To NSAspook; Sure it's great seeing all tech advances where the abilities of machines get better. The point I was making is that trying to make a machine that is *like us* will not represent the best way to make intelligent machines, and will not represent the highest form of machine intelligence.
Intelligence is the ability to process, and in many way your PC is much more intelligent than you in terms of its math intellect, and it's ability to process fast streams of data. In some ways you are more intelligent. Your car is much better at movement than you are, although you can play the piano better (which is just a different movement task).
I have an issue with that assumption that a robot must be developed to be just like a human, as if that is the highest development there is. The best form for advanced robots are robot forms.
I design robot systems to make machines "think" and to me the term think means that the machine receives sensory input, processes it, makes decisions on a course of action and carries out the actions.
For instance the new world record micromouse maze solver;
http://www.geek.com/articles/chips/min7-micromouse-robot-solves-maze-in-3-921-seconds-20111122/
traverses the maze in 3.9 seconds! It's a good example of a machine that does the thinking part very similar to a human. First it navigates the maze slowly (as you would), learning where the corners are and finds the goal. Then it sits and thinks, as you would, and plots the fastest path to the goal, then it runs at full speed as you would, using its brain for the fastest physical performance and turning at the corners it remembers, but not thinking much along the way.
Intelligence is the ability to process, and in many way your PC is much more intelligent than you in terms of its math intellect, and it's ability to process fast streams of data. In some ways you are more intelligent. Your car is much better at movement than you are, although you can play the piano better (which is just a different movement task).
I have an issue with that assumption that a robot must be developed to be just like a human, as if that is the highest development there is. The best form for advanced robots are robot forms.
That's a strong statement and I don't agree with it, although our individual definitions of "think" are probably very different....
No, machines do not think, and humans do. This is not just about being about to hold an intelligent conversation.
I design robot systems to make machines "think" and to me the term think means that the machine receives sensory input, processes it, makes decisions on a course of action and carries out the actions.
For instance the new world record micromouse maze solver;
http://www.geek.com/articles/chips/min7-micromouse-robot-solves-maze-in-3-921-seconds-20111122/
traverses the maze in 3.9 seconds! It's a good example of a machine that does the thinking part very similar to a human. First it navigates the maze slowly (as you would), learning where the corners are and finds the goal. Then it sits and thinks, as you would, and plots the fastest path to the goal, then it runs at full speed as you would, using its brain for the fastest physical performance and turning at the corners it remembers, but not thinking much along the way.
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