“I think it's very easy for people who are not deep in the technology itself to make generalizations, which may be a little dangerous. And we've certainly seen that recently with Elon Musk, Bill Gates, Stephen Hawking, all saying AI is just taking off and it's going to take over the world very quickly. And the thing that they share is none of them work in this technological field.” PeopleThinkingWorldMayLittlesEasyTechnologyShareDangerousFieldsBillsGatesTechnologicalGeneralizationMusk Author:Rodney Brooks
“If we are machines, then in principle at least, we should be able to build machines out of other stuff, which are just as alive as we are.” IfsShouldAbleStuffPrinciplesTechnologyAliveMachines Author:Rodney Brooks
“Two big questions that people ask me are: if we make these robots more and more human-like, will we accept them - will they need rights eventually? And the other question people ask me is, will they want to take over?” PeopleIfsWantNeedsHumansTwoBigsInspirationMotivationAsksAcceptingTechnologyRightsAsk MeRobotsBig Questions Author:Rodney Brooks
“When I look out in the future, I can't imagine a world, 500 years from now, where we don't have robots everywhere.” WorldYearsLooksI CanTechnologyImagineRobots Author:Rodney Brooks
