I’ve been saying for a while that this –practical/industrial robotics is where practical AGI will start, and this is where it is indeed starting: http://www.gizmag.com/rethink-robotics-baxter-industrial-robot/24183/?utm_source=Gizmag+Subscribers&utm_campaign=e307576584-UA-2235360-4&utm_medium=email It ain’t there yet, but already you see the key theme which again I have already outlined – esp. the “no programming” robot - [remember?] wh. can be given a practical movement brief and quickly master it, without programmers having to laboriously and lengthily plan its every move. Here workers train the robots, presumably guiding their motions, but the next step is that you just direct/outline the robot what to do – what object to pick up, say – and it works out how to pick up the object for itself (even if under the final supervision of the industrialist).. And that robot will be a true **general** robot – you’ll be able to direct it to pick up (or perform other handling motions on) ANY object of ANY configuration – and it’ll be able to work out a schema for itself – in effect program itself. Such a robot will be applicable to more or less any factory That will indeed constitute both a new industrial revolution and a revolution in AI. It won’t seem grand to most current AGI-ers but that’s because they are fantasists to a man with literally no connection to any practical reality whatsoever - people who want to jump over the Venter steps of first creating sub-cells and move straight to creating a full Frankenstein – and of course have literally nothing real to show. But this kind of robotics is in fact incredibly exciting – it’s where the AGI revolution will actually take place – and in this decade (while AGI-ers here are still waffling on about fantasy singularities).
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