On Tuesday 24 April 2007 07:42, Bob Mottram wrote: > Incidentally, once a significant amount of data is recorded from human use > of a telerobot getting the robot to do some things autonomously becomes a > data mining exercise.
Mining plus matching, analogy, and interpolation/extrapolation. The key to making it work is to form the abstractions that allow the robot/AI to interpret the actions as "grasp broom; lower until it touches floor" instead of "move hand to (x,y,z); close hand; lower hand 6.3 cm". A really serious step toward AGI would be to program a robot so that it could watch a human doing a task and then do the task. Back in the day, as a grad student in AI in the 70's, I worked on a system to do act interpretation, i.e. "watch" (be fed a sequence of predicate expressions describing) a series of actions by someone and try to figure out what their goal was and the teleological structure of their activity. The inverse of planning, as it were. The system was frankly junk and many of my notions of the right way to build an AI are informed by its shortcomings -- but we were working on (one of) the right problem(s). Josh ----- 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
