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#217 – Rodney Brooks: Robotics
Lex Fridman Podcast
The Ability to Construct Metaphor Is a Really Powerful Thing
For the longest time, chess was seen as the highest level of intellect. Until we got computers that were better at it than people. But still to me reasoning is a special thing. We just use these analogies based on our hunter gather intuitions. What did evolution spend its time on? It spent its time on getting us to perceive and move in the world. That was 600 million years as multi-soupt creatures doing that. So if you then look at the engineering of these things, so building it into robots, what's the hardest part of robotics?"
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