“A robot that seems as intelligent, as attentive, and as faithful, as a dog. NET 2048. (This is so much harder than most people imagine it to be — many think we are already there; I say we are not at all there.)”
Roboticist; MIT Panasonic Professor of Robotics (emeritus); co-founder of iRobot and Rethink Robotics; co-founder and CTO of Robust.AI
Said Jan 1, 2018Deadline Jan 1, 2048Rodney Brooks, "My Dated Predictions," rodneybrooks.com, January 1, 2018
Brooks still maintains the 2048 floor, repeating in 2026 that this is 'so much harder than most people imagine it to be.'