Author: Pekka Karjalainen
Date: 04:13:35 05/07/01
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On May 06, 2001 at 05:00:56, allan johnson wrote: >Saw an interesting story on tv tonight.A professor Alfred Brooks,an ep-pat >aussie working in the US has created a robot that can genuinely learn. In The only Prof A. Brooks I could find in the web was mentioned here: http://www.wiu.edu/unews/westnews/fall00/blast.shtml :The last effort for any kind of renewed interest in theatre in the ravine took :place in the early 1960s. Dr. Ronald Gee, head of the speech and dramatic arts :department, and Professor Albert Brooks tried to revive the theatre. A stage, :lighting booth and concession stand were constructed. Gee and Brooks produced :four plays, but unfortunately, they would be the last four plays ever performed :in the ravine. Probably not the same fellow... The Professor Brooks who has worked on Cog (a robot) at MIT is called Rodney Brooks. Maybe it was him who they were talking about? http://www.ai.mit.edu/people/brooks/brooks.html >fact some of the scientists get so scared of the speed it learns at they turn >it off.It didn't say whether the learning process was accumulative or how it >happened.Myself I find it both scary but also exciting.Anyway the point is how >long before we have a HAL amongst us.Yes I know that some chess programmes >learn They shouldn't turn it off. One of these days it might learn how to report their research on the web, or anywhere for that matter. Obviously the scientists themselves haven't managed that yet. >but not in the way the robot Brooks has invented does. > Stephen King is so impressed he's planning to construct a movie on the >inventure.Just thought I throw this news in for a bit of discussion. Maybe King should make a movie about hoaxes posted to the Computer-Chess Club. Sorry, I am just a bit skeptical until something shows up corroborating the story. Last night on tv (and that was what channel and when?) does not count. Yes, there are robots which can learn. But who would be scared of the poor things? :-) >Cheers Al > Oh by the way does anyone know about Richard Harris's Awakening tapes? Not me... Pekka Karjalainen
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