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CSA SPEAKER BULLETIN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
BAYUT2O0N2 0O…MORUSE ATLALXYIS?
Rodney Brooks
Rodney Brooks is Professor of zero. Count & retweet this then. off that capability at this time. Again,
Robotics (emeritus) at MIT. He hardly autonomous, even if they were
is a robotics entrepreneur and I think these three criteria need to be to meet that goal. Imagine having
most recently was Founder, met before someone can say that we a breakdown of your car that you
Chairman and CTO of Rethink have autonomous taxis on the road. are driving once every 13 miles - we
Robotics. Brooks is looking for expect better.
the holy grail of robotics – one The first challenge, no human
that can figure things out for safety driver, has not been met by a And if normal human beings can’t
itself, like humans do. single experimental deployment of simply use these services and go
autonomous vehicles on public roads anywhere that they can go in a
When I saw someone tweeting anywhere in the world. They all have current day taxi, then really the things
that Musk had made safety humans in the vehicle. A few deployed will not be autonomous
weeks ago I saw an autonomous taxis. They will be something else.
comments stating that a shuttle trial along the paved Calling them taxis would be redefining
beachside public walkways at the what a taxi is. And if you can just
million autonomous taxis would be on beach on which I grew up, in Glenelg, redefine words on a whim there is
South Australia, where there were really not much value to your words.
the road by 2020, I tweeted out the “two onboard stewards to ensure
everything runs smoothly” along with I am clearly sceptical about seeing
following: eight passengers. autonomous cars on our roads in the
next few years. In the long term I am
Let’s count how many truly Today’s demonstrations are just not enthusiastic. But I think it is going to
autonomous (no human safety driver) autonomous. In fact Uber’s target is to take longer than most people think.
Tesla taxis (public chooses destination have their safety drivers intervene only
& pays) will be on regular streets once every 13 miles, but they are way
(unrestricted human driven cars on the
same streets) on December 31, 2020.
It will not be a million. My prediction:
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