I, Robot
Following the idea that human consciousness is "basically a state in which the behavior of the self and another is understood," Meiji University researchers say that their new robot can understand the difference between itself (using a mirror to show it an image) and a completely identical, other robot.
At times our understanding of artificial intelligence is like our understanding of clones. Faulty no matter what level of education we have received.
(For most of us that is)
We've all seen computers programmed to mimic realistic responses but at best they are simply trained to pick out keywords or certain words strung together and have pre-laid out responses to choose from. Sure the programming or algorithms required is/are pretty complex but.. it is still just human programming. I wonder though how far this experiment will end up driving this holy grail of our machines, AI.
Humans learn behavior during cognition and conversely learn to think while behaving, said Takeno.
To mimic this dynamic, a robot needs a common area in its neural network that is able to process information on both cognition and behavior.
Takeno and his colleagues built the robot with blue, red or green LEDs connected to artificial neurons in the region that light up when different information is being processed, based on the robot's behavior.
At times our understanding of artificial intelligence is like our understanding of clones. Faulty no matter what level of education we have received.
(For most of us that is)
We've all seen computers programmed to mimic realistic responses but at best they are simply trained to pick out keywords or certain words strung together and have pre-laid out responses to choose from. Sure the programming or algorithms required is/are pretty complex but.. it is still just human programming. I wonder though how far this experiment will end up driving this holy grail of our machines, AI.
posted by Sj @ 12/22/2005 02:02:00 PM
1 Comments:
At 23 December, 2005 08:24,
Sj said…
Forget driving, they can hardly get one to walk! I saw the ASIMO robot from Honda when it came to the Ontario Science Centre. (The show was directed to kids but I wanted to see it too) It took years and years to perfect it's ability to climb severly defined steps without falling (it has a humanoid shape) and required much technology to balance itself. This is just walking and climbing up and down stairs. A feat considered so hard it was a feature at the Science Centre. We are far away from running robots or those that can walk around let alone drive among us.
(Actually every year or so the US offers money to any inventor who can win their desert race. The vehicle must be completely automated and unmanned. Last year they all crashed or got stuck. It is still very very hard.)
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