 RT @amyfeldman: Startup https://t.co/3jVATghzsb, founded by cognitive scientist @GaryMarcus + roboticist @rodneyabrooks, raises $15M to mak… 2020-10-24 16:16:13 RT @chr1sa: This thread is full of good example videos of Tesla's new Full Self Driving mode failing at night, where the limits of using ca… 2020-10-22 16:24:39 RT @GaryMarcus: anybody who thinks Tesla’s Autopilot stats are good should really read this carefully: 2020-10-20 04:28:30 My 16 month old grandson in his 1st hour in new house that he and his parents are moving into. 2 hands, 2 completely different affordances, one for each hand, recognized & 2020-10-18 00:14:03 RT @ProfessorGutian: Now THIS is a real trolley problem https://t.co/SO0uYnnHDr 2020-10-09 17:33:20 And ten years exactly the same number of autonomous vehicles as then have been deployed in general settings. [Some of us recall the first public highway demonstrations in Bavaria in 1987.] https://t.co/IBHj2TE9Lu 2020-10-08 05:18:45 This political ad says so many things about Joe Biden. It also is a powerful reminder of the power of role models. Thank you Kamala Harris. https://t.co/U5MpSLeAlF 2020-10-02 06:56:34 I wonder if this time Pence will be able to remember whether or not he was informed about it. 2020-10-02 05:12:56 This is where we are in the post truth world. Does he really have Covid or not? I dunno! https://t.co/OVRh1cpgjI 2020-09-30 03:25:43 #bully #loser #whitesupremicist 2020-09-29 16:34:56 RT @isbellHFh: Allow me please to express my frustration at how “women” almost always means “White women (and no one else because let’s fac… 2020-09-28 04:12:26 RT @waltmossberg: This may be Biden’s best ad. Short and crystal clear. No rhetoric. https://t.co/DbsKr41uWT 2020-09-27 18:24:32 NeurIPS papers. Tulips. It may be late January 1637, or even very early February. 2020-09-22 07:00:57 This is what has always made America great. Leonard Bernstein introduces a seven year old immigrant to a Democratic President and an immediate past Republican President in 1962. We are a nation of immigrants. https://t.co/PcTYC3Gqd6 2020-09-20 18:51:35 @sarahookr "introduces ... hardware lottery to describe when a research idea wins because it is suited to the available SW and HW & https://t.co/cwvlyBOtSA 2020-09-14 16:23:15 The demographic inversion is unevenly distributed but coming to a country near you before all that long. "Serbia may have more pensioners than working-age people by next year": https://t.co/AExaf5SkBq 2020-09-05 18:46:38 @Cit_AI1 Winter is not initiated by the players. It is a decision made by the patrons of the games. 2020-09-04 16:52:34 Winter warning from Luciano @Floridi. https://t.co/o8Lv9Bq8Xs 2020-09-03 23:44:56 Our so called president: Americans Who Died in War Are ‘Losers’ and ‘Suckers’ [The president has repeatedly disparaged the intelligence of service members, and asked that wounded veterans be kept out of military parades] https://t.co/MkMJHtmxCb 2020-09-03 16:41:55 RT @GaryMarcus: . @openAI in a nutshell: Feb 2019: GPT is “too dangerous to release” 2020-09-01 02:43:28 Shouldn't we be calling it "antisocial distancing"? 2020-08-30 18:03:53 My take on the "show" was updated form factors for things that have been widespread successful lab experiments for a long time, and no advances in actual interpretability of signals to or from the brain. But plenty of hype. https://t.co/6cds2uPdXw 2020-08-29 16:53:45 RT @Grady_Booch: “Musk did not present any scientific data to support his claims about the pigs or the devices.” 2020-08-28 03:58:21 Tonight we saw the world’s greatest con man attempting once again the biggest con seen. His GOP enablers have declared that they do not care that they have sold their souls. Some of us still believe in truth and analytic reasoning rather than sycophancy. Nov 3 is coming. 2020-08-26 19:43:33 This is the best analysis of the trolley problem that I have seen. https://t.co/r6COPORybx 2020-08-19 04:47:57 RT @DanRather: Joe Biden now has Colin Powell and Cindy McCain speaking for him at the Democratic Convention. But Donald Trump has the gun… 2020-08-18 22:15:54 Shooting fish in a barrel. Roy Amara: we overestimate technology in the short run and underestimate it in the long run. For AVs short run = 30+ years. Even 12mph in sleepy environments is still really tough and on a failing trajectory for real adoption. https://t.co/J3X2CqpMVB 2020-08-17 16:13:48 Cory Doctorow (SciFi writer) on autonomous vehicles. (Spoiler alter: he thinks they are bad SciFi.) https://t.co/IeIwTn5gIU 2020-08-14 14:16:17 No 1 for 1 drop in. I've been saying for years that for autonomous vehicles to be adopted we will need to change our road infrastructure (just as we have for all transport innovations over the last two centuries). We are starting to see it happen: https://t.co/n2lT4TkKHF 2020-08-04 17:19:31 AI for $200: Watson What was the GPT-3 of 2011? AI for $400: Deep Blue ... 2020-08-04 04:08:59 @earnmyturns Of course there are differences... it is 64 years later. Shannon and McCarthy use an in principle argument, without saying how it is built. They think it would have to be impractically large, but I doubt they were imagining 175B parameters was possible. I stand by my description. 2020-08-04 01:07:17 6/7 This volume is a gem. Does not use the words `Artificial Intelligence' but includes a revised chapter of Minsky's Ph.D. thesis on neural networks and in the very first paragraph of the volume's introduction (pg v), Shannon and McCarthy say: 2020-08-04 01:06:01 2/7 `Such a machine, in a sense, for any given input situation (including past history) merely looks up in a "dictionary" the appropriate response. With a suitable dictionary such a machine would surely satisfy Turing's definition but... 2020-08-04 01:06:00 1/7 It is good to be aware of the literature. Shannon and McCarthy describe a `neural network' doing what GPT-3 does in their intro (pg vi) to Automata Studies, Princeton University Press, 1956. 2020-08-03 15:59:49 Today a short and whimsical blog post on how quickly accepted wisdom in science changes, along with suggestions of upcoming radical scientific reorientations. I view them as possibilities rather than probabilities. https://t.co/wJoMTAzDVI 2020-07-31 00:59:06 This Nike ad is a technological tour de force which shows the impact of research in computer vision over the last fifty years. And the message is pretty damn powerful too. https://t.co/USYoE1TLjb 2020-07-27 05:06:51 Oh dear. Such a builder. https://t.co/JamJyE8bRk 2020-07-25 23:16:56 Good 20 minute piece on state of Tesla sef driving technology, out today from #CNBC. https://t.co/TwxdIYIapl 2020-07-19 21:22:04 RT @lessin: Ever since it turned out self-driving cars were going to be at least 10+ years behind claimed schedule, Silicon Valley has been… 2020-07-18 07:51:49 Rename the bridge. #JohnLewis 2020-07-18 07:46:53 RT @DennisWAlpert: Rename the bridge. #JohnLewis https://t.co/WXe9QNs0e8 2020-07-17 05:03:59 That's funny, I can't help but feel like GPT-3 is a way smaller deal than the hypnotists think. But then, I've never claimed to understand AI. https://t.co/ruJbBjOx8c 2020-07-15 07:51:24 3/3 Our president in the Rose Garden 7/14/2020: ... if they brought them back by airplanes. They wouldn’t let the buses into their country. They said we don’t want them. Said no, but they entered our country illegally and they’re murderers, they’re killers in some cases. 2020-07-15 07:51:23 1/3 Our president in the Rose Garden 7/14/2020: We have great agreements where when Biden and Obama used to bring killers out, they would say don’t bring them back to our country, we don’t want them. Well, we have to, we don’t want them. They wouldn’t take them. 2020-07-15 03:49:32 These are real tweets. [It is getting harder and harder to tell...] https://t.co/kd2OQ1MPc6 2020-07-13 01:58:19 @chr1sa Speaking of which, were did you get that slogan on your your hobby site? Brooks, R. A. and A. M. Flynn "Fast, Cheap and Out of Control: A Robot Invasion of the Solar System", Journal of the British Interplanetary Society, October 1989, pp. 478–485. Gotta love the journal name! 2020-07-09 18:51:35 What Elon says here is false. We will not have level 5 autonomous cars on our roads in 2020. It will not happen. https://t.co/b3CcnKE3Tb 2020-07-09 17:11:43 RT @JonnyGeller: One of the most effective political ads I’ve ever seen. https://t.co/Frj4lFacDJ 2020-07-06 20:28:00 3/3 Opens: There was excitement the first time too. In the 1960s & 2020-07-06 20:27:00 2/2 Smith distinguishes `reckoning' and `judgment'. Recking is what today's AI systems are good at and will have enormous scientific and economic impact. And will surpass human capability. Judgment has not begun to be worked on but is critical for real intelligence. 2020-07-06 20:26:00 1/3 Strongly recommend Brian Cantwell Smith's optimistic "The Promise of Artificial Intelligence: Reckoning and Judgment", MIT Press 2019, for all who have aspirations of building or predicting AGI. Much easier (though still deeply intellectual) read than his previous writings. 2020-06-29 22:40:14 "there is a case to be made that the Roomba is the most underrated tech object of the 21st century ... The Roomba was never the center of attention. It just sort of whirred into our peripheral vision — and never left." Real changes can creep up on you. https://t.co/ZUhovRu1bP 2020-06-29 05:27:04 I bought my copy in 1977. It was cheaper then! $5.50 Only just read this chapter for the first time today. https://t.co/nUvnfFGtNH 2020-06-29 05:09:01 Good analysis of upcoming robots 2020-06-28 08:00:36 Professional sports returned Saturday. The national anthem, live on CBS, first time women's soccer has been broadcast live in the US, both teams wearing BLM T-shirts, and all members of both teams taking a knee for BLM. #BunkerBoy has lost his attempt to divide on this. https://t.co/69QCqK2X7x 2020-06-26 04:15:30 In my 1981 computer vision PhD defense John McCarthy, namer of AI, took umbrage that I did not know the cross ratio in projective geometry, saying we would talk about it in the private session--scared me almost to death. Today I learned that his PhD was on projective geometry. 2020-06-25 09:14:50 @cm_richards @KarlaParussel Been right for 40 years in pushing back that success is just around the corner. Eventually I will be wrong. See 32 years of predictions w/ yearly evaluations, 2 years in, 30 years to go. I'm a large scale doer, but a realist. https://t.co/yprvZn9yG0 2020-06-25 08:46:04 @cm_richards @KarlaParussel It may. But my bet is that will be at least 30 such leaps. And such leaps, if we look at all of human history, including the last 55 years of Moore's law and incredible increases in human capital working on the problems, is the leaps come about once every ten years. So 300 years. 2020-06-25 07:09:51 @ArtsolitNox 300, but I am an optimist. 2020-06-25 07:06:54 As you know Chris, we are nowhere near AGI. Those who deploy physical machines in the real world know that. My companies have deployed millions more robots than anyone else, in five domains. I wrote theses on ML in 1977 and computer vision in 1981. It is a long game. Work hard! https://t.co/l4BuQUBGG3 2020-06-23 21:37:08 Yann, I too am an immigrant, scientist, academic, liberal, atheist, but not a Frenchman. I have created multi $B industries in the US, including in defense. They employ vast numbers of people. They help keep America great. https://t.co/XrJSvvAkVd 2020-06-20 06:22:52 RT @PreetBharara: Why does a president get rid of his own hand-picked US Attorney in SDNY on a Friday night, less than 5 months before the… 2020-06-13 15:36:31 My grandson is turning one year old. Compared to a six year old he is bad at manipulation, but compared to any ML/RL trained AI system he is a dexterity superstar, with a wide variety of strategies and skills he applies to novel situations. He is just a regular human kid. 2020-06-12 17:29:34 Seven part article on challenges facing AI: Today’s “ai summer” is different from previous ones. It is brighter and warmer, because the technology has been so widely deployed. Another full-blown winter is unlikely. But an autumnal breeze is picking up. https://t.co/EFKG9m1B6Q 2020-06-09 23:46:30 Our so called President is bat shit crazy. The correspondent he watched, Kristian Rouz, used to report for Sputnik a Kremlin backed news organization, and has been accused by intelligence services of interfering in our 2016 election. Looks like Rouz is at it again. And winning. https://t.co/0Oq9Zjs5n2 2020-06-09 17:05:05 @tdietterich And Australia. Just saying... 2020-06-08 22:43:43 This is a long and very worthwhile read. Ezra Klein interviewing Ta-Nehisi Coates. https://t.co/s3O1yxoUGg 2020-06-08 03:00:20 Jeff Bezos replying to a customer complaining that Amazon supports Black Lives Matter. This is good and fair and firm. Well said. https://t.co/TmcdaFATZq 2020-06-03 22:19:38 General James Mattis: We must reject and hold accountable those in office who would make a mockery of our Constitution. https://t.co/R8IQptk5QG 2020-06-03 04:55:46 @tdietterich Tom, next time we see each other I'll tell you a story about spatially nearby rain gauges and analyzing 100 years of data from them at the Australian weather bureau in December 1973--too long for twitter, but an instructive experience in a summer job I had back then. --Rod 2020-06-02 23:33:56 @raja_chatila @sd_marlow Ah, good point Raja (hello!). Yes, the truck probably moved along quite a distance between tipping and stoping, and so could well have deposited stuff on the road back there. 2020-06-02 20:16:32 @sd_marlow I interpret that touch of the brakes to seeing the truck driver standing on the road in the path of the Tesla, getting out of the way 2020-06-02 18:26:50 RT @GaryMarcus: In solidarity with those seeking justice and equality, and in memory of George Floyd, @RobustAI is closed for the day. 2020-06-02 15:32:52 RT @clairecmc: Is this a joke? There were police and Secret Service everywhere. They moved a peaceful crowd with tear gas and rubber bullet… 2020-06-02 13:16:34 June 1st, Taiwan, Tesla 3 apparently on autopilot slamming into an overturned truck right in its path. English version and original Chinese report from Taiwan. https://t.co/7VcGSTB8Df https://t.co/QgyOVsqhK8 2020-06-02 02:24:17 4/2 CNN: "There is an intense desire for local law enforcement to be in charge," a defense official said, alluding to the laws that forbid the military from performing law enforcement roles inside the United States. 2020-06-02 02:22:11 3/2 CNN: Defense officials tell CNN there was deep and growing discomfort among some in the Pentagon even before President Donald Trump announced Monday that he is ready to deploy the military to enforce order inside the United States. 2020-06-02 02:16:49 2/2 Peaceful protestors were cleared for that photo op. WAPO: Mayor Muriel Bowser of Washington said the federal police officers’ clearing of peaceful protesters was “shameful” and had made the job of city police officers harder. 2020-06-02 02:14:58 1/2 DC Episcopal Bishop: The president used a Bible, the most sacred text of the Judeo-Christian tradition, and one of the churches of my diocese, without even asking us, as a backdrop for a message antithetical to the teachings of Jesus and everything that our church stands for. 2020-05-30 19:49:07 Congratulations to @spacex and @elonmusk. A great accomplishment! 2020-05-28 05:26:17 America is Great Again! We have killed more of our own citizens than any other country. So many more. We have freedom to kill off our elderly, and we don't even need death panels. And now we can get haircuts! We are so great. I am almost tired of our greatness... 2020-05-23 23:05:30 We all know he thinks he's done a great job, the greatest job. We all know he is delusional. Some of us defend and cover for him. [This is tomorrow's NYT front page.] https://t.co/BDuy1aANkp 2020-05-19 03:45:45 @andyshih_ No, I’m saying that double blind rewards incremental little steps so that is what everyone pre tenure aims for. It becomes a culture of mediocrity. By the time they have tenure they have had radical ideas beaten out of them. 2020-05-18 16:31:08 Many people talking about peer review recently. Just posted a new blog post on my experiences with peer review both as an author and an editor thirty years ago. https://t.co/xiv1P0MFkU 2020-05-18 14:14:15 Max: autonomous cars have been tested on highways since '87. Companies new to it in '16 declared 2020 for deployment as nice round number--w/o a realistic plan. In '20 still need two humans per car--one more than normal driving. COVID used as excuse for failed magical thinking. https://t.co/MIhtsoy3ih 2020-05-17 18:50:34 Special issue of Harvard Data Science Review @theHDSR on COVID-19 https://t.co/rAVDWPt0kl 2020-05-17 16:07:51 RT @SenatorRomney: The firings of multiple Inspectors General is unprecedented without good cause chills the independence essenti… 2020-05-17 16:07:04 RT @DanRather: Watching President Obama’s graduation address tonight I think I finally understand Obamagate. It’s the scandal of having a p… 2020-05-12 05:43:15 RT @DanRather: The president doesn't like answering questions. Especially when those questions are substantive. And especially, it seems, w… 2020-05-07 05:19:01 Husband of key advisor to prez: A sitting president facing a pandemic has busied himself attacking journalists, political opponents, television news hosts and late-night comedians, even deriding a former president who merely called for empathy and unity in response to the virus. 2020-05-07 01:06:03 RT @MIT_CSAIL: We are excited to announce that, effective today, we have decided to change the name of our lab to the MIT Computer Science… 2020-05-04 16:45:29 RT @Grady_Booch: No. https://t.co/6OgwycLKI8 2020-05-03 19:56:01 The article is by Kim Stanley Robinson author of [Red | Green | Blue] Mars trilogy. And he follows this para with "We are individuals first, yes, just as bees are, but we exist in a larger social body. Society is not only real 2020-04-28 05:42:53 It's not the Trolley Problem, it's a trolling problem. If you worry about the TP you've been trolled by catastrophists. The TP imagines a situation with 100% outcomes. Real life is not like that. No human has ever faced it. AI systems won't either. Just put the damn brakes on!! 2020-04-19 15:59:26 @arctangentleman Of course. Architectures are something that humans use to design and engineer systems. In evolved systems everything is emergent — we humans choose to describe those systems in terms that we can understand. 2020-04-19 04:25:42 @AlexVasilescu Hi Alex. Without an arm, I think that the first text in the video (claiming it can clear tables) is just a little rich... 2020-04-15 13:39:35 April forty three years ago my master's advisor accidentally lost my handwritten thesis draft on machine learning. There was no copy. I wrote a new version from memory and notes. It was better, but still really quite bad. Now, finally, it occurs to me: perhaps it was no accident. 2020-04-14 02:43:13 @filippie509 is even more acerbic about AI overhype than am I. His blog post from today. Harsh, but fair. DeflAition https://t.co/EB3jY7ZAnD 2020-04-11 17:57:12 A short (for me) new blog post on networks and technology, with particular questions about AI and robotics. https://t.co/WJS6UATyX9 2020-04-07 16:33:11 RT @HemangPurohit: Check out some great talks from the past #ICRA conferences on @ieeeras YouTube channel to learn more about current #robo… 2020-04-06 17:16:15 RT @MelMitchell1: Short essay by me on the COVID-19 analogies we live by (with inspiration from @GeorgeLakoff ), for @sfiscience's Transmis… 2020-04-01 14:12:05 On lockdown in San Francisco it occurs to me that now autonomous vehicles might finally be able to navigate our streets...except for those joggers who have newly decided to run down the middle of empty boulevards to socially distance from sidewalkers. Pesky humans. Again! 2020-03-31 18:09:12 RT @AnnieDuke: "There is a cost to seeking certainty—and in the case of COVID-19 that cost in measured in lives." Wrote this piece with th… 2020-03-29 20:02:31 I've been sheltering in place for a few weeks now. Like many others I'm at home playing video games. Mine are called Emacs and LaTeX. Old school. I hope something interesting comes out of this. [And thank you so much to all the medical professionals working on the front lines!] 2020-03-28 06:12:35 @Nelson_Bridwell Navy hospital ships arrived in New York and LA today. They will take non caronavirus cases from the otherwise overwhelmed hospitals in the cities. That is good. 2001-01-01 01:01:01