ClaimsRodney Brooks

“And we won’t have cars that can tell nuns from robbers”

Rodney Brooks, blog author 12 January 2017 Unexpected Consequences of Self Driving Cars (rodneybrooks.com) archived copy

Prediction AI capabilities

We will not have cars that can tell nuns from robbers, a point made right after saying that robot perception today and in the foreseeable future cannot work out the state of the world well enough.

Unresolvable The public record could not settle it.

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

Reasoning

Open-ended prediction with no horizon and loosely defined.

Cite this claim

Rodney Brooks, “We will not have cars that can tell nuns from robbers, a point made right after saying that robot perception today and in the foreseeable future cannot work out the state of the world well enough.” (said 12 January 2017). Verdict: unresolvable. Reliability API, claim c_cfe915394b9f, method 0.1.0+c876030c, dataset release v1.1.2. https://epistacklabs.com/claims/c_cfe915394b9f

This claim is in dataset release v1.1.2, with the same verdict.

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