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ROBOTICS AND AI
IS ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
THE SOLUTION FOR
TOMORROW’S WORLD?
Dr Rodney Brooks
Apopular meme in both the Artificial Intelligence and deep
press and populist politics learning are helping robots get
is that automation is eating better at physical tasks, and hence
the jobs of the working class. While helping automation. But we tend
there is disruption in some industries, to overestimate just what AI and
we see in Europe, North America, learning algorithms can achieve in
Japan, and now China, a shortage the short term of the next decade or
of labor for many manual jobs. With two. Current technologies are good
pressures against immigration, at classification tasks and in learning
rising educational and aspirational patterns in certain classes of data
levels, and a demographic shift to (e.g. in continuous signals such as
older workers, neither increases from a microphone, a temperature
in wages nor today's operational sensor, or an electrical current meter),
automation is enough to fill the gaps but not in some others (e.g. there
that are opening. With our aging are still challenges in understanding
populations we are going to be faced complex three dimensional
with productivity crises across food relationships, something that is
production, manufacturing, fulfillment important for robotics).Thus over the
operations, and in elder care itself. last five years we have seen enormous
There lie incredible opportunities for progress in speech interfaces, in
those who can match today's barely optimizing advertisement selection,
adequate technologies to practical and in operating an automobile under
business models. reasonably steady conditions.
What people generally do not
appreciate is that each of our AI
systems is a point solution, an idiot
savant that has no knowledge of how
its task is part of a bigger system,
nor when it could or should be flexible
in working with other unknown-to-it
components of the big picture. The
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