Re: [agi] Torboto - the Torture Robot

2007-04-24 Thread Bob Mottram
The prospect of robots causing harm is not only a theoretical SIAI-style consideration. At the moment I'm adding a manipulator arm to a telerobot, and the intention here is to allow some useful household jobs to be done using the robot, such as sweeping or mopping up, via an internet based

Re: [agi] Torboto - the Torture Robot

2007-04-24 Thread J. Storrs Hall, PhD.
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

Re: [agi] Torboto - the Torture Robot

2007-04-24 Thread Bob Mottram
On 24/04/07, J. Storrs Hall, PhD. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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

Re: [agi] Torboto - the Torture Robot

2007-04-24 Thread Mike Tintner
fairly simple environments. I'd be interested to know, JSH, why your early teleological AI efforts failed. - Original Message - From: Bob Mottram To: agi@v2.listbox.com Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2007 5:15 PM Subject: Re: [agi] Torboto - the Torture Robot On 24/04/07, J

[agi] Torboto - the Torture Robot

2007-04-23 Thread Benjamin Goertzel
Hopefully not the future of AGI... http://www.crooksandliars.com/2007/04/22/torboto-the-robot-that-tortures-people/ [Warning: contents could be offensive to some... crude humor etc. ...] -- Ben G - This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your