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Rodney Brooks
Born 1954-12-30 · Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Rodney Allen Brooks (born December 30, 1954, in Adelaide, Australia) is a professor of robotics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Since 1986 he has authored a series of highly influential papers which have inaugurated a fundamental shift in artificial intelligence research. Outside the scientific community Brooks is also known for his appearance in a film featuring him and his work, Fast, Cheap, and Out of Control. Description above from the Wikipedia article Rodney Brooks, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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6.5If machines can be smarter than people, is humanity really anything special?
Machine
2019
6.8Errol Morris’s Fast, Cheap & Out of Control interweaves the stories of four men, each driven to create eccentric worlds from their unique obsessions, all of which involve animals. There’s a lion tamer who shares his theories on the mental processes of wild animals; a topiary gardener who has devoted a lifetime to shaping bears and giraffes out of hedges and trees; a man fascinated with hairless mole rats; and an MIT scientist who has designed complex, autonomous robots that can crawl like bugs.
Fast, Cheap & Out of Control
1997
8.5"Three Tales" is a video music work by American composer Steve Reich and video artist Beryl Korot. It is set in three "Acts", each depicting a technological advance of the 20th century and its negative implications on humanity: the dirigible airship Hindenburg and its explosion; the Atom Bomb and its testing on Bikini Atoll; and Dolly the sheep, first successful genetic cloning of a mammal.
Reich: Three Tales
2002