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Rodney Brooks
Rodney Brooks
Australian Scientist
Born: Dec 30, 1954
About Just Machines People Robot You
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Are those 'terrible' machines really putting those people out of work? Or are they getting rid of a really dull job that we shouldn't be torturing people with? Rodney Brooks
Work People Job Those Machines Out Putting Terrible Dull Getting Really Rid
We have to accept that we are just machines. That's certainly what modern molecular biology says about us. Rodney Brooks
Biology Says Machines About Accept Modern Just Us Molecular Certainly
I see robotic technology getting rid of the dangerous, the dirty, and the just plain boring jobs. Some people say, 'You can't. People won't have anything to do.' But we found things that were a lot easier than backbreaking labor in the sun and the fields. Let people rise to better things. Rodney Brooks
You Technology People Dangerous Better Some People Say Sun Easier Jobs Boring See People Say Some Rise Dirty Better Things Robotic Were Lot Labor Than Getting Just Anything Fields Plain Rid Found Things
If we are machines, then in principle at least, we should be able to build machines out of other stuff, which are just as alive as we are. Rodney Brooks
Build Other Alive Machines Out Able Stuff Principle Least Just Which Then Should
People don't say, 'I just had a kid and I hope it turns out to be a factory worker.' Rodney Brooks
Hope People Say Kid Out Factory Factory Worker Had Just Worker Turns
So maybe with the research robots that are out there, people will come up with ways to use them to take care of the elderly. And that can help me someday. Because, you know what? I'm heading in that direction. Rodney Brooks
Me You People Care Will Research Ways Out Someday Direction Take Take Care Heading Come Know Because Robots Up Maybe Them Elderly Use Help
With the revolution around 1980 of PCs, the spreadsheet programs were tuned for office workers - not to replace office workers, but it respected office workers as being capable of being programmers. So office workers became programmers of spreadsheets. It increased their capabilities. Rodney Brooks
Revolution Increased Programs Respected Became Around Were Replace Office Being Tuned Capabilities Capable Workers Programmers
The most important thing for building a robot that you can interact with socially is its visual attention system. Because what it pays attention to is what it's seeing and interacting with, and what you're understanding what it's doing. Rodney Brooks
You Important Robot Building Understanding System Visual Seeing Attention Most Most Important Thing Because Important Thing Doing Interact Interacting The Most Important Pays Thing Socially
The question is, you know, will someone accidentally build a robot that takes over from us? And that's sort of like this lone guy in the backyard, you know - 'I accidentally built a 747.' I don't think that's going to happen. Rodney Brooks
You Will Build Robot Think Backyard Lone Someone Guy Takes Over Like Know Sort Built Accidentally Question Going Happen Us
The benefits of having robots could vastly outweigh the problems. Rodney Brooks
Benefits Problems Having Vastly Could Outweigh Robots
Every technology, every science that tells us more about ourselves, is scary at the time. Rodney Brooks
Time Technology Science Every Ourselves Tells About Scary More Us
It's reasonable to say that certain things we understand should perhaps have limits on how they're used and how certain technologies are deployed. That's very much what we should do as a society. Rodney Brooks
Society Say Perhaps Understand How Limits Very Deployed Much Certain Should Used Certain Things Reasonable Things Technologies

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