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Saturday, August 02, 2003

 

Robot Reading

Currently reading The Turing Option, a 1992 sci-fi/action book by Harry Harrison and Marvin Minsky. (Yes, that Marvin Minsky, the famous MIT-connected roboticist.) Not interested in the "action" side of the plot, but quite interested in the AI part. I thought it'd be a more palatable way to absorb info about AI, robotics and the brain. Most interesting points so far: Human minds store info in a "messy" way, through association, through "societies" of meaning. Also: It takes from 30 minutes to an hour for new data to pass from short-term into long-term memory.

Also reading bits and pieces of Isaac Asimov's Robot Visions, an anthology of short stories and essays on robots and computers. In Robbie, Asimov's first robot story, a character makes the good point that it's not qualitatively different or interesting to converse with a robot which is merely an automated encyclopedia. I've thought of that point many a time already, in my attempt to develop ALICE 2.

Note: Imported from Websafe Studio blog (07-15-03 to 02-01-06). Updated: 08-08-03, 2:13 pm. There was one anonymous comment:

Wednesday, August 6, 2003 - 7:44 AM EDT

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ALICE -> MALICE in one move or less?

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