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Robot Dogs Evolve Their Own Language
bab00n writes According to this article at The Engineer Online, researchers led by the Institute of Cognitive Science and Technology in Italy are developing robots that evolve their own language, bypassing the limits of imposing human rule-based communication. The technology, dubbed Embedded and Communicating Agents, has allowed researchers at Sony's Computer Science Laboratory in France to add a new level of intelligence to the AIBO dog. The robot dog has learnt to see a ball and tell another one where the ball is, if it's moving and what colour it is, and the other is capable of recognising it.
I, for one, welcome our new robot dog overlords.
3 billion human legs were humped on August 29th, 2007. The survivors of the frottage called the war Judgment Day. They lived only to face a new nightmare: the war against the cute little machines.
"Hey! Hey! He's got the ball! He's got the ball!"
"Oh boy, gimme the ball! I want the ball!"
"Ooh, a squirrel! Hey! Squirrel! Gotta get the squirrel!"
"Oh, gimme a treat! Please.....Gimme a treat!"
"Oh boy! Someone new! I wonder what his crotch smells like?"
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cue the overlords jokes
Darn This development makes the Aibo more intelligent than me. And probably better with grammar.
It just seems a little far-fetched.
No pun intended, I'm sure.
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Hey, your one of those robot dogs aren't you? -Todd
-Todd
Put down the sig, and step away from the computer.
""What has been achieved at Sony shows that the technology gives the robot the ability to develop its own language with which to describe its environment and interact with other AIBOs. It sees a ball and it can tell another one where the ball is, if it's moving and what colour it is, and the other is capable of recognising it," Nolfi said."
These quadrapedal Terminators can now coordinate their efforts to get our balls. The rise of the machines has clearly begun. We shouldn't give robots the ability to scheme in their own langauge - how embarrasing would it be if the human race were wiped out by cute robot dogs?
If we can put a man on the moon, why can't we shoot people for Apollo-related non-sequiturs?
And of course, the dogs will be used to track down those who try to circumvent Sony DRM.
for "Sieze Control"? hrm. might be a tall order for a robot dog. No opposable thumbs.
"If god did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him" --Voltaire
"I'll be back..."
"We are all geniuses when we dream"
- E.M. Cioran
Strangely enough, when the Aibo language was deciphered it was found to greatly resemble Perl.
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Robot Dogs Evolve Their Own Language? That honestly sounds more like a Fark headline.
I guess they are intelligently designed?
Would you kindly mod me +1 insightful?
The initial prototype (named 'Maxthon') is the first in this new line of robotic dogs (which, oddly enough, resembles the "Shinese" breed). 'Max' is supposedly using his new language to circumvent Chinese censhorship.
or at least tech him to stop humping the roomba. everytime the roomba comes off its charger Rex jumps it like a 16 year old on prom night. I would throw water on him but that seems like a bad idea.
WTF?
playing..
Spot: [the AIBO's are running the gauntlet toward the Red Ball] The newspapers- they've stopped!
Rex: [realizes why] Stabilize your tails... Watch for enemy cats!.
Rover: They're coming in! Three marks and 2-10!
[Spot] is slain by Darth Puddles and his wingmen; Rover starts to panic]
Rover: It's no good down here, I can't maneuver!
Rex: Stay on target.
Rover: *We're too close!*
Rex: Stay on target!
Rover: [shouts] Loosen up!
[he too is picked off by Puddles and Company; Rex tries to escape but is fatally winged]
Rex: Rex to Skippy, I Lost three, Lost three. They came from... behind!
[crashes]
"There is only a one in six billion chance that you actually exist"
..."Do Robot Dogs Dream of Electric Cats."
It will eventually be made into a movie starring Harrison Ford as "Shaggy" - an aging inventor who is being tortured by his robotic great dane. The great dane constantly comes up to him and goes, "ruh roh!"
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Stop posting crap on Slashdot and get on with Blob and Conquer. The game's not going to code itself you know.
Particularly if I'm spending most of my time replying to your messages.
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The robot dog has learnt to see a ball and tell another one where the ball is, if it's moving and what colour it is, and the other is capable of recognising it.
Just one more step, and it would make a perfect domestic companion. That and a wet, velvety tongue.
We could call it the "Peanut Butter" paradigm.
-Styopa
Funny...I thought it would be more like Rexx.
-g.
"The technology could lead to robots able to carry out rescue operations fire attacks by swarming over inaccessible areas to find any left living humans people,"
-Dickens
Strangely enough, when the Aibo language was deciphered it was found to greatly resemble Perl.
I'm confused... it looks like Perl, AND it's decipherable?
William of Ockham had no beard. The most likely explanation is that it was chewed off by squirrels every morning.
Not only can they run Linux, they can be condescending to the dogs that don't.
Do Aibos dream of electric treats?
Go hug some trees.