Children of teh Atom

hamster · red belt Joined: 12 May 2007 Posts: 99 Location: Bristol

These people are putting an artificial cerebellum into a robot.

hamster · red belt Joined: 12 May 2007 Posts: 99 Location: Bristol

They claim to be making a "truly autonomous complete artificial cognitive system":

"Through active sensing and exploratory actions the machine will discover the sensorimotor relationships and consequently learn the intrinsic structure of its interactions with the world and unravel predictive and causal relationships. Together with action policy formulation and decision making, this will underlie the machine’s abilities to create abstractions, to suggest and test hypotheses, and develop self-awareness.

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Ninjadmin · Posted: Wed May 30, 2007 3:42 am Post subject:

YEAAH!!!

it's pretty scary how they are building self aware stuff now, once they reach the level where they can be emotinal, there will be loads of computer programs with severe mental problems till they get it right, really strange, and quite sad

wraeth · Posted: Wed May 30, 2007 3:54 am Post subject:

Robot psych

hamster · red belt Joined: 12 May 2007 Posts: 99 Location: Bristol

"The project will demonstrate how a naïve system can bootstrap its cognitive development by constructing generalization and discovering abstractions with which it can conceptualize its environment and its own self. The continuous developmental approach will combine self-supervised and reinforcement learning with motivational drives to form a truly autonomous artificial system.

"Throughout the project, continuous interactions between experimentalists, theoreticians, engineers and roboticists will take place in order to coordinate the most rigorous development and testing of a complete artificial cognitive system."

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