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Babybot Learns Like You Did
holy_calamity writes "A European project has produced this one-armed 'babybot' that learns like a human child. It experiments and knocks things over until it can pick them up for itself. Interestingly the next step is to build a fully humanoid version that's open source in both software and hardware."
Aren't you afraid this poor open source robot will get exploited by the other robots, or do the proprietary robots have something to hide? What kind of insults can we expect? Your father was a code monkey and your mother got her card punched by a UNIVAC!
babybot? robocub? fire your marketing people!
may mean that such machines can never become as intelligent as us
They don't know and they're playing with it. Have they even seen the Matrix??
Common sense is not so common
A one armed baby bot? That's disturbing on so many levels.
Philosophy.
So this bot is going to lie in its crib, thrashing its arms and legs, screaming at the top of its lungs, until someone picks it, gives it a full juice bottle, a cookie and walks it around trying desparately to amuse it?
"Academicians are more likely to share each other's toothbrush than each other's nomenclature."
Cohen
Linked page has blue links on a blue background... Sometimes it'd be nice to encounter some Natural Intelligence.
TFA Said: "The goal is to build a humanoid 2-year-old child"
You said: Not a bad goal at all
Apparently you've never been around a 2-year old.
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BMO
It experiments and knocks things over until it can pick them up for itself.
You don't need an advanced AI to do that, the algorithm goes like this:
while(1) {
throw_toy();
while(!toy_is_back())
cry_loud();
}
"The goal is to build a humanoid 2-year-old child," explains Metta.
There is a far easier and more pleasant way to create a child.
Unfortunately, it requires 2 years, nine months, and three minutes.
If "disco" means "I learn" in Latin, does "discothèque" mean "I learn technology"?
That baby would be tough on the birth canal.