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Schmoozing Robots Communicating Representations
Schmoozing Robots CNET has an article about a recent conference in Bristol, UK on "Biologically Inspired Robotics". There were many high-profile speakers including Luc Steels, described in the article -- Does Schmoozing Make Robots Clever? He belives that we need to focus on social interactions to take robotics to the next level, otherwise we won't get very far at all. Also, the turing test is a bad idea to him, as it's completely fake! "It's like saying you want to make a flying machine, so you produce something that is indistinguishable from a bird. On the other hand, an airplane achieves flight but it doesn't need to flap its wings." To be honest, it seems a very unfair metaphore, as the turing tests applies human-level intelligence to a problem characteristic of humans with all the major challenges. Not to mention the fact that Steels deals with machine intelligence (barely Aibo-level ;) rather than human-level intelligence (which doesn't necessarily need to be embodied). | NewsCaster 79 posts. Monday 19 August, 10:30 Reply