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Robots Invent Their Own Language
- toblender 15y agoThe robot overlords have spoken. Kill all humans.
- guimarin 15y agoThis is a very cool concept. I think it would be more realistic for the robots to communicate via some rf technology, as opposed to sound though. Communicating in sound requires a whole apparatus that is neither as efficient or fast as many others. Still a very neat approach.
- jonnathanson 15y agoThere is a legitimate benefit to developing sound recognition capabilities in machines. Sound is a very real part of the world around us. Most lifeforms capable of communication do so through sound. The sense of sound is a very important way of interacting with the environment. For these reasons, among others, robots will probably need sound-processing capabilities to successfully and fully navigate the world around them. As for whether they need sound-based languages, that's a good question. Presumably the folks developing AI would like to keep that AI at least somewhat anthropomorphized, so that we will always have a sense for what the robots are doing. It's much easier to interact with, and teach, a robot when we're capable of communicating with it on a common ground.
- ColinWright 15y agoFor those who are interested, they might like to look at the discussion from when this same story was submitted four months ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2556198 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2556198
- 16BitTons 15y agoI'm a bit confused. Did they invent their own language, or did they randomly assign names to places on a map?
- smallblacksun 15y agoThey randomly assigned names to places on a map (and then reconciled the names with each other so all the robots were using the same names). Which is impressive, but nothing like what the article claims.
- Flow 15y ago"THERE IS ANOTHER SYSTEM..."? :-D (Great movie, watch it: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064177/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064177/ )