Needless to say, I don't consider cleaning up the house a particularly interesting goal for AGI projects. I can well imagine it being done by a narrow AI system with no capability to do anything besides manipulate simple objects, navigate, etc.
Being able to understand natural language commands pertaining to cleaning up the house is a whole other kettle of fish, of course. This, as opposed to the actual house-cleaning, appears to be an "AGI-hard" problem... -- BenG On 1/6/07, Pei Wang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
"Stanford scientists plan to make a robot capable of performing everyday tasks, such as unloading the dishwasher." http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/2006/november8/ng-110806.html On 1/6/07, Benjamin Goertzel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > The problem wasn't technological. It was that nobody had any use for > > a robot. We never figured out what people would want the robot for. > > I think that's still the problem. > > > > Phil, I think the real issue is that no one wants an expensive, > stupid, awkward robot... > > A broadly functional household robot would be very useful, even if it > lacked intelligence beyond the human-moron level... > > For instance, right now, I would like a robot to go into my daughter's > room and clean up the rabbit turds that are in the rabbit playpen in > there. I would rather not do it. But, a Roomba can't handle this > task because it can't climb over the walls of the playpen, nor > understand my instructions, nor pick up the turds but leave the legos > on the floor alone... > > Heck, a robot to let the dogs in and out of the house would be nice > too... being "doggie doorman" gets tiring. Of course, this could be > solved more easily by installing a doggie door ;-) > > How about a robot to bring me the cordless phone when it rings, but > has been left somewhere else in the house ... ? ;-) > > How about one to put the dishes in the dishwasher and unload them ... > and re-insert the ones that didn't get totally cleaned? The > dishwasher is a good invention but it only does half the job.... > > The problem **is** technological: it's that current robots really suck > ... not that non-sucky robots would be useles... > > -- Ben > > ----- > This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email > To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: > http://v2.listbox.com/member/?list_id=303 > ----- This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http://v2.listbox.com/member/?list_id=303
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