From mid-2021 to mid-2022 Rodney Brooks wrote 12 monthly columns.
Unresolvable The public record could not settle it.
Factual: Statements about the present or the past, checked against the record: did they hold up?
What would count as true or false
Test: Brooks wrote 12 monthly columns in IEEE Spectrum spanning about mid-2021 to mid-2022. True: IEEE Spectrum's archive lists 12 columns by Brooks published monthly over roughly that period. Mostly true: the series is in IEEE Spectrum and ran over roughly that period, but the count is off by one, or the start or end month is shifted slightly. Mixed: the columns exist, but the count or the period differs substantially (for example 8 to 10 columns, or a clearly different year span). Mostly false: Brooks wrote only a few columns there, or the columns appeared in a different publication. False: no such column series by Brooks exists.
Set before the research began.
Evidence (6)
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E1 Rodney Brooks IEEE Spectrum · 6 August 2024
“A small band of believers triumphed after years of quietly plugging away 16 Jun 2022”
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E2 Rodney Brooks IEEE Spectrum · 6 August 2024
“It’s no wonder the tech centibillionaires are building rockets 17 May 2022”
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E3 An Inconvenient Truth About AI IEEE Spectrum · 29 September 2021
“This article appears in the October 2021 print issue as "A Human in the Loop."”
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E4 How Efficient Is Your EV? It’s Complicated IEEE Spectrum · 2 August 2021
“Personally, I won't miss the smell of nitromethane at all.”
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E5 An Inconvenient Truth About AI IEEE Spectrum · 29 September 2021
“This article appears in the October 2021 print issue as "A Human in the Loop."”
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E6 The Coming Construction Boom IEEE Spectrum · 16 February 2022
“This article appears in the March 2022 print issue as “Building Boom.””
Reasoning
IEEE Spectrum pages show Brooks pieces in the October 2021 print issue (E3, E5) and the March 2022 print issue (E6). His author page lists pieces dated 17 May 2022 (E2) and 16 June 2022 (E1), and an August 2021 article may also be his (E4). This confirms a Spectrum series in roughly the stated period, but the evidence shows at most five pieces and gives no total, so it cannot establish whether there were 12 monthly columns.
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Rodney Brooks, “From mid-2021 to mid-2022 Rodney Brooks wrote 12 monthly columns.” (said 4 November 2022). Verdict: unresolvable. Reliability API, claim c_165b80ca5340, method 0.1.0+c876030c, dataset release v1.1.2. https://epistacklabs.com/claims/c_165b80ca5340
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More factual claims by Rodney Brooks
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Mostly true
“But no, I had no idea it would be LLMs at the time of my correct prediction that something big would appear.”
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Mostly true
“I have spent my whole professional life developing robots and my companies have built more of them than anyone else”
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Resolved true
“I bought my first electric car this year.”
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Mixed
“they are safe in the presence of humans.”
The warehouse mobile robots built by Brooks's current startup are safe in the presence of humans.
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Mostly true
“I have reported about particular rides, that I or others have taken, when I think that the vehicles have done something for which a human driver would somehow be sanctioned if they had done the same…”
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