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2006-06-20 Science & Technology

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Posted by Anonymoose 2006-06-20 15:20|| || Front Page|| [4 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Microsoft? So the Terminator movies were right...

Posted by Iblis">Iblis 2006-06-20 15:54|| 2006-06-20 15:54|| Front Page Top

#2 Bah. If you had MS products running, say, your robo-vacuum cleaner it would ask you four times if you REALLY, REALLY want to vacuum the rug before actually starting to do it, then freeze every 3 meters or so. No thanks.

Posted by Jonathan">Jonathan 2006-06-20 16:06|| 2006-06-20 16:06|| Front Page Top

#3 Should give a new meaning to OS crashes.

Posted by RWV 2006-06-20 16:22|| 2006-06-20 16:22|| Front Page Top

#4 Can't wait to see the effect of viruses on robots.

Posted by Perfesser 2006-06-20 16:48|| 2006-06-20 16:48|| Front Page Top

#5 DUM 1.01a

discreet unit market
Vocabulary limited to 640 words plus 360 cussers not accessible by Mod 1.

Posted by 6 2006-06-20 18:38|| 2006-06-20 18:38|| Front Page Top

#6 Memo to self: don't install the Self-Awareness module. No good can come of it.

Posted by WhiteCollarRedneck 2006-06-20 21:06|| 2006-06-20 21:06|| Front Page Top

#7 Anybody want a Ro-Bob?

Posted by Darrell 2006-06-20 21:24|| 2006-06-20 21:24|| Front Page Top

#8 Hey bill where's my fuckin laws Argghhhhh!

Posted by Asimov 2006-06-20 22:01|| 2006-06-20 22:01|| Front Page Top

#9
When they have Cherry2000 with real...ahem Plug and Play, they can give me a call.

-M

Posted by Manolo 2006-06-20 22:22|| 2006-06-20 22:22|| Front Page Top

#10 Practically speaking, "house robots" will probably have their 'brains' subdivided into three parts, analogous to the human brain, except that its mid- and upper-brain won't be in the robot's body.

It's "primitive" brain will be inside the robot. It will handle I/O, movement, navigation, and hardware diagnostics and monitoring. This is more than enough to use 100% of its resources.

The "midbrain" will be elsewhere in the house, something like a very powerful personal computer dedicated to running the robot. It will WIFI with the robot. When you talk to the robot and it talks back, this will usually be the brain you talk to.

The midbrain will interpret what the robots sensors read, it will identify objects by size, shape, color, and purpose. It will know how to move objects, including the robot, safely and to a purposeful end. It will also control all safety functions, so that the robot does not damage other things or itself. It will also perform mapping functions of its environment, so it will "know" where it is, has been, and is going.

Its upper brain will be available by high-speed Internet. The midbrain AI will interact with most likely a supercomputer AI, so that "learning" will be cumulative with all robots plugged into the system. When a human teaches the robot a new "trick", all robots will have that trick available to them as a situational alternative.

The upper brain will at first be like a massive product support staff, with lots of people checking what it is learning, giving it firm rules and flexible rules. Eventually it will have so many possibilities programmed in that fewer and fewer checks will be needed, of situations so unusual that a robot needs additional instruction and judgement before acting.

Ideally, robot brain evolution will be something like distributed computing. Since most tasks are fairly rote, once their variables are hashed out, the robot upper brain can move on, not having to re-learn the basics again.

Midbrains will have to adapt to new situations, like being put in a new house, but should eventually be able to figure most of it out with a tour like you would give a stranger visiting your house.

Posted by Anonymoose 2006-06-20 23:20|| 2006-06-20 23:20|| Front Page Top

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