On: Artificial intelligence.

Episode: N/A

Date: September 2018

Background: Emeritus professor of robotics at MIT.

Key Subjects:

• Future of robots and artificial intelligence.
• Brooks argues that we both under-appreciate and over-appreciate the impact of innovation.
• He applies this insight to the current state of driverless cars and other changes people are expecting to change our daily lives in radical ways.
• He also suggests that the challenges of developing truly intelligent robots and technologies will take much longer than people expect, giving human beings time to adapt to the effects.

Key Takeaways:

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Worth Listening:

Knowledgeable and useful antidote to discussion on the dangers of out-of-control AI.

8/10.