Subject: Re: intelligent robots ...
From: Olivier Chocron
Date: Sat, 26 Oct 1996 11:08:08 +0100
Andrei M. Shkel wrote:
>
> I am doing a class project: "Intelligent robots: is it reality or
> science fiction?" I would be very much interested in knowing your
> opinion about:
>
> 1. What is your first association with the word "robot"?
In fact, the original word meant "slave" in Czech and since, the
definition has not changed:
A robot is a machine that performs physical tasks for humans.
This does not imply that it is autonomous or intelligent.
So, yes a toaster is a robot (of the primary kind).
> 2. Do you associate this word more with real life or with science
> fiction?
As a roboticist, I work with them (and for them...who is the slave?)
and so I associate the word with real life.
> 3. Why there are not so many robots surrounding us in real life?
In the large meaning of robots, they surround us (imagine..we can say
that a car is a robot), but if you mean an autonomous and intelligent
robot, they are very few (they are here in our lab!), not fully
autonomous and hardly intelligent (as their intelligence is higly
restricted). Meanwhile, many researchers are working to design new
sophisticated and usefull robots. I think we should be flooded with
intelligent robots in a score of years.
> Thanks for your responses...
Y a pas de quoi...
-- PS.
I think that if sci-fi robots do not exist it is more because of the
lack of needs (and then of funds) than because the lack of technology.
Designing talking robots for examples is a crafty task which would
use a lot of money..too much to spent for amusing children.
Walking robots, though are heavily studied and should appear in number
as soon as industry ask for it.
Olivier
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Subject: Re: RI-714i State of Sanity, Definition of
From: Paul Davis
Date: Sun, 27 Oct 1996 11:17:31 +1000
Perhaps another ????
In-Sanity is a state where, In
[SNIP]
>... constantly evaluating
>your own behavior and
>your own intentions, and
>the behavior of others, and
>the intentions of others,
>towards survival for all.
as apparently do the sane,
you become overwhelmed and believe that you
really are a self-automated Turing machine
whose logic circuits have become fused with
a toaster.
Have a good day all :)
Paul 'Winter Wolf' Davis
What is man without the beasts ? If all the beasts were gone man would
die from a great loneliness of the spirit - Chief Seattle