Make Your Contribution to Robot Education
Robotics enthusiasts have the opportunity to contribute to research in artificial intelligence through the Open Mind Common Sense (OMCS) project based at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
The goal of the project is to build and utilize a large commonsense knowledge base through crowdsourced contributions. Through such a knowledge base, robots can be designed to work in environments like homes and offices more intelligently. Such robots need to have commonsense as well as recognize objects and indoor scenes.
Fill in the blank games are used to associate concepts; coffee is made in a coffee maker which is in a kitchen; to find out if it is raining one needs to look out of an open window; a master bedroom usually has a attached bath; and so on.
In its raw form, the OMCS database is simply a collection of freeform sentences that convey some common knowledge. In order to use this knowledge computationally, it has to be transformed into a more structured representation. So, a semantic network is created from the natural-language assertions in OMCS by matching them against patterns using a shallow parser. Then, the information in that network can be used as a basis for machine learning algorithms.
That technology, in combination with those being developed by companies such as AprioriControl, is facilitating next generation robotics. This software program provides a web-based platform capable of controlling robotic components via the internet.
Another technology news site points out the long-running debate about the extent to which artificial intelligence should resemble humans. Clouding that debate are the many human-type tasks which humans can’t do but would be valuable. Looking for hot spots in forest fires, for example or searching earthquake-stricken areas for survivors.
What are your thoughts on the future of robotics? Is there a risk of crossing a line in AI resemblance to humans?
Add your Comment
[LOGIN FIRST] if you're already a member.fields are required.