Rodney Brooks Roboticist, MIT (emeritus) What is artificial intelligence? Rodney Brooks: Artificial intelligence, to me, is trying to get computers and robots to do stuff that if people did them, you’d say, “Oh, they’re demonstrating their “peopleness.” And artificial intelligence is trying to get at that stuff that humans do. There are four challenges, and if we can make progress on any one of these challenges, our robots would be a whole lot better than they are today. The first thing is to get a robot to be able to have the visual object recognition capabilities of a two-year-old child. And the stuff that a two-year-old could do, like recognize a shoe or a chair, that’s the really hard stuff that we can’t do well yet. So there’s object recognition capabilities of a two-year-old child. By the time you get to be four years old, a child knows all of syntax of language, is really good at understanding different accents. So the language comprehension of a four-year-old child. A six-year-old child can tie shoelaces—way more dexterous than any of our robot hands. So let’s aspire for the manual dexterity of a six-year-old. And lastly, by the time you get to eight years old, you understand social interactions. They’re able to put themselves in people’s heads and understand what’s going on between each other. If we can make progress in any of those four, our robots are going to get a whole lot easier to interact with and a whole lot more useful.
Posted on: Mon, 18 Nov 2013 05:23:11 +0000
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