The ITALK project aims to develop artificial embodied agents able to acquire complex behavioural, cognitive, and linguistic skills through individual and social learning. This will be achieved through experiments with the iCub humanoid robot to learn to handle and manipulate objects and tools autonomously, to cooperate and communicate with other robots and humans, and to adapt to changing internal, environmental, and social conditions.
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by Andres, on March 09 2008:
When considering the future of robotics, many still imagine robots as being constrained to a single body. This footage can show people how robotic research could create artificial intelligence that can learn in both virtual, as well as physical environments, simultaneously. Further research opens the door to a line of artificial intelligence that can persist and have a wild range of experiences using their virtual avatars in many virtual worlds and simulations, as well as their robotic, physical representations.
When learning to overcome an obstacle, we humans can simulate in our minds how things could play out. This has allowed us to survive, helps us greatly in our daily lives and is truly a great evolutionary advantage. How might these abilities play out for an uploaded Intelligence or an AI. An intelligence that gains the ability to experience and learn, simultaneously, from various end points (a multitude of physical representations as well as simulated worlds), would have a lot of potential. If you can coordinate learning from all simultaneously, you could probably learn a lot faster. An evolutionary, technological equivalence of a Taju Kage Bunshin No Jutsu comes to mind.
Ahh H+, the possibilities are endless... :-)
by Andres, on March 09 2008:
Captured this alternative still if anyone wants to download it:
http://www.thoughtware.tv/images/thumbs/italk.jpg
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