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Not to be flippant but isn't it machine learning using the robot, not the other way around?
by SubiculumCode 7y ago
Not to be flippant but isn't it machine learning using the robot, not the other way around?
- jefft255 7y agoNot really, the robot uses it in the sense that the machine learning algorithm will detect cabbages and tell if it's ready, and that information will be used by the robot to perform harvesting. Of course, you can have end-to-end control of the robot via machine learning (they seem, for example, to use another camera for blade control), and at this stage you could be right but in the robotics community we always say that a robot uses machine learning, not the other way around.
- SubiculumCode 7y agoIf you think of machine learning as the mind and the robot as the body...does the body use the mind or does the mind use the body?
- inetknght 7y agoWhy does it have to be a one-way use?
- SubiculumCode 7y agoIt was more of a comment on how we use language about a machine and its intelligence compared to how we use language about a human and a human's intelligence. To be clear, my comment was not taking a position on whether the dichotomy of mind and body, machine and algorithm actually exists or is meaningful, but of perhaps a bias that we have in how we describes machine that exhibit some intelligence. I think it is more common to speak of our minds as controlling our bodies than vice versa, but we don't seem to naturally extend that to machines with intelligence.
- jefft255 7y agoEven if that was true, the « mind » of most robots consist of mamy algorithms, some of which are not based on machine learning i.e. SLAM and path planning.
- somebodythere 7y agoI think of a robot as a complete system which was created by humans to do some task. This includes actuators, software, and sensors. With this in mind, the robot uses a machine learning system to help perform the task of picking lettuce.