Rodney Brooks
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Rodney Brooks is a recurring person in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between March 21, 2022 and July 25, 2023. The archive places it in contexts such as “AI researcher Rodney Brooks grades his AI-related predictions from 2018”; “In Rodney Brooks’ famous term, they were “ computational bigots ”“. It most often appears alongside OpenAI, ACX 2022 Prediction Contest Data, ACX Grants.
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- Category: People
- Mention count: 2
- Issue count: 2
- First seen: March 21, 2022
- Last seen: July 25, 2023
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Related Pages
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- OpenAI (2 shared issues)
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- ACX 2022 Prediction Contest Data (1 shared issues)
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- ACX Grants (1 shared issues)
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- AI (1 shared issues)
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- Albert Einstein (1 shared issues)
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- Almaty (1 shared issues)
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- Arnold Schwarzenegger (1 shared issues)
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- Aver (1 shared issues)
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- Beethoven (1 shared issues)
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- Beware Isolated Demands For Rigor (1 shared issues)
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- CFTC (1 shared issues)
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Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.
1: AI researcher Rodney Brooks grades his AI-related predictions from 2018.
Inline links: grades his AI-related predictions from 2018
All through the 00s and 10s, belief in “intelligence” was a whipping boy for every sophisticated AI scientist. The way to build hype was to accuse every other AI paradigm except yours of believing in “cognition” or “intelligence”, a mystical substance that could do anything, whereas your new AI paradigm realized that what was really important was emotions / embodiment / metaphor / action / curiosity / ethics . Therefore, it was time to reject the bad old AI paradigms and switch to yours. This announcement was usually accompanied by discussion of how belief in “intelligence” was politically suspect, or born of the believer’s obsession with signaling that they were Very Intelligent themselves. In Rodney Brooks’ famous term, they were “computational bigots”.
Inline links: computational bigots