“In many cases, humans use their own knowledge about actions to recognize those actions in others,” he told me. “If a robot knows how to grasp, it has b

“In many cases, humans use their own knowledge about actions to recognize those actions in others,” he told me. “If a robot knows how to grasp, it has better chance of recognizing grasping actions of a person,” he said. Metta is going one step further, by teaching iCub to follow social cues, like directing its attention to an object when someone looks at it. These cues become another channel through which to collect privileged information about a complex world. This article kept getting better and better. I thought this was particularly interesting because it leads to a world where the AI software is available to all, but what's of value is the rules or metaphors you've developed for your robots. That would give garage hobbyists a chance of coming up with their own special formulas and possibly be the ones to figure out something novel or world-altering in AI.