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Not checkable Rodney Brooks Not checkable 16 Dec 2014 Donc, il doit être plus simple et plus robuste. Rodney Brooks · Not checkable · 16 Dec 2014
Not researched Rodney Brooks Factual 16 Dec 2014 IBM's Watson exploits ideas from 1970s and 1980s AI research that still guide the field today. Rodney Brooks · Factual · 16 Dec 2014 AI capabilities
Not checkable Rodney Brooks Not checkable 16 Dec 2014 Ca ne se passe pas comme dans le cerveau. Rodney Brooks · Not checkable · 16 Dec 2014
Not checkable Rodney Brooks Not checkable 16 Dec 2014 La clé est de les écouter et de comprendre ce dont ils ont besoin. Rodney Brooks · Not checkable · 16 Dec 2014
Unresolvable Rodney Brooks Prediction 16 Dec 2014 Brooks said he thinks the future will be made of collaboration, speaking about factory work and an ageing factory workforce. Rodney Brooks · Prediction · 16 Dec 2014 AI, the economy and work
Not checkable Rodney Brooks Not checkable 16 Dec 2014 Il y a une tension, une bonne tension entre le marketing et les ingénieurs. Rodney Brooks · Not checkable · 16 Dec 2014
Not researched Rodney Brooks Factual 16 Dec 2014 As of 2014, industrial robots still rely on centralized, mainframe-style computing. Rodney Brooks · Factual · 16 Dec 2014 Technology
Own records only Rodney Brooks Factual 16 Dec 2014 Brooks no longer touches the product directly but takes part in prototyping that he shows to the engineers. Rodney Brooks · Factual · 16 Dec 2014 Their own work or organisation
Not checkable Rodney Brooks Not checkable 16 Dec 2014 Lisp, bien sûr ! Rodney Brooks · Not checkable · 16 Dec 2014
Not researched Rodney Brooks Factual 16 Dec 2014 The idea of Brooks's subsumption architecture was to have layers of computation running all the time. Rodney Brooks · Factual · 16 Dec 2014 AI capabilities
Not checkable Rodney Brooks Not checkable 16 Dec 2014 Je ne peux pas m’imaginer que l’on aurait pu utiliser des robots industriels actuels il y a quinze ans. Rodney Brooks · Not checkable · 16 Dec 2014
Not checkable Rodney Brooks Not checkable 16 Dec 2014 Nous sommes très conventionnels. Rodney Brooks · Not checkable · 16 Dec 2014
Mostly true Rodney Brooks Factual 16 Dec 2014 Brooks first presented his 1986 layered-architecture work in France. Rodney Brooks · Factual · 16 Dec 2014 Their own work or organisation
Unresolvable Rodney Brooks Factual 16 Dec 2014 For the Roomba, the target price was chosen first and the design was based on it. Rodney Brooks · Factual · 16 Dec 2014 Economics and markets
Not checkable Rodney Brooks Not checkable 16 Dec 2014 Mais je pense qu’il est un peu exagéré de dire que ce sont des copies précises des neurones d’un cerveau. Rodney Brooks · Not checkable · 16 Dec 2014
Not checkable Rodney Brooks Not checkable 16 Dec 2014 Cette stratégie ne pourrait pas être appliquée à un robot de 100kg de charge utile car la puissance est différente. Rodney Brooks · Not checkable · 16 Dec 2014
Not checkable Rodney Brooks Not checkable 16 Dec 2014 Donc la clé de tout, ce sera de trouver comment les robots et les personnes peuvent travailler ensemble et comment il est possible de… Rodney Brooks · Not checkable · 16 Dec 2014
Not researched Rodney Brooks Factual 16 Dec 2014 The average age of a manufacturing factory worker in the USA is 56. Rodney Brooks · Factual · 16 Dec 2014 AI, the economy and work
Not researched Rodney Brooks Factual 16 Dec 2014 After a competitor's 2002 robot vacuum priced at 2000 euros, a product doing the same for 200 euros (the Roomba) was released and disrupted that competitor. Rodney Brooks · Factual · 16 Dec 2014 Economics and markets
Not checkable Rodney Brooks Not checkable 16 Dec 2014 Les gens ne veulent pas être ennuyés par ce type de question, le nettoyage du sol n’est pas un travail à forte valeur ajoutée. Rodney Brooks · Not checkable · 16 Dec 2014
Not checkable Rodney Brooks Not checkable 16 Dec 2014 Un produit doit, lui, fonctionner à chaque fois. Rodney Brooks · Not checkable · 16 Dec 2014
Own records only Rodney Brooks Factual 16 Dec 2014 Rethink Robotics does not have all of those disciplines (neurobiology, ethology, psychophysics, sociology) but bases its work on user experience. Rodney Brooks · Factual · 16 Dec 2014 Their own work or organisation
Not checkable Rodney Brooks Not checkable 16 Dec 2014 Les gens ne veulent pas de ces emplois. Rodney Brooks · Not checkable · 16 Dec 2014
Mostly true Rodney Brooks Factual 16 Dec 2014 The first industrial robots were installed in 1961, when a computer filled an entire room. Rodney Brooks · Factual · 16 Dec 2014 Technology
Not checkable Rodney Brooks Not checkable 16 Dec 2014 Problème : Personne ne lit les manuels d’utilisation. Rodney Brooks · Not checkable · 16 Dec 2014
Unresolvable Rodney Brooks Factual 16 Dec 2014 Brooks managed to build his first robot at age sixteen. Rodney Brooks · Factual · 16 Dec 2014 Their own work or organisation
Not checkable Rodney Brooks Not checkable 16 Dec 2014 Et donc, là je vois pleinement le rôle que peut jouer une machine qui permet à la personne âgée de garder sa dignité, et contrôler sa vie. Rodney Brooks · Not checkable · 16 Dec 2014
Not researched Rodney Brooks Factual 16 Dec 2014 Baxter's two arms can never collide with each other. Rodney Brooks · Factual · 16 Dec 2014 Technology
Own records only Rodney Brooks Factual 16 Dec 2014 Baxter uses some parts of Brooks's earlier research work, but less intensively than research laboratories do. Rodney Brooks · Factual · 16 Dec 2014 Their own work or organisation
Not researched Rodney Brooks Factual 16 Dec 2014 Rethink Robotics implemented additional functions beyond existing modules for Baxter. Rodney Brooks · Factual · 16 Dec 2014 Technology
Not researched Rodney Brooks Factual 16 Dec 2014 Brooks said he thinks that people such as Minsky, at the time of the perceptrons in the late 1960s, were not very right in their theories because they imposed constraints saying that neural networks could not do all of these things. Rodney Brooks · Factual · 16 Dec 2014 AI capabilities
Not researched Rodney Brooks Factual 16 Dec 2014 In Baxter, the highest-priority low-level tasks check the safety of the hardware. Rodney Brooks · Factual · 16 Dec 2014 AI safety and alignment
Not checkable Rodney Brooks Not checkable 16 Dec 2014 Ils ne sont même pas réellement neuronaux. Ce sont des réseaux ! Rodney Brooks · Not checkable · 16 Dec 2014
Not researched Rodney Brooks Factual 16 Dec 2014 Niche computing markets became dominant with the shift from centralized to autonomous computing. Rodney Brooks · Factual · 16 Dec 2014 Technology
Not checkable Rodney Brooks Not checkable 16 Dec 2014 Je pense qu’en Europe, en Chine, en Amérique du Nord, nous avons vraiment besoin de robots pour prendre soin des personnes âgées car nous… Rodney Brooks · Not checkable · 16 Dec 2014
Not checkable Rodney Brooks Not checkable 16 Dec 2014 Et avec cela arrive la question de la sécurité. Rodney Brooks · Not checkable · 16 Dec 2014
Not checkable Rodney Brooks Not checkable 16 Dec 2014 Tout d’abord, j’utilise l’expression “robots collaboratifs”. Rodney Brooks · Not checkable · 16 Dec 2014
Not checkable Rodney Brooks Not checkable 16 Dec 2014 Je crois que parfois ce que l’on prétend et les généralisations qui sont faites sont simplement surestimés. Rodney Brooks · Not checkable · 16 Dec 2014
Not checkable Rodney Brooks Not checkable 16 Dec 2014 Les robots industriels étaient aveugles et stupides. Rodney Brooks · Not checkable · 16 Dec 2014
Not researched Rodney Brooks Factual 16 Dec 2014 Baxter has integrated software and performs a task after being shown it, unlike conventional industrial robots. Rodney Brooks · Factual · 16 Dec 2014 Technology
Not researched Rodney Brooks Factual 16 Dec 2014 Baxter has a control level that supervises the other levels, comparing forces sensed on each joint with predictions. Rodney Brooks · Factual · 16 Dec 2014 AI safety and alignment
Own records only Rodney Brooks Factual 16 Dec 2014 Many Rethink Robotics factory customers use low-cost 3D printers to print new grippers to replace Baxter's original hands. Rodney Brooks · Factual · 16 Dec 2014 Technology
Not checkable Rodney Brooks Not checkable 16 Dec 2014 Sous bien des aspects, cette voiture est proche du véhicule autonome que l’on imagine pour l’avenir, et cela le rend fiable. Rodney Brooks · Not checkable · 16 Dec 2014
Not checkable Rodney Brooks Not checkable 16 Dec 2014 Donc, on ne doit pas donner à Baxter un air trop intelligent car il n’est pas très intelligent ! Rodney Brooks · Not checkable · 16 Dec 2014
Not researched Rodney Brooks Factual 16 Dec 2014 Baxter is not a very strong robot. Rodney Brooks · Factual · 16 Dec 2014 Technology
Not checkable Rodney Brooks Not checkable 16 Dec 2014 Exactement ! Rodney Brooks · Not checkable · 16 Dec 2014
Not researched Rodney Brooks Factual 16 Dec 2014 Many principles such as machine learning are founded on ideas from 1970s and 1980s AI research. Rodney Brooks · Factual · 16 Dec 2014 AI capabilities
Not checkable Rodney Brooks Not checkable 16 Dec 2014 Et bien, je pense qu’au contraire nous n’aurons jamais suffisamment de robots ! Rodney Brooks · Not checkable · 16 Dec 2014
Not checkable Rodney Brooks Not checkable 16 Dec 2014 Ils sont sériellement anonymes Rodney Brooks · Not checkable · 16 Dec 2014
Not researched Rodney Brooks Factual 16 Dec 2014 The current version of Baxter, made by Rethink Robotics, has no network connection. Rodney Brooks · Factual · 16 Dec 2014 Technology
Not researched Rodney Brooks Factual 16 Dec 2014 Rethink Robotics does not manufacture its robots itself but subcontracts manufacturing. Rodney Brooks · Factual · 16 Dec 2014 Economics and markets
Not checkable Scott Alexander Not checkable 30 Sep 2014 There are a lot of people who say “I forgive you” when they mean “No harm done”, and a lot of people who say “That was unforgiveable” when… Scott Alexander · Not checkable · 30 Sep 2014
Not checkable Scott Alexander Not checkable 30 Sep 2014 Once I’ve written a ten thousand word essay savagely attacking the Blue Tribe, either I’m a very special person or they’re my outgroup. Scott Alexander · Not checkable · 30 Sep 2014
Not checkable Scott Alexander Not checkable 30 Sep 2014 when I boast of being able to tolerate Christians and Southerners whom the Blue Tribe is mean to, I’m not being tolerant at all, just… Scott Alexander · Not checkable · 30 Sep 2014
Not checkable Scott Alexander Not checkable 30 Sep 2014 And my hypothesis, stated plainly, is that if you’re part of the Blue Tribe, then your outgroup isn’t al-Qaeda, or Muslims, or blacks, or… Scott Alexander · Not checkable · 30 Sep 2014
Not checkable Scott Alexander Not checkable 30 Sep 2014 That is how I feel when asked to criticize my own tribe, even for correct reasons. Scott Alexander · Not checkable · 30 Sep 2014
Not researched Scott Alexander Factual 30 Sep 2014 The IAT became a big part of the evidence for the current consensus that all white people are at least a little racist. Scott Alexander · Factual · 30 Sep 2014 Philosophy, ethics and society
Not checkable Scott Alexander Not checkable 30 Sep 2014 Spending your entire life insulting the other tribe and talking about how terrible they are makes you look, well, tribalistic. Scott Alexander · Not checkable · 30 Sep 2014
Not checkable Scott Alexander Not checkable 30 Sep 2014 If you think you’re criticizing your own tribe, and your blood is not at that temperature, consider the possibility that you aren’t. Scott Alexander · Not checkable · 30 Sep 2014
Not checkable Scott Alexander Not checkable 30 Sep 2014 All of this is true, of course. Scott Alexander · Not checkable · 30 Sep 2014
Unresolvable Scott Alexander Factual 30 Sep 2014 The Implicit Association Test is one of the ways we know racism is a giant all-encompassing social factor. Scott Alexander · Factual · 30 Sep 2014 Philosophy, ethics and society
Not checkable Scott Alexander Not checkable 30 Sep 2014 Any theory of outgroupishness that naively assumes the Nazis’ natural outgroup is Japanese or Chinese people will be totally inadequate. Scott Alexander · Not checkable · 30 Sep 2014
Not researched Scott Alexander Factual 30 Sep 2014 In the study, Cohen's d for racial bias was 0.61 (moderate) and for party bias 0.95 (large). Scott Alexander · Factual · 30 Sep 2014 Science and research methods
Not checkable Scott Alexander Not checkable 30 Sep 2014 I can think of criticisms of my own tribe. Important criticisms, true ones. Scott Alexander · Not checkable · 30 Sep 2014
Resolved true Scott Alexander Factual 30 Sep 2014 A recent Implicit Association Test study using political parties found unconscious partisan biases were about 1.5 times as strong as unconscious racial biases. Scott Alexander · Factual · 30 Sep 2014 Science and research methods
Not checkable Scott Alexander Not checkable 30 Sep 2014 Everyone knows exactly who we mean when we say “urban youth”, and them being young people who live in a city has only the most tenuous of… Scott Alexander · Not checkable · 30 Sep 2014
Not checkable Scott Alexander Not checkable 30 Sep 2014 This is sort of how I feel about conservatives. Scott Alexander · Not checkable · 30 Sep 2014
Not checkable Scott Alexander Not checkable 30 Sep 2014 being tolerant makes me see red, makes me sweat blood, but darn it I am going to be tolerant anyway. Scott Alexander · Not checkable · 30 Sep 2014
Unresolvable Scott Alexander Prediction 30 Sep 2014 Scott Alexander said he already expects this post will be used as convenient material to fling at the Blue Tribe. Scott Alexander · Prediction · 30 Sep 2014 Their own work or organisation
Not checkable Scott Alexander Not checkable 30 Sep 2014 So in the same way, political tribes self-segregate to an impressive extent – a 1/10^45 extent, I will never tire of hammering in – based… Scott Alexander · Not checkable · 30 Sep 2014
Not checkable Scott Alexander Not checkable 30 Sep 2014 But it’s weird that it’s such a classic interest of members of the Blue Tribe, and members of the Red Tribe never seem to bring it up. Scott Alexander · Not checkable · 30 Sep 2014
Not checkable Scott Alexander Not checkable 30 Sep 2014 In a way, Russell Brand would have been braver taking a stand against ISIS than against Fox. Scott Alexander · Not checkable · 30 Sep 2014
Not checkable Scott Alexander Not checkable 30 Sep 2014 But I don’t think it’s just genetics. Scott Alexander · Not checkable · 30 Sep 2014
Not checkable Scott Alexander Not checkable 30 Sep 2014 in terms of motivation it comes from the same place as a Red Tribe member talking about how much they hate al-Qaeda or a Blue Tribe member… Scott Alexander · Not checkable · 30 Sep 2014
Unresolvable Scott Alexander Factual 30 Sep 2014 In every US election cycle, liberals give unconvincing denials of the accusation that they are not sufficiently pro-America. Scott Alexander · Factual · 30 Sep 2014 Philosophy, ethics and society
Not checkable Scott Alexander Not checkable 30 Sep 2014 It does seem really possible to denounce ISIS’ atrocities to a population that already hates them in order to weak-man a couple of… Scott Alexander · Not checkable · 30 Sep 2014
Not checkable Scott Alexander Not checkable 30 Sep 2014 But if I want Self-Criticism Virtue Points, criticizing the Grey Tribe is the only honest way to get them. Scott Alexander · Not checkable · 30 Sep 2014
Not checkable Scott Alexander Not checkable 30 Sep 2014 But my sympathy with Brand ends when he acts like his audience is likely to be fans of Fox News. Scott Alexander · Not checkable · 30 Sep 2014
Mostly true Scott Alexander Factual 30 Sep 2014 The Nazis' outgroup was the almost-identical German Jews rather than the culturally distant Japanese. Scott Alexander · Factual · 30 Sep 2014 Philosophy, ethics and society
Not checkable Scott Alexander Not checkable 30 Sep 2014 Conservatives are all around me, yet I am about as likely to have a serious encounter with one as I am a Tibetan lama. Scott Alexander · Not checkable · 30 Sep 2014
Not checkable Scott Alexander Not checkable 30 Sep 2014 That fits my model perfectly. Scott Alexander · Not checkable · 30 Sep 2014
Not checkable Scott Alexander Not checkable 30 Sep 2014 Racism is worse than partyism because the two parties are at least kind of balanced in numbers and in resources, whereas the brunt of an… Scott Alexander · Not checkable · 30 Sep 2014
Not checkable Scott Alexander Not checkable 30 Sep 2014 Yeah, people do lie to pollsters, but a picture is starting to come together here. Scott Alexander · Not checkable · 30 Sep 2014
Not checkable Scott Alexander Not checkable 30 Sep 2014 Tolerance is also considered a virtue, but it suffers the same sort of dimished expectations forgiveness does. Scott Alexander · Not checkable · 30 Sep 2014
Not checkable Scott Alexander Not checkable 30 Sep 2014 He’s not criticizing his in-group, he’s never even considered criticizing his in-group. Scott Alexander · Not checkable · 30 Sep 2014
Not researched Scott Alexander Citation 30 Sep 2014 Research suggests Blue Tribe/Red Tribe prejudice is much stronger than better-known prejudices like racism. Scott Alexander · Citation · 30 Sep 2014 Philosophy, ethics and society
Not checkable Scott Alexander Not checkable 30 Sep 2014 And I genuinely believed that day that I had found some unexpected good in people – that everyone I knew was so humane and compassionate… Scott Alexander · Not checkable · 30 Sep 2014
Not researched Scott Alexander Factual 30 Sep 2014 The Implicit Association Test found that even white people claiming no racist attitudes usually had positive associations with white people and negative associations with black people. Scott Alexander · Factual · 30 Sep 2014 Philosophy, ethics and society
Not checkable Scott Alexander Not checkable 30 Sep 2014 But the best thing that could happen to this post is that it makes a lot of people, especially myself, figure out how to be more tolerant. Scott Alexander · Not checkable · 30 Sep 2014
Not checkable Scott Alexander Not checkable 30 Sep 2014 The worst thing that could happen to this post is to have it be used as convenient feces to fling at the Blue Tribe whenever feces are… Scott Alexander · Not checkable · 30 Sep 2014
Not researched Scott Alexander Factual 30 Sep 2014 In a study experiment on student résumés, discrimination by party was much stronger than discrimination by race. Scott Alexander · Factual · 30 Sep 2014 Science and research methods
Not checkable Scott Alexander Not checkable 30 Sep 2014 We understand that what he did was bad, but it didn’t anger us personally. Scott Alexander · Not checkable · 30 Sep 2014
Not checkable Scott Alexander Not checkable 30 Sep 2014 In other words, outgroups may be the people who look exactly like you, and scary foreigner types can become the in-group on a moment’s… Scott Alexander · Not checkable · 30 Sep 2014
Not checkable Scott Alexander Not checkable 30 Sep 2014 It’s just good old-fashioned in-group-favoritism and outgroup bashing, a little more sophisticated and a little more sneaky. Scott Alexander · Not checkable · 30 Sep 2014
Mostly true Scott Alexander Factual 30 Sep 2014 Estimates of the genetic contribution to political association range from 0.4 to 0.6. Scott Alexander · Factual · 30 Sep 2014 Science and research methods
Not checkable Scott Alexander Not checkable 30 Sep 2014 Osama provokes a snap judgment of “flawed human being”, Thatcher a snap judgment of “scum”. Scott Alexander · Not checkable · 30 Sep 2014
Mostly true Scott Alexander Factual 30 Sep 2014 Heritability of attitudes toward gay rights is estimated at 0.3 to 0.5, slightly higher than the heritability of homosexuality. Scott Alexander · Factual · 30 Sep 2014 Science and research methods
Not checkable Scott Alexander Not checkable 30 Sep 2014 That means the Red Tribe feels intensely patriotic about “their” country, and the Blue Tribe feels like they’re living in fortified… Scott Alexander · Not checkable · 30 Sep 2014
Not checkable Scott Alexander Not checkable 30 Sep 2014 This essay is bad and I should feel bad. Scott Alexander · Not checkable · 30 Sep 2014
Not checkable Scott Alexander Not checkable 30 Sep 2014 It shouldn’t be fun. Scott Alexander · Not checkable · 30 Sep 2014
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“Donc, il doit être plus simple et plus robuste.”

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

Donc, il doit être plus simple et plus robuste.

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Rodney Brooks, “Donc, il doit être plus simple et plus robuste.” (said 16 December 2014). Verdict: not checkable. Reliability API, claim c_4ff7ce54f473, method 0.1.0+c876030c. https://epistacklabs.com/claims/c_4ff7ce54f473

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