Robotic Intelligence

Outline

Robot and Baby

How can a robot think like that?

Reasoning

Planning

Recognition

Demonstration programs

AI

• alife:  Game of Life by Conway   (executable   zip    life.zip )
• eliza: conversational program, a classic AI example (executable   zip    eliza.zip )
Joseph Wiezbaum's result of trying to make a program converse in English amazed people when it appeared in mid 1960's. The program was able to converse about any subject, because it stored subject information in data banks. Another feature of Eliza was its ability it picked up speech patterns. notably, after creating one of the most famous programs Wiezbaum objected to the bonds that interviewees were making with his creation, and denounced the intelligence of Eliza.
• shrdlu:
  

• SHRDLU and block worlds

•    Terry Winograd did his doctoral thesis using  a "block world" understanding.  His system can converse with a user in English and can reason about the action in the microworld.
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• 1. pick up a red block
  OK

  2. find a block which is taller than the one you are holding and put it into the box.
  By "it," i assume that you mean the block which is taller than the one i am holding. OK.

  3. what does the box contain?
  The blue pyramid and the blue box

  4. what is the pyramid supported by?
  the box

  5. how many blocks are not in the box?
  four of them

  6. is at least one of them narrowed than the one which I told you to pick up?
  yes, the red cube

  7. is it supported?
  yes, by the table

  8. can the table hold blocks?
  no

Biped robot

References