On Wed, Apr 17, 2019 at 06:22:35PM -0700, 'Brent Meeker' via Everything List wrote: > > But how complete must the self-model be.
That is the 64 million dollar question. > As Bruno has pointed out, it can't > be complete. Current Mars Rovers have some "house keeping"self-knowledge, > like battery charge, temperature, power draw, next task, location, time,... I don't think that's enough. I think it must have the ability to recognise other (perhaps similar) robots/machines as being like itself. > Of course current rovers don't have AI which would entail them learning and > planning, which would require that they be able to run a simulation which > included some representation of themself; but that representation might be > very simple. When you plan to travel to the next city your plan includes a > representation of yourself, but probably only as a location. > Hod Lipson's starfish's representation of itself is no doubt rather simple and crude, but it does pose the question of whether it might have some sort of consciousness. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Senior Research Fellow [email protected] Economics, Kingston University http://www.hpcoders.com.au ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
