170224 LANGARA Feature Writing BONNIE LEE LA MADELEINE Assignment: Feature Story #2, Jun Tani For Peg Fong Emerging In that moment just before a soap bubble pops, its membrane will quiver frenetically. As Qrio, one of the humanoid robots that littered Jun Tani’s lab, puzzled out the difference between grasping a cup and moving it from side to side, the tension in the room felt like a soap bubble in its death throws. Jun Tani, a neuro-robotics scientist who was teaching Qrio, looked like he was going to pop. The problem seems simple. For months, Tani had been training Qrio to perform two tasks with his arms: 1) pick up a the mug, and 2) move the move from side to side. However, Tani had stripped the child-size robot of its original software …show more content…
He believes that robots with the right type of programming are ideal research models for understanding the brain: better, he argues, all those transgenic mice that garner headlines in the newspapers. He is trying to understand how a blank slate, with no knowledge of movement might start to understand …show more content…
A seven-inch stick with a ball on the top extended out from a platform on the table. The mechanism is connected to its brain via a cable, and Tani watches what happens in that brain on a monitor in the next room during a single training session and any experimental run. (The complete set of data are analyzed later, once the "brain" is downloaded to the computer in his office.) The joystick is taught how to move by an external teacher. Once the lesson is over, the joystick demonstrates what it has learned by executing, to the best of its ability, the learned movement. This is not a programmed path that the robot takes, it is a path that the robot chooses based on its understanding of what it has learned. This is a fundamental difference between the robots at Disney and that joystick. The joystick never gets the movement it was taught exactly right. It gets close, but never exact. However, two other key observations emerged from his experiments with this robot that helped him see that he was heading down the right path to creating a robot with a human-like learning
Andy Clark strongly argues for the theory that computers have the potential for being intelligent beings in his work “Mindware: Meat Machines.” The support Clark uses to defend his claims states the similar comparison of humans and machines using an array of symbols to perform functions. The main argument of his work can be interpreted as follows:
deep need to probe the mysterious space between human thoughts and what is a machine can
David starts out by telling us about the general attitude of a Know-Nothing, stating that
The way he emphasizes the difference between acquisition and learning, brings a whole new level to education. Using this knowledge, we can develop an education system that will help our youth stay on track and understand what they’re learning and why they’re learning it. This could be particularly helpful with elementary education, when the children are still developing what it means to learn. By redefining the education system, we’ll be able to help our children reach their real potential. If we understand how to teach, it will be a million times easier to connect with the children. We can help our next generation become properly educated about the world that they’re
“He’s never seen anything before,” Mr. Head continued. “Ignorant as the day he was born, but I mean for him to get his fill once and for all.” P.254
Animal rights are practically non-existent in many different ways today. Factory farming is probably the worst thing they can do to the poor helpless animals. Factory farming effects chickens, cows, pigs, and many other animals that are used for food, milk and eggs. One of the biggest organizations against factory farming is called Compassion Over Killing (COK). They go to great lengths to protest and inform people about animal cruelty.
Melnik. "Cybernetics, genetic engineering and the future of psychotherapy." Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies, vol. 25, no. 1-2, 2013, p. 39+. General OneFile,
Asimov’s robots are silent, expensive, metal machines with glowing red eyes. They are employed as construction workers, assembly line workers and domestic workers. Robbie, the nursemaid robot of the main character Gloria, cost the family half of a year’s income. He gives Gloria silent affection and attention while doing menial tasks for her parents. Robbie is also extremely agile, which aids him in taking care of his masters’ daughter. It would seem that even though Robbie is a bit unsightly, he does everyday functions (except for talking) with relative ease. This, however, is not the case in 2010.
Those similarities make it infinitely easier to make computer models of the brain. "We already have built models which allow us to understand what is going on more quickly," Sutton notes. "Many types of mental illness may result from disorders of this organization. Understanding the details of what is happening will allow us to help real people with real suffering."
Bar-Cohen, Y. (2009). The coming robot revolution expectations and fears about emerging intelligent, humanlike machines. Springer.
It is fascinating that non-living things can think reason, plan, solve problems, and perceive, just like humans can. Robots and systems became sentient beings that were self-aware, going against their defining trait (that robots and machines lack emotion).
Nowadays, technology is a dominant feature in the lives of people around the world. Most of daily life activities involve the use of technology which is expanding every day through scientific innovations. However, such innovations do not always occur in every part of the world, but mostly in technologically developed countries, such as South Korea, the USA and Japan. Presently, the development of robotics science has become a subject of considerable attention in those countries. According to Weng, Chen and Sun (2009, 267), “Technocrats from many developed countries, especially Japan and South Korea, are preparing for the human–robot co-existence society that they believe will emerge by 2030.” The word “robot” was introduced in the beginning of 1920th by the Czech playwright Karel Capek from the Czech word “robota”, meaning “forced labor” (Robertson 2007, 373). According to Robertson (2007, 373), robot, in practical usage, can be defined as an autonomous or semiautonomous device that is used to perform its tasks either controlled by human, fractionally controlled and with human guidance or regardless of external actions that are performed by people. Regrettably, the majority of robots in the past centuries could not operate without human control and intervention. However, the progress in robotics over the past few decades enabled humanity to achieve soaring results in creation of autonomous humanoid robots.
Robots have many tasks to accomplish in the world, from doing work to playing with humans. Generally, there are few types of robots for these jobs. There are general-purpose robots used to do many functions like walking around or talking to people. Some of these can move by themselves, and some of them try to mimic humans. Robots are also used to work rapidly and efficiently. Factory robots are usually cheaper than human workers, and they can work more efficiently. They can assemble...
Through a robot body, one can utilize AI algorithms to portray individual thinking. The first general purpose robot is called Shakey. Developed at the Stanford Research Institute from 1966 to 1972, Shakey was the first robot to think in advance. For example, Shakey was able to understand a command such as turn off a light switch in a particular room. The robot would go through a corridor, find the room and then locate and turn off a light switch. Shakey could complete an action without the need of step-by-step instructions. The LISP software was used to program Shakey. The development of Shakey advanced AI concepts from the invention of the A search algorithm to the understanding of the full capabilities of robots. Shakey raised the public’s awareness of computer science and artificial intelligence in the 1970s. Shakey moved public thoughts to questioning what machines could and will do in the future. (Artificial Intelligence and Robotics , 2015) To further the public’s thoughts about machine intelligence is IBM’s Deep Blue Computer. Deep Blue won a chess competition against famous chess champion Garry Kasparov. Deep Blue’s win was one of the first real instances of the competition of humans versus