You're right - it does seem wrong. With the 'home' robot market forecast to be about $40b by 2025 - and growing exponentially (source: Japan Robotics Association), Sony is incredibly well placed to move in on this. It would seem stupid that they should give up such an advantage (and risk just folding up and going head-to-head with Microsoft over gaming consoles). And that's not to mention (as you say) the benefits of public marketing and image that is so easily 'cool' with anything robotics (esp. in Japan) - and which is so relatively cheap to do in terms of research$.
Nah. I personally will wait 'till I see this story confirmed on the Sony website first...
Won't work. These are the guys that will probably be contracted to do it. They did the London congestion charging system - and despite lots of people trying flash/IR/reflection/high speed/etc. everyone gets caught. It's pretty low tech machine vision, but done really well.
Alan: Let battle commence! Do you like me doing that? Shall I do it more quickly or shall I maintain the same speed?
Jill: That's fine.
Alan: Right. Shall I move on to the other one? Oh, that's lovely. That's first class. That is superb. Ooh, there you go, it's all happening! Jill I'm afraid I have no sheathes.
Jill: No what?
Alan: Sheathes, er, prophylactics, you know, rubber johnnies. Actually, being your age and everything there's probably no need for them. I'm talking about the menopau - whoooo! Jill you know your onions! Do you mind if I talk? It helps me keep the... wolf from the door, so to speak. Jill, what do you think about the pedestrianisation of Norwich town centre? I'll be honest I'm dead against it. People forget that traders need access to Dixons! They do say it'll help people in wheeeeelchairs...
Some of the videos I've seen of this work are quiet shocking. Some guy can come right up and touch the face and feel the android - which is really realistic - and so goes against every sort of social "personal space" rule (especially if you are Japaneese).
I had this version too as a kid. Thought it might help me program my Speccy, but gave up after trying to roll up a puch-card and stick it down line-in. Guess it was a *little* out of date, even back in the early 80's...
Fabulous (sic) idea - but more fundamentally (and I can't remember if this is an original idea, or else absorbed from some sci-fi book somewhere) is there ever going to be a complete "technology tree" for all man-kind...
So, like if I like crash on some strange planet that just so happens to have ore-rich rocks a N/O^2 atmosphere and plenty of organic materials (damn, no matches) - I could then recreate civilization from the ground up. Minus a few bombs and things...
That would be cool. Standard Technology Templates.
AARON is generally viewed within AI (along with the rest of this topic) as more an issue of creativity. That is (to quote Margaret Boden) : the generation of novel and useful artifacts.
Novel... can indeed mean randomly generated in the simplest case (as per "Typogenerator"), but generally other factors guide such processes in human endeavours (combinatorial, heuristical, transcendental).
Useful... aye, there is the rub. How do judge art?
I am myself (as most Slashdotters) often dubious of the spin put on science for main-stream TV, and while the Horizon program did indeed have lots of the usual London flooded/dust-storm enveloping the BT tower/etc. scenes, plus lots of "but then, things get even worse..." sort of narrative - there was still some good science and a genuine warning to be heeded.
Consider the solid data accumulated from such straight-forward measurements as solar energy and pan evaporation, and the reasoning behind cloud reflectance (particulates building more/smaller raindrops). Together with the observations on the effects of contrails taken during the only time aircraft were grounded in the US (after 9/11). Also, the fact that while industrialised nations have cleaned up air quality - their summers have also been getting warming...
OK, so maybe global warming is/isn't held in check by global dimming. But does anyone here really believe that 6 billion people spewing out CO^2 shouldn't have had more effect by now...
This is why I support wind farms (& nuclear) and don't believe in low cost airlines!
DOUGAL: Can I stay up tonight to watch the scary film? TED: Ah, no no no. The last time you stayed up to watch a scary film, you ended up having to sleep in my bed. I wouldn't mind, but it wasn't even a scary film. DOUGAL: Come on, Ted. A Volkswagen with a mind of its own. Driving all over the place and going mad. If that isn't scary, I don't know what is.
I don't think you could get much of a better ending. Provided that any adaptation holds true to most people interpretation - that is, for all their technological superiority, the Martians are brought low by a humble virus. The best laid plans gang aft aglay...
What would you prefer? A nice, big, sci-fi laden explosion (one of those ones with the shockwave front radiating out only along the equatorial axis)? Whoo - yeah!
Apple, BSD, daemon processes... They just see their own association and fit it to whatever ideological conditioning they've been reared on, before propagating the next generation in the perpetual cycle of ignorance and fear...
One thing about this gadget - it requires an accompanying floppy for its driver. So you'll have to pesuade any nice Internet Cafe to "upgrade" one of their machines (and I hear NT does not like it one bit - what a surprise!)
On the plus side - it's very fast, and you can also write to it (giving you a monster floppy if you put in a 32 MB SM card).
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I'm a code monkey, baby.
Climb up my binary tree.
Ten thousand lines to debug.
So don't fling shit at me.
Yeah, Richard O'brian was a nutter!
Mind you, the pre-cursor of all such TV-puzzle-action-RPG's is of course "The Adventure Game" .
Drogna, Drogna, Rangdo!
You're right - it does seem wrong. With the 'home' robot market forecast to be about $40b by 2025 - and growing exponentially (source: Japan Robotics Association), Sony is incredibly well placed to move in on this. It would seem stupid that they should give up such an advantage (and risk just folding up and going head-to-head with Microsoft over gaming consoles). And that's not to mention (as you say) the benefits of public marketing and image that is so easily 'cool' with anything robotics (esp. in Japan) - and which is so relatively cheap to do in terms of research$.
Nah. I personally will wait 'till I see this story confirmed on the Sony website first...
Won't work. These are the guys that will probably be contracted to do it. They did the London congestion charging system - and despite lots of people trying flash/IR/reflection/high speed/etc. everyone gets caught. It's pretty low tech machine vision, but done really well.
Wee, sleeket, stalwart, non-tim'rous beastie,
O, what panic's in my breastie!
Thou need na start tward me sae hasty,
Wi' bickering brattle!
I wadna be laith to rin fae thee,
Wi' yer murd'ring pattle!
After the bard - http://www.electricscotland.com/burns/mouse.html
Alan: Let battle commence! Do you like me doing that? Shall I do it more quickly or shall I maintain the same speed?
Jill: That's fine.
Alan: Right. Shall I move on to the other one? Oh, that's lovely. That's first class. That is superb. Ooh, there you go, it's all happening! Jill I'm afraid I have no sheathes.
Jill: No what?
Alan: Sheathes, er, prophylactics, you know, rubber johnnies. Actually, being your age and everything there's probably no need for them. I'm talking about the menopau - whoooo! Jill you know your onions! Do you mind if I talk? It helps me keep the... wolf from the door, so to speak. Jill, what do you think about the pedestrianisation of Norwich town centre? I'll be honest I'm dead against it. People forget that traders need access to Dixons! They do say it'll help people in wheeeeelchairs...
What is more scary is how "respulsed" you might be by it if it were too "hot"...
This research recently backs up the findings of Mori in the '70's into the "Uncanny Valley" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncanny_Valley
Some of the videos I've seen of this work are quiet shocking. Some guy can come right up and touch the face and feel the android - which is really realistic - and so goes against every sort of social "personal space" rule (especially if you are Japaneese).
(cue jokes on "valleys"...:-)
I had this version too as a kid. Thought it might help me program my Speccy, but gave up after trying to roll up a puch-card and stick it down line-in. Guess it was a *little* out of date, even back in the early 80's...
It was kinda half/half with HP that STL got off the ground.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_Template_Li
Now it's standardised (sic) everyone has their own version anyway...
What? You mean it has "ex"?
Sorted.
Fabulous (sic) idea - but more fundamentally (and I can't remember if this is an original idea, or else absorbed from some sci-fi book somewhere) is there ever going to be a complete "technology tree" for all man-kind...
So, like if I like crash on some strange planet that just so happens to have ore-rich rocks a N/O^2 atmosphere and plenty of organic materials (damn, no matches) - I could then recreate civilization from the ground up. Minus a few bombs and things...
That would be cool. Standard Technology Templates.
You would think this would be something Wikipedia or How Stuff Works would get into.
Until he was foiled...
AARON is generally viewed within AI (along with the rest of this topic) as more an issue of creativity. That is (to quote Margaret Boden) : the generation of novel and useful artifacts.
Novel... can indeed mean randomly generated in the simplest case (as per "Typogenerator"), but generally other factors guide such processes in human endeavours (combinatorial, heuristical, transcendental).
Useful... aye, there is the rub. How do judge art?
See here for more.
I am myself (as most Slashdotters) often dubious of the spin put on science for main-stream TV, and while the Horizon program did indeed have lots of the usual London flooded/dust-storm enveloping the BT tower/etc. scenes, plus lots of "but then, things get even worse..." sort of narrative - there was still some good science and a genuine warning to be heeded.
Consider the solid data accumulated from such straight-forward measurements as solar energy and pan evaporation, and the reasoning behind cloud reflectance (particulates building more/smaller raindrops). Together with the observations on the effects of contrails taken during the only time aircraft were grounded in the US (after 9/11). Also, the fact that while industrialised nations have cleaned up air quality - their summers have also been getting warming...
OK, so maybe global warming is/isn't held in check by global dimming. But does anyone here really believe that 6 billion people spewing out CO^2 shouldn't have had more effect by now...
This is why I support wind farms (& nuclear) and don't believe in low cost airlines!
DOUGAL: Can I stay up tonight to watch the scary film?
TED: Ah, no no no. The last time you stayed up to watch a scary film, you ended up having to sleep in my bed. I wouldn't mind, but it wasn't even a scary film.
DOUGAL: Come on, Ted. A Volkswagen with a mind of its own. Driving all over the place and going mad. If that isn't scary, I don't know what is.
I don't think you could get much of a better ending. Provided that any adaptation holds true to most people interpretation - that is, for all their technological superiority, the Martians are brought low by a humble virus. The best laid plans gang aft aglay...
What would you prefer? A nice, big, sci-fi laden explosion (one of those ones with the shockwave front radiating out only along the equatorial axis)? Whoo - yeah!
Try explaining that to some people.
Apple, BSD, daemon processes... They just see their own association and fit it to whatever ideological conditioning they've been reared on, before propagating the next generation in the perpetual cycle of ignorance and fear...
Something of that ilk may be found yonder .
One thing about this gadget - it requires an accompanying floppy for its driver. So you'll have to pesuade any nice Internet Cafe to "upgrade" one of their machines (and I hear NT does not like it one bit - what a surprise!)
On the plus side - it's very fast, and you can also write to it (giving you a monster floppy if you put in a 32 MB SM card).