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Rodney Brooks

@rodneyabrooks
13 posts
2026-03-03
Data centers are now everywhere and part of critical infrastructure.  They are now targets in wars.  Amazon reports that two of its data centers were hit in the UAE and one in Bahrain overnight.  Having visited data centers recently I suspect repairs will be complicated. www.cnbc.com/2026/03/02/a...
2026-03-03 View on X
CNBC

AWS warns of “unpredictable” Middle East operations after drones “directly struck” two UAE facilities and a drone strike near one of its Bahrain facilities

Amazon Web Services said late Monday two of its data centers in the United Arab Emirates and a facility in Bahrain were damaged by drone strikes, taking the facilities offline.

2025-12-29
1/5 Some humanoid companies are admitting things are harder than the hype suggests.  ‘Billions of dollars are flowing into humanoid robot startups, as investors bet that the industry will soon put humanlike machines in warehouses, factories and our living rooms.’ www.wsj.com/tech/ai/huma...
2025-12-29 View on X
Wall Street Journal

How executives at humanoid robot startups like Agility Robotics and Weave Robotics are managing safety risks and tempering expectations for the technology

Sean McLain / Wall Street Journal :

2025-12-19
A 27 year old nuclear fusion company has just merged (all stock, no cash) with @POTUS own social network and cryptocurrency outfit. There must be a grift here somewhere. Watch for where DOE funding gets redirected. https://www.nytimes.com/...
2025-12-19 View on X
Financial Times

Trump Media agrees to merge with Google-backed fusion energy company TAE in a $6B deal and build the “world's first utility-scale fusion power plant” in 2026

NOTE: Our Forums and CMS and RSS were nixed when our host updated Perl … Liz Hoffman / Semafor : America is becoming the world's dumb money Dominic Preston / The Verge : Trump Medi...

2025-12-07
I think a lot of people saw this coming... users enshittifying the commons until they collapse; now using LLM writing tools.  —  www.wired.com/story/ai-slo...
2025-12-07 View on X
Wired

Some Reddit moderators say a surge of AI slop on the site is eroding its authenticity and could lead to a feedback loop of AI models training on AI content

Reddit is considered one of the most human spaces left on the internet, but mods and users are overwhelmed with slop posts in the most popular subreddits.

2025-12-06
I think a lot of people saw this coming... users enshittifying the commons until they collapse; now using LLM writing tools.  —  www.wired.com/story/ai-slo...
2025-12-06 View on X
Wired

Some Reddit moderators say a surge of AI slop on the site is eroding its authenticity and could lead to a feedback loop of AI models training on AI content

Reddit is considered one of the most human spaces left on the internet, but mods and users are overwhelmed with slop posts in the most popular subreddits. Bluesky: @drsmith , @rodn...

2025-11-03
The origin of the term AGI by @stevenlevy.bsky.social-I have worked in AI for 50 years and still think we were chasing what AGI claims to be chasing.  Meta now chases ASI—Artificial Super Intelligence.  I think we should all be chasing AHI—Artificial Hyper Intelligence. www.wired.com/story/the-ma...
2025-11-03 View on X
Wired

A profile of Mark Gubrud, who coined the term AGI in a 1997 research paper, which argued that breakthrough technologies will redefine international conflicts

Everyone is obsessed with artificial general intelligence—the stage when AI can match all feats of human cognition.

2025-09-28
I have just finished and just published some weekend reading for you. 9,600 words of not easy reading, on why today's humanoid robots won't learn to be dexterous. https://rodneybrooks.com/...
2025-09-28 View on X
Rodney Brooks

iRobot co-founder Rodney Brooks details why humanoid robots won't learn human-level dexterity from current methods, how to make them safe for humans, and more

rodneybrooks.com/why-todays-humanoids- wont-learn-dexterity/  —  In this post I explain why today's humanoid robots will not learn …

2025-03-31
I was a member of the panel that produced this report.  All of us have spent our careers working on AI.  Amongst the hypesters that is probably seen as a disqualification for understanding anything about AI. gizmodo.com/ai-experts-s...
2025-03-31 View on X
Gizmodo

Study: 79% of 475 AI experts believe current public perceptions of AI do not match R&D realities, while 76% said scaling current approaches will not yield AGI

Isaac Schultz / Gizmodo : Source: The Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence .

2023-09-04
First report I have seen of this kind: two @cruise blocking egress for an ambulance contributing to death of patient. [I have personally seen many @cruise blocking roads and other drivers from moving.] This incident was on Aug 14th in SF. https://www.sfgate.com/...
2023-09-04 View on X
New York Times

The San Francisco Fire Department says two Cruise driverless taxis blocked an ambulance carrying a patient who later died at a hospital; Cruise denies any fault

Current “autonomous vehicles” are not actually autonomous.  They still need backup drivers, just now they sit at computer screens instead of in the vehicles.  —  https://www.nytime...

2023-09-03
First report I have seen of this kind: two @cruise blocking egress for an ambulance contributing to death of patient. [I have personally seen many @cruise blocking roads and other drivers from moving.] This incident was on Aug 14th in SF. https://www.sfgate.com/...
2023-09-03 View on X
New York Times

The SF Fire Department says two Cruise driverless taxis blocked an ambulance carrying a patient who later died at a hospital; Cruise claims it was not at fault

Two Cruise taxis delayed an ambulance carrying a car accident victim to a hospital, a department report said.  The company said it was not at fault.

2022-10-27
1/ “Ford said in its third-quarter earnings report released Wednesday that it made a strategic decision to shift its resources to developing advanced driver assistance systems, and not autonomous vehicle technology that can be applied to robotaxis.” https://techcrunch.com/...
2022-10-27 View on X
TechCrunch

Autonomous vehicle startup Argo AI, which raised $2.6B+, is shutting down; sources say parts of the company and some employees would be absorbed by Ford and VW

Argo AI, an autonomous vehicle startup that burst on the scene in 2017 stacked with a $1 billion investment, is shutting down …

2021-05-10
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://www.theverge.com/...
2021-05-10 View on X
The Verge

Memo: California DMV says Tesla is at Level 2 currently after Tesla's head of Autopilot admits that Elon Musk has been exaggerating about “full self-driving”

'Elon's tweet does not match engineering reality'  —  Tesla CEO Elon Musk has been overstating the capabilities …

2020-07-10
What Elon says here is false. We will not have level 5 autonomous cars on our roads in 2020. It will not happen. https://www.bbc.com/...
2020-07-10 View on X
Bloomberg

Elon Musk claims Tesla is “very close” to developing fully autonomous vehicles despite Tesla's “Full Self Driving” feature not living up to its name since 2016

it hasn't Adrian Potoroaca / TechSpot : Elon Musk: Tesla is close to achieving basic level 5 autonomy for its cars VentureBeat : Elon Musk says Tesla is ‘very close’ to level 5 aut...