Friday, August 24, 2012

AIs, robots, and humans

In the opening lecture of intro AI (CS 260), I discussed some contrasts between what AIs and robots were capable of, having come a long way, but have a long way to go -- I used these videos to illustrate some points:

   Bigdog (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNZPRsrwumQ); 
   Asimo (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3C5sc8b3xM); 
   Dr. J (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7njB1T-Xjk); 
   Willie Mays (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dK6zPbkFnE ); 

I'm not sure Asimo could get back up if it fell!!! 

There are differences in mental abilities too (e.g., categorization and pattern matching:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eq-AHmD8xz0 ), but the cognitive prothesis view suggests that AI can be used to augment myopic and otherwise limited human reasoning (e.g., Dan Ariely http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9X68dm92HVI ) to yield a powerful human/AI hybrid intelligence.

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