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Architects of Intelligence

By : Martin Ford
Book Image

Architects of Intelligence

By: Martin Ford

Overview of this book

How will AI evolve and what major innovations are on the horizon? What will its impact be on the job market, economy, and society? What is the path toward human-level machine intelligence? What should we be concerned about as artificial intelligence advances? Architects of Intelligence contains a series of in-depth, one-to-one interviews where New York Times bestselling author, Martin Ford, uncovers the truth behind these questions from some of the brightest minds in the Artificial Intelligence community. Martin has wide-ranging conversations with twenty-three of the world's foremost researchers and entrepreneurs working in AI and robotics: Demis Hassabis (DeepMind), Ray Kurzweil (Google), Geoffrey Hinton (Univ. of Toronto and Google), Rodney Brooks (Rethink Robotics), Yann LeCun (Facebook) , Fei-Fei Li (Stanford and Google), Yoshua Bengio (Univ. of Montreal), Andrew Ng (AI Fund), Daphne Koller (Stanford), Stuart Russell (UC Berkeley), Nick Bostrom (Univ. of Oxford), Barbara Grosz (Harvard), David Ferrucci (Elemental Cognition), James Manyika (McKinsey), Judea Pearl (UCLA), Josh Tenenbaum (MIT), Rana el Kaliouby (Affectiva), Daniela Rus (MIT), Jeff Dean (Google), Cynthia Breazeal (MIT), Oren Etzioni (Allen Institute for AI), Gary Marcus (NYU), and Bryan Johnson (Kernel). Martin Ford is a prominent futurist, and author of Financial Times Business Book of the Year, Rise of the Robots. He speaks at conferences and companies around the world on what AI and automation might mean for the future. This is the hardcover edition of the book.
Table of Contents (28 chapters)
Architects of Intelligence
Introduction
2
YOSHUA BENGIO
3
STUART J. RUSSELL
4
GEOFFREY HINTON
5
NICK BOSTROM
6
YANN LECUN
7
FEI-FEI LI
8
DEMIS HASSABIS
9
ANDREW NG
10
RANA EL KALIOUBY
11
RAY KURZWEIL
12
DANIELA RUS
13
JAMES MANYIKA
14
GARY MARCUS
15
BARBARA J. GROSZ
16
JUDEA PEARL
17
JEFFREY DEAN
18
DAPHNE KOLLER
19
DAVID FERRUCCI
20
RODNEY BROOKS
21
CYNTHIA BREAZEAL
22
JOSHUA TENENBAUM
23
OREN ETZIONI
24
BRYAN JOHNSON
25
When Will Human-Level AI be Achieved? Survey Results

Chapter 20. RODNEY BROOKS

We don’t have anything anywhere near as good as an insect, so I’m not afraid of superintelligence showing up anytime soon.

CHAIRMAN, RETHINK ROBOTICS

Rodney Brooks is widely recognized as one of the world’s foremost roboticists. Rodney co-founded iRobot Corporation, an industry leader in both consumer robotics (primarily the Roomba vacuum cleaner) and military robots, such as those used to defuse bombs in the Iraq war (iRobot divested its military robotics division in 2016). In 2008, Rodney co-founded a new company, Rethink Robotics, focused on building flexible, collaborative manufacturing robots that can safely work alongside human workers.

MARTIN FORD: While at MIT, you started the iRobot company, which is now one of the world’s biggest distributors of commercial robots. How did that come about?

RODNEY BROOKS: I started iRobot back in 1990 with Colin Angle and Helen Greiner. At iRobot we had a run of 14 failed business models and didn’t get a successful one...