by: Adriana Roni C. Bombase
Artificial intelligence is an interesting topic, why? It’s all about robotics
and I love it. Now that we are in the robotics era, every appliance in our home
is made of machine even in some movies they used artificial intelligence. I
remember the A.I a movie in 2001 it is about a highly
advanced robotic boy longs to become "real" so that he can regain the
love of his human mother. Also in I, Robot by Will Smith it is
about a technophobic cop investigates a crime that may have been perpetrated by
a robot, which leads to a larger threat to humanity in the year 2035 they used
most advanced robotics. They use robotics to make the movie wonderful and
futuristic.
Are you familiar with Asimo?
Asimo is only one of the famous robots here in the planet. ASIMO is a humanoid
that has the ability to recognize
moving objects, postures, gestures,
its surrounding environment, sounds and faces, which enables it to interact with
humans. The robot can detect the movements of multiple objects by using visual
information captured by two camera "eyes" in its head and also
determine distance and direction. This feature allows ASIMO to follow or face a
person when approached. The robot interprets voice commands and human gestures,
enabling it to recognize when a handshake is offered or when a person
waves or points, and then respond accordingly. ASIMO's ability to distinguish
between voices and other sounds allows it to identify its companions. ASIMO is
able to respond to its name and recognizes sounds associated with a falling
object or collision. This allows the robot to face a person when spoken to or
look towards a sound. ASIMO responds to questions by nodding or providing a
verbal answer in different language and can recognize approximately 10
different faces and address them by name does not have feelings.
Asimo is only one of the robotics that uses artificial intelligence. Here are
some of my researches that will help us to improve and have a better
understanding about Artificial Intelligence (AI).
Artificial Intelligence is a branch of science mostly, but
not exclusively, computer science, concerned with making computers
"think". As a very broad topic, AI also relates to physiology,
philosophy, physics, mathematics and other scientific areas.
The term "Artificial Intelligence" itself was
coined in 1956 by John McCarthy from MIT at the "Dartmouth summer research
project on Artificial Intelligence."
Photo illustration by Slate. Photos by Thinkstock.
It is difficult to define intelligence. British scientists
Alan Turing stated that a computer can be called intelligent if it could
deceive a human into believing that it was human. His test consists of a person
asking questions via keyboard to both a person and an intelligent machine. A
scaled down version of the Turing test, better known as a Loebner Prize,
requires that machines have to "converse" with testers only on a
limited topic.
An AI need not care intrinsically
about food, air, temperature, energy expenditure, occurrence or threat of
bodily injury, disease, predation, sex, or progeny.
The field of Artificial intelligence ("AI") can
therefore mean many things to many people. The problem is that the word
'intelligence' is ill defined. The phrase is so broad that people have found it
useful to divide AI into two classes: strong AI and weak AI.
Strong AI makes the bold claim that computers can be made to
think on a level (at least) equal to humans. Weak AI simply states that
some "thinking-like" features can be added to computers to make them
more useful tools... and this has already started to happen.
One definition says that Artificial Intelligence is the
simulation of human intelligence processes by machines. The relatively new
field of Artificial Life takes a different approach in attempt to study and
understand biological life by synthesizing artificial life
forms.
Another distinction within AI is between “Statistical” and
“Classical AI”.
Statistical AI, arising from machine learning, tends to be
more concerned with "inductive" thought: given a set of patterns,
induce the trend. Classical AI, on the other hand, is more concerned with
"deductive" thought: given a set of constraints, deduce a conclusion.
Another difference, as mentioned in the previous question, is that C++ tends to
be a favourite language for statistical AI while LISP dominates in classical
AI.
A system can't be truly intelligent without displaying
properties of both inductive and deductive thought.
In the world of
computer science, computer-controlled robots can now perform tasks commonly
associated with intelligent beings like the ability to reason out, to discover
the meaning and to analyze things based on huge amount of data. Based
from these numerous data, the robots acted in a seemingly similar to human
reaction, as if the robot, which is mere metals, inanimate per se is now
capable of mimicking human actions.
My personal view on this matter is positive. In
the field of Medicine, this is being done. Robotics is now employed
to assist patients to help them in their medical needs. Given the
right program they can be of great help to persons with disabilities.
Others say that in the future, these
robots will take over us. And others are glad because of the benefits we can
get from AI. Its now up to you whether to take the robotics as a positive
invention or not. (ANAIRDA)
SOURCE: wikipedia, http://www.schloerconsulting.com
