I have come across this interesting piece of news about Biannual International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence deciding to evolve a common platform for all future robotic instructions. The surprising thing is about the new OS as opposed to the Microsoft OS which you guessed it right would want the scientific community to make itself the chosen OS for robotics. The scientific community is no doubt wise now knowing Microsoft’s ambitions to make it self indispensable.
But this is not what I wanted to write about. It is not the OS or the robotic instructions that have to be standardized but the need is for evolving a comprehensive robotic language that mimics all the five senses. It is when a language exists in which programs can be written that an OS can evolve.
The programs have to integrate what the robot sees which means image processing and dare I say image analysis, image comparison, storage, parallax corrections, integrating with a GPS which has become such a common place. These faculties have to be integrated with sound wave processing , touch and no doubt English Language (of course the Japanese would want their robots to Japanese language).
It is only when this happens that instructions can be used for movement in a particular direction, doing a particular action and speaking a particular sentence or thinking of a correct reaction to a situation.
Can the present computer languages have that capacity. If not some one should go about creating that situation.
So as I see it the need is not of an OS and app stores included but a medium that is required that makes the robots function.
Some how I do not like the word Artificial Intelligence. Any takers for the word “Programmed Intelligence” ?
@Binary soldier
yup.. hardwares are being evolved. only thing is about the programs. PROPERLY PROGRAMMED ROBOTS CAN EFFICIENTLY WORK SIMILAR TO HUMANS. ALL we need is to program it well.
This is an interesting point.
I’ve read a lot of interviews over the past year from the top AI researchers and most seem to agree that today’s languages, whilst buggy as hell to deal with, do have the full functionality (O.O.) required for controlling robots and AI’s, but it’s us who don’t yet know how to write the code. I think it’s around now that IBM are are due to release or produce a hardware that calculates as much as the human brain, and that the hardware is now not an issue.