Rodney Brooks
Primarily Robotics and AI. Distinguishing hype-notism from plausibility one press release at a time. rodneybrooks.com/blog people.csail.mit.edu/brooks
- On Jan 18 I skeeted about people mushing 4 different timescales together as one and getting confused about what AI/Robotics milestones will happen when. Since then I have included this slide in two talks filling out the details, with instances of the four scales.
- Merging xAI with SpaceX is not good for US capability in space. Argument is SpaceX will launch 1TW of electricity producing solar + data centers (modulo unsolved thermal physics) per year, on a so far 11 flight rocket that has not gotten to orbit. US needs Falcon 9 to be stable workhorse. Danger.
- Looks like Blue Origin is serious (as I discussed in my Jan 1st annual tech analysis) about leap frogging SpaceX to land humans on the Moon first, and this story also confirms their intention for an uncrewed lunar landing in 2026. www.space.com/space-explor...
