Designing & building Robots

[Kizzi]

Will agile, dextrous self replicating intelligent robots, on par with humans, be a reality in the future, designed & built by humans, and eventually themselves?


Kizzi

[Kizzi]

Will the self-replicating robots be aware as well as intelligent?
How do you design awareness?
How do you design consciousness?
Are the Honda Robots that can balance on two legs aware of balancing?

Kizzi

[Tormod]

Those are very good questions. I don't have the answers, but for the time being I think we can safely assume that most of these questions will remain science fiction for a long time.

[bartock]

Originally Posted by Kizzi

Will the self-replicating robots be aware as well as intelligent?
How do you design awareness?
How do you design consciousness?
Are the Honda Robots that can balance on two legs aware of balancing?

Kizzi

is DATA(ST:TNG) aware or have conciousness?

[damocles]

Questions by Kizzi:

Will the self-replicating robots be aware as well as intelligent?

Eventually? Maybe. The first ones? No.

How do you design awareness?

Develop the self-learning-adaptive-to-stimilus algorithms and field test it in a machine against humans(UCAVs).

How do you design consciousness?

Build machines to use self-generated symbol sets to communicate with each and cross -program themselves in response to environmental stimulus.

Are the Honda Robots that can balance on two legs aware of balancing?

No.

[infamous]

Originally Posted by Kizzi

Will the self-replicating robots be aware as well as intelligent?
How do you design awareness?
How do you design consciousness?

I'm unable to answer any of these three questions but I do have a comment to make about artificial intelligence. And that comment would be; Artificial intelligence is, in my opinion, much closer to becoming a reality than we might expect. Once that happens, the acceleration of technology in all of these areas will amaze humanity. The question then becomes, are we ready to become subject to this higher level of intelligence that artificial technology will, without a doubt, force upon us?

Originally Posted by Kizzi

Are the Honda Robots that can balance on two legs aware of balancing?

Kizzi

Not yet, and I emphasize Not yet, would be my opinion.

[alxian]

within 7 years, honda and sony will be instrumental

[colin590]

its just a mater of time.

[jamongo]

I voted in the poll and chose 100 years. Actually I believe it will occur much sooner than that, but I can't change my vote.

Here is a short quote from an article I recently read:

Straight out of the pages of science-fiction - and Hollywood (see I, Robot) - scientists in the United States have managed to grow a brain in a dish.

Hopefully, that short piece will generate enough interest in some of the readers to follow this link to the complete article:

Click Here

As stated in this thread, "It is only a matter of time."

Jamongo

[Rebiu]

Originally Posted by Kizzi

Will agile, dextrous self replicating intelligent robots, on par with humans, be a reality in the future, designed & built by humans, and eventually themselves?
Kizzi

My sense is that the agility and dexterity will be possible in the near future.

Self-replication would depend on how fundamental the pieces available for assemble are available to the robot. If it simple welds the head to the body then I would suggest that is possible today. If he must fabricate microchips from raw elements that may be awhile. Humans require an entire ecosystem to self-replicate.

Intelligence is the real issue. If an artificial brain were capable of functioning in the way that a human brain does it would need a comparable environment to develop and learn in. Perhaps this development could be downloaded but that would suggest an inability of the robot to deal with nuance peculiar to its environment. If the robot brain must be raised like a child then it would have to offer some efficiency advantage over that person in order to be an alternative to using a person to do the job.