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The person you're largely agreeing with is Rodney Brooks (formerly of MIT CSAIL, http://people.csail.mit.edu/brooks/publications.html http://people.csail.mit.ed
by ethbro 9y ago
The person you're largely agreeing with is Rodney Brooks (formerly of MIT CSAIL, http://people.csail.mit.edu/brooks/publications.html http://people.csail.mit.edu/brooks/publications.html ).
And to sum it up a bit, the hypothesis is that humanlike AI is as much a product of the experience and reality of being physically (and limitedly!) human as it is any abstract algorithm.
You may also know him from a small company called iRobot (aka Roomba).
- rwnspace 9y agoThank you very much for the link, and nice summary. This looks very interesting, I'm grateful: my learning habits mean I'm liable to playing with second-hand scraps of ideas, and missing out on sources.
- arstin 9y agoI think his article Intelligence Without Representation is particularly worth reading at least once. http://people.csail.mit.edu/brooks/papers/representation.pdf http://people.csail.mit.edu/brooks/papers/representation.pdf
- ethbro 9y agoTo elaborate a bit, most of the excerpts I've heard have to do with the availability of sensors. E.g. Task: grasp an egg without cracking it Physical platform 1: actuators, no pressure sensors Physical platform 2: actuators, pressure sensors where egg contacts robot Inarguably, the simplest successful implementation of the task in driving code will be much more concise for platform 2 than platform 1. ... Now generalize the same idea to trying to teach disembodied AI to be human.