tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8584840770244929.post2977693613410445688..comments2024-03-11T04:17:23.566-07:00Comments on The Alien Next Door: We, Robot--Part 2: Artificial Intelligence TodayNina Munteanuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00311070435293186699noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8584840770244929.post-67348128492336299472008-10-24T01:38:00.000-07:002008-10-24T01:38:00.000-07:00LOL, Graywave... you're probably right about the i...LOL, Graywave... you're probably right about the insects. I think they're certainly FASTER than most AIs! And, yes, heuristics is something even we ecologists were playing around with back in the late 70s (ohoh... this ages me!)like in the heuristic models of reservoir zonal stratification and movement, for instance. Actually, a lot of ecological investigations use heuristic models because the environments we are studying are so complex and dynamic that determining paradigms through "learning by doing" is sometimes the best way to start. Chaos theory and non-linear relationships are another approach to studying ecology.Nina Munteanuhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00311070435293186699noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8584840770244929.post-17754097718426084282008-10-24T01:29:00.000-07:002008-10-24T01:29:00.000-07:00Cool thoughts, Brie's guy! Very good points about ...Cool thoughts, Brie's guy! Very good points about the emotional aspects of chess... Lots of human-related tactics just wouldn't work on Deep Blue, who might be construed to be as boring as our friend Bob with the cool phone... :)Nina Munteanuhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00311070435293186699noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8584840770244929.post-64584013159689806312008-10-24T00:49:00.000-07:002008-10-24T00:49:00.000-07:00Pretty Good Article Nina!A couple of thoughts -Com...Pretty Good Article Nina!<BR/><BR/>A couple of thoughts -<BR/>Computers do not yet "compose" music. Computers do create some musically valid pieces based on a set of rules that a programmer/musician creates. A company out of Victoria created program called "Band in a Box" where the user (me) can enter a set of chords, the key for the piece, tempo and choose a "style" from a list that comes with the software and then create a song with a musically valid Bass, drums, piano, guitar parts. I can then tweak the results to tell the program more about the song structure and where to place drum fills. It even includes a limited amount of randomness (depending on the style) such that every time you play the song it comes out a little different based on the parameters set up for the style. Works pretty good for a guitar player that does not play drums and bass. But in the end, the composition based on my input and the creator of the program and the computer is just the tool. <BR/><BR/>Similar to mandelbrot set generators. The generators can create very interesting pictures but it is just a stylized rendering of a mathematical formula.<BR/><BR/>BTW: With the GPS embedded in most smart phones the real time tracking of people is already here. There is an application for Apple's iPhone that allows a group of friends to share their locations with each other - Bob tweets that the music is hot at the club he's at and Sue, Chuck and Barb can see on a Google style map where Bob is and how to get there and then converge (Unless Bob is boring then they know where stay away from :) <BR/><BR/>Never confuse game playing machines with intelligence. They follow very specific rules. Regarding Kasporov vs Deep Blue and Chess: Sucess in chess is proportional to how many possible next moves you can "look ahead" to then choose the move that will take you on the path with the highest probabilty of winning. Rookie chess players will only evaluate 1 or 2 levels ahead and only for a limited number of pieces in play. The better players move out to 4 moves or more and look at more pieces. Deep Blue was set up to be able to look much farther out than any human could. But the weighting of what determines a better outcome was based on programmers creating models bsaed on advice from chess experts. The other important factor, chess has a big emotional context - Intimidation, bravado, deceptions, key elements that Kasporov could not use against Deep Blue. - Note: if you want an edge against a computer - Throw it a move that no chess player in his right mind would do (might not trip up Deep Blue but I have used it against some computers to win).<BR/><BR/>Time to drop to minimal power and enter sleep mode....zzzz<BR/><BR/>Brie's GuyAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8584840770244929.post-66556014254568026272008-10-24T00:23:00.000-07:002008-10-24T00:23:00.000-07:00Hmmm. I think you're being a bit unfair to insects...Hmmm. I think you're being a bit unfair to insects there. I can't think of a single robot around today that wouldn't be blown out of the water by your average insect.<BR/>And 'heuristics' is definitely not a new approach in AI - the idea was well established when I started in the field in the early 1980s.<BR/>But the general oint you make is a good one - AIs are really dumb right now but they can still be useful. However, don't hold your breath waiting for the 'singularity' to happen!graywavehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11609426782409481706noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8584840770244929.post-56112063527921426622008-10-23T15:58:00.000-07:002008-10-23T15:58:00.000-07:00EEK! Science fiction or fact?... Doesn't exactly p...EEK! Science fiction or fact?... Doesn't exactly promote confidence does it? Of course, we know how that all ended...Nina Munteanuhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00311070435293186699noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8584840770244929.post-9379986943658836682008-10-23T12:22:00.000-07:002008-10-23T12:22:00.000-07:00I heard a company that creates robots and technolo...I heard a company that creates robots and technology calls itself 'Cyberdyne' after the group that started the terminators!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8584840770244929.post-24165243745858481762008-10-23T01:36:00.000-07:002008-10-23T01:36:00.000-07:00Cool! I'll have to check what Rolf Pfeifer is doin...Cool! I'll have to check what Rolf Pfeifer is doing. Many thanks for the comment and sharing the link!Nina Munteanuhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00311070435293186699noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8584840770244929.post-25447826960864933482008-10-22T23:15:00.000-07:002008-10-22T23:15:00.000-07:00I would like to add one commet:Broooks has an Euro...I would like to add one commet:<BR/>Broooks has an European counterpart, Rolf Pfeifer. The webpage of his lab is www.ailab.ch and he has two books on new AI<BR/>"Understanding Intelligence" 2001 and ""How the body shapes the way we think" 2005<BR/><BR/>Good article!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com