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Are the dialogs at Sophia's (the robot) appearings scripted?
Sophia uses ChatScript.
You can read about what ChatScript can do here.
ChatScript keeps track of conversations with each user; can record
where it is in a conversational flow and what facts it ...
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What is the difference between artificial intelligence and robots?
Although there are several definitions of "robot", an essential feature of everything called "robot" is that it is capable of movement. This does not necessarily mean displacement; a robot arm in a ...
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How can thousand-robot swarm coordinate their moves without bumping into each other?
There has been quite a few approaches to achieve such kind of distributed coordination. I present here one of them, for its generality and simplicity (that makes it easy to remember too). But first, ...
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What jobs cannot be automatized by AI in the future?
The Oxford study from 2013 in The future of employment paper assess this and estimated the probability of computerisation for 702 detailed occupations using a Gaussian process classifier (using job ...
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What is the difference between artificial intelligence and robots?
In the broadest sense, the difference is that non-robotic A(G)I may not be possible because, as per this question, it could be that "Intelligence requires a body".
More specifically, it could be that ...
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Is the smartest robot more clever than the stupidest human?
The "baseline humans" you describe have been historically described in the media industry as "the lowest common denominator" (LCD).
The LCD is the broadest possible audience for content, ...
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What jobs cannot be automatized by AI in the future?
What are some jobs that can never be automated?
None.
The key word here is "never". Technology is rapidly advancing, and while I can think of situations where jobs can't be killed in the short-term ...
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What is the difference between artificial intelligence and robots?
In a general sense you can say that robot is a piece of hardware, while AI is software (sometimes hardware too).
Wikipedia states Robot as a machine which performs complex set of tasks ...
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How to achieve recognition of postures and gestures?
Just to add some discourse; this is actually an incredibly complex task, as gestures (aka kinematics) function as an auxiliary language that can completely change the meaning of a sentence or even a ...
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Is the smartest robot more clever than the stupidest human?
First Question
To treat this question in a scientific way, because I think it is a reasonable enough question that draws on the realities of postmodern culture in post industrialized societies to be ...
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Is the smartest robot more clever than the stupidest human?
Some fields that humans are born with advantages:
Fast and precise image processing ability. Even the stupidest human can tell the edge of two different objects precisely, e.g. which part of the ...
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Which type of Machine Learning is used in robots?
Robotics primarily uses RL and supervised learning. To give examples:
Supervised Learning is used for vision and perception
Reinforcement Learning is used for control
Unsupervised Learning for ...
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How does Atlas from Boston Dynamics have human-like movement?
Because Boston Dynamics is a private, for-profit, company, we cannot know for sure how they achieve their results. However, we can examine the available public information and make educated guesses.
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What if we took a recursive approach and built a smallest possible robot?
Lost Article and Found Articles
MIT Review had an article on nanotechnology for disease eradication, DNA repair, and microsurgery in the 1990s that's probably somewhere among the thousands of entries ...
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Is the smartest robot more clever than the stupidest human?
Survival, Imagining, Moral Reasoning
The thing that comes to mind is a new-born, when you said "the stupidest human", and it already has some basic “survival instincts”. It will avoid pain, ...
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Is it ethical to implement self-defence for street walking AI robots?
It depends on whether the loss of the robot would end up causing harm to humans.
If the robot was supposed to be watching for a suspected terrorist attack to start taking place (so it could alert ...
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Is it ethical to implement self-defence for street walking AI robots?
The question mentions "walking robot", but it may be illustrative to re-frame the discussion in terms of self-driving cars, because:
It gives a common point of reference, rather than everyone having ...
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Could a multi-camera SLAM system that is accurate at low driving speeds be equally accurate at high driving speeds?
It would probably be accurate at higher speeds, if the processing system that processes the information from the camera system can process the information in real time. It looks like it can, but you ...
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What jobs cannot be automatized by AI in the future?
Anything that can be broken into set of instructions will be automated, and contained in a narrow trajectory. But we will have the ability to deep between those different skills.
Wrote more about ...
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What jobs cannot be automatized by AI in the future?
Probably the only secure jobs are those where the audience enjoys watching live human craftsmanship take place in real time right before their eyes, like acting or standup comedy or musical virtuosity ...
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What jobs cannot be automatized by AI in the future?
If you were to completely automate a human, you'd just have another human, which defeats the purpose of the automation.
Any job that requires a "whole human," rather than just a human's hands, feet, ...
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How to achieve recognition of postures and gestures?
There is some research on this topic. See, for example, the papers Robot Identification and Localization with Pointing Gestures (2018) and Proximity Human-Robot Interaction Using Pointing Gestures
and ...
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What is the difference between artificial intelligence and robots?
Simply we say AI is software and robot is its body.
This is because the algorithms we commonly think of AI come in the form of software, where when we talk about robots, we're talking about physical ...
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What is the difference between artificial intelligence and robots?
Basically a robot is a mechanical or virtual artificial agent which exhibit intelligent behavior (AI).
Tim Urban on Wait But Why website wrote the following to clear things up:
First, stop thinking ...
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