“When you have 10,000 orders that just came in that you have to ship in two hours, you have to optimize for that.”
Rodney Brooks co-founded iRobot and Robust.ai, a warehouse robot company, and he refuses to bolt an LLM onto it. Language, he says, is “just going to slow things down.” People watch a model do one task and assume competence at everything nearby. The iPod went from 10GB to 160GB and stopped, and the AI exponential crowd hasn’t noticed that curves do that.