>Ben wrote: > > I'm happy to contribute design ideas to your "sensory front end" project. > And if software development is required beyond what you can do yourself, and > a small amount of funding is achieved for the project, members of my team > could do the work at relatively low cost. > > While this is not top-priority for AGI in my view, I do think it's > interesting and valuable work. > > As I said, I think the kits at www.smartrobots.com look interesting. > Building the right "API" for one of these things for AGI systems to > interface with would be a worthwhile project ... and then > building/integrating some appropriate perceptual pre-processing tools, etc.
Sorry for the delay, I think this is a very good offer. I was busy trying to figure out a way to accelerate neural processing, but it seems not so easy. Anyways, I took a look at SmartRobots.com, their models don't have a visual (camera) module. Sensors are limited to obstacle avoidance. It may be possible to add a visual module to it, but my original idea is to develop a minimalist visual module without robotics, for the simple reason of cost cutting. If we were to develop a full model, the product will be more expensive and time-to-market will be longer. I guess the best approach is to develop a visual module that can be added to varieties of robotic platforms. The AGI flatform will be one based on experiential learning, as Pei Wang suggested earlier. Basically it will try to extract features from the input stream, and the output is perhaps some propositions describing what's going on in the environment. Memory and learning will be left to the AGI developer (though I think my complete AGI model is not bad). I'm worried that some robotics companies may be developing their platforms as well, and there'll be issues of standards, compatibility etc. YKY -- _______________________________________________ Find what you are looking for with the Lycos Yellow Pages http://r.lycos.com/r/yp_emailfooter/http://yellowpages.lycos.com/default.asp?SRC=lycos10 ------- To unsubscribe, change your address, or temporarily deactivate your subscription, please go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
