A.I. and Robotics Take Another Wobbly Step Forward

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Monday January 26, 2009 @10:39AM from the where-is-my-robotic-bartender dept.

CWmike writes to tell us that artificial intelligence and robotics have made another wobbly step forward with the most recent robot from Stanford. "Stair" is one of a new breed of robot that is trying to integrate learning, vision, navigation, manipulation, planning, reasoning, speech, and natural language processing. "It also marks a transition of AI from narrow, carefully defined domains to real-world situations in which systems learn to deal with complex data and adapt to uncertainty. AI has more or less followed the 'hype cycle' popularized by Gartner Inc.: Technologies perk along in the shadows for a few years, then burst on the scene in a blaze of hype. Then they fall into disrepute when they fail to deliver on extravagant promises, until they eventually rise to a level of solid accomplishment and acceptance."

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Re:Have you seen my stapler? by fyngyrz · 2009-01-26 11:30 · Score: 0, Redundant

Now, have you seen the memo about the TPS reports?

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Re:People perception by im_thatoneguy · 2009-01-26 11:57 · Score: 1, Redundant

Data was an enigma to me.
He would go into a holodeck to learn about emotions from computer software.
Was I the only one confused by this? Why not... you know... just give him the same programming as all of the holodeck characters? It seemed emotional and social behavior was easy to teach to 20 billion unique characters on a holodeck program for earth but beyond the abilities of Data?