Thanks, what an interesting project. Purely on the mechanical side, it shows how far away we are from truly flexible house-friendly robust mobile robotic devices. I'm a big fan of the robotic approach myself. I think it is quite likely that dealing with the messy flood of dirty data coming from the real world, and sorting it all into forms where it can be learned from effectively, will be very helpful in rooting out the nature of concepts and the meaning of symbols as applied to the actual world (rather than some non-representative abstraction). On the other hand, if we want to build philosophers and scientists, it would be kind of nice if we didn't have to build them expensive bodies! Do you have to be able to think like a cat to think like Descartes? I'm glad people are looking for the answer from both sides of the issue. A quote: > Whatever the robot learns individually and socially should help > to develop its language skills, which in turn, should help iCub > interact better with its environment and pick up more knowledge > to learn more. Knowledge of grammar and vocabulary is also > likely to emerge naturally through this process. I wonder if they have a theory of mind that would make this actually possible, or if they are just optimistic. Sounds sort of magical to me so far. If I ever actually start experimenting with AGI for my own amusement, I'll start by building a robot. Of course, I've been saying that for years, and I am a big fan of Bob Mottram's work in this area.
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