On 10/11/2007, Jef Allbright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At the DARPA Urban Challenge last weekend, the optimism and flush of > rapid growth was palpable, but as I was driving home I approached a > truck off the side of the road, its driver pulling hard on a bar, > tightening the straps securing the load. Without conscious thought I > moved over in my lane to allow for the possibility that he might slip. > That chain of inference, and its requisite knowledge base, leading to > a "simple" human behavior, are not even on the radar horizon of > current AI technology.
I was saying to someone recently that it's hard to watch something like the recent Urban Challenge and argue convincingly that AI is not making progress or that it's been a failure. Admittedly the intelligence here is not smart enough to carry out the sort of reasoning you describe, such as "I see a large object and predict that it may be about to fall so I better move out of the way". However, the path to this sort of ability just involves more accurate 3D modelling of the environment together with intelligent segmentation and some naive physics applied. It's the perception accuracy/modeling which is key to being able to implement these skills, which a mouse may or may not be capable of (I don't know enough about the cognitive skills of mice to be able to say). ----- This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http://v2.listbox.com/member/?member_id=8660244&id_secret=63859193-c54189