On 11/05/07, J Storrs Hall, PhD <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Tommy, the scientific experiment and engineering project, is almost all about concept formation. He gets a voluminous input stream but is required to parse it into coherent concepts (e.g. objects, positions, velocities, etc). None of these concepts is he given originally. Tommy 1.0 will simply watch the world and try to imagine what happens next.
Interesting. This is somewhat similar to one of the projects that I am interested in. Assuming sufficient or the correct hardware, I'm interested in body mounted robotics for Intelligence Augmentation, using what people would think of as AI. An example of the robot if not the software http://www.robots.ox.ac.uk/ActiveVision/Projects/Wear/wear.03/index.html I would start off with that annotating its visual streams to be passed to head mounted display on the user. Things like tracking objects the user has pointed at, so the user could see things not directly in front of him, or high-lighting important objects to the user, would be some of the things it would be initially taught. I would also give it a controlled, low power laser pointer so it could visually mark things for other people apart from its user. I think this sort of system is a worthy one to study, as it allows the user and the robot to inhabit the same world (so concepts developed by the computer should not be too alien to the user, and thus languages may be shared between them), it also allows for long periods of time for the researcher to be present with the computer if such time scales as a babies development are required for the teaching of human level intelligence. It also tries to minimise the amount of processing/robotics required to share the similar world, meaning more projects could possibly be attempted at once. While user and computer do share the same world in your experimental setup, there may be some concepts that would be hard for it to learn such as translation of its PoV. Whether that would be a fatal flaw in its developed mental model of the world (and limit its ability to communicate with as hardware and its capabilities developed), I'm not sure. More experimentation and better theories required, as ever. Will Pearson ----- 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/?member_id=231415&user_secret=fabd7936
