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Steve Wozniak has given up on artificial intelligence. "What is intelligence?" Apple's co-founder asked an audience of about 550 Thursday at the Houston area's first Up Experience conference in Stafford. His answer? A robot that could get him a cup of coffee. "You can come into my house and make a cup of coffee and I can go into your house and make a cup of coffee," he said. "Imagine what it would take for a robot to do that." It would have to negotiate the home, identify the coffee machine and know how it works, he noted. But that is not something a machine is capable of learning — at least not in his lifetime, added Wozniak, who rolled onto the stage on his ever-present Segway before delivering a rapid-fire speech on robotics, his vision of robots in classrooms and the long haul ahead for artificial intelligence. ... Any system builders here care to give a guess as to how long it will be before a robot, with your system as its controller, can walk into the average suburban home, find the kitchen, make coffee, and serve it? ----- 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=8660244&id_secret=93139505-4aa549
