ClaimsRodney Brooks

“Pendant toute notre vie, nous verrons de plus en plus de collaboration avec les machines ; je ne pense pas que les robots des cinquante prochaines années, ou même des cents prochaines années, pourront tout faire.”

Rodney Brooks, interviewee 16 December 2014 Interview de Rodney Brooks à Paris : Robots collaboratifs, Rethink Robotics et Baxter (Shy Robotics)

Prediction AI, the economy and work

Brooks said he did not think robots over the next fifty, or even a hundred, years would be able to do everything, and that people would see more and more collaboration with machines during their lifetimes.

Not yet due The date it refers to has not come.

Prediction: Statements about events outside the person's control, checked once they fell due: did they come true?

Reasoning

deadline 2064 is after 2026-11-04

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Rodney Brooks, “Brooks said he did not think robots over the next fifty, or even a hundred, years would be able to do everything, and that people would see more and more collaboration with machines during their lifetimes.” (said 16 December 2014). Verdict: not yet due. Reliability API, claim c_425d5960bc26, method 0.1.0+c876030c, dataset release v1.1.2. https://epistacklabs.com/claims/c_425d5960bc26

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