Artificial Intelligence Products
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The March 16, 2002 issue of The Economist makes reference to the infamous thinking compute rHAL that was introduced in 1969 in the Stanley Kubrik film ô2001: A Space Odysseyö. It declares: ô2001 has come and gone, and there is still no sign of a HAL-like computerö(AI 68). And this is true. The Artificial Intelligence products of today seem at times to have fallen a bit short of the HAL/AI prototype imagined by Kubrik in 1969, and at times AI seems to have developed quite a bit more radically than expected. Robots produced by world-renowned electronics and automotive makers such as Sony and Honda have wowed the public not so much with the abilities of the robots they have produced as with the four to five-figure pricetags that are customarily attached to them. On the other hand, biological computing labs within the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory reveal the essence of a biocomputing movement that is far more ambitious and advanced than the HAL model could ever have hoped to be. Consumer electronics giant Sony introduced in 2001 its latest products: Latte and Macaron, the newest pups in the Aibo robotic dog litter (Wearden). Aibo is derived from the two components ôAIö(short for Artificial Intelligence) and ôBOö(short for ôbotö), and is loosely translated to mean ôcompanionö in Japanese (AI 68). Sony boasts that advanced artificial intelligence- relying on a series of programmed genetic algorithms- provides its Aibo with the means to make its own decisions; in
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manner. HondaÆs ôI-WALKö(Intelligent Real-Time Flexible Walking) technology allows ASIMO to adapt for 3-D movements on stairs, flats, and slopes. ASIMOÆs body has 26 ôdegrees of freedom,ö giving it plenty of ability to move about (it is understood that the human body, by comparison, has 36 total degrees of freedom in its joints)(Honda ASIMO).
ASIMOÆs body contains a voice-recognition function that can recognize the direction of a source of a sound within a distance of up to 100 feet. ASIMO will hear a command, turn towards the source of that command, and then execute said command. Eventually, HondaÆs ASIMO will have fully 36 degrees of joint freedom, and will even be endowed with a more human-like face (Honda Introduces).
Similarly, MIT has introduced COG, best described by MIT as ôa set of sensors and actuators, which tries to approximate the sensory and motor dynamics of a human body,ö(Cog Project). MITÆs aim with COG is to develop a humanoid robot as nearly identical to a human as possible; in this, MIT theorizes that if COG can function in the physical world as a human does, then it may learn- with the right programming- to acquire human level intelligence. The entire motivation behind COG is summed up in this hypo
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