Rui Carmo
Rodney Brooks’ latest predictions scorecard is a refreshing dose of reality in a tech landscape often clouded by hype. His candid assessment of self-driving cars, AI, and space travel highlights the gap between expectation and reality, especially where it relates to the AI hype cycle and a need to both temper expectations and have a more rational approach to understanding LLMs.
Some things just take time, while others will never really pan out. It’s going to be interesting to check back in by 2026 and see where we are at, but it’s quite sobering to see that he’s been doing this for seven years now and things are the way they are, so I don’t feel like I’m out on a limb with my own predictions.