Food Serving Robot is a robot chef presented last week at Foom Tokyo, the international exhibition of technologies for the restaurant. FSR manufactures pancakes all the same, looking for the truth unappetizing. Aero Blue is however a small android trembling take loving human beings, just like the Disney cartoon of the little robot Wall. (E) used for the nourishment of our hypothetical descendants, so obese as to be unable to move from their beds trucks. Seriously Aero Blue, or a derivative thereof, may be useful to people immobilized by illness or trauma.
But the novelty in the new complex machines are just too many that is hard to name them. For example, CW100, developed by Korean Microbot, cleans like a vacuum cleaner remotely controlled by a 3G phone. So far nothing special. But note CW100 all, hears everything, record everything. It's just a matter of time and then someone will think to connect the robot to occhiutissimo type WhosHere iPhone applications. So goodbye privacy. Pale stuff to do Big Brother. And
what about Saya? It is the prototype of the artificial teacher, a "gineide" header in the elementary school Kudan, Tokyo. There, children learn science and technology from the lips of plastic on the other hand the depth of the Rising Sun invariably smile. But if the Japanese government decided to replace the obsolete teachers? Smile again?
Far more surprising, however, are two systems of artificial intelligence, recently reported by the magazine The Sciences. " The first is Adam, created by researchers at Aberystwyth University and Cambridge University headed by Professor Ross King. Adam, to say the least evocative name, is a robot scientist can design and then conduct biological experiments, evaluating results and even result in deciding which other tests are appropriate. The prototype produced a simple but entirely new discovery on the genomics of the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. After Adam - and expect - will Eve, which will be used to synthesize new drugs.
The second miracle is instead a program that is a virtual robot, developed by Hod Lipson and Michael Schmidt of Cornell University. Well, this software is even capable of "revealing" the laws of nature, without any previous programming simply "observing" phenomena, and deducing the regularity. So far, the wonderful mechanism logically concluded in a few hours, Isaac Newton's laws of motion. Soon it will be used to "study" the cosmological or biological systems. We therefore expect real breakthroughs. But the machines will make them, with or without human help.
What is most striking inventions that seem to change under a system of increasing proportion of human action is the lack of philosophical reflections on the consequences. Nietzsche called it the carefree lightness of engineers. It is also true that technologists do not have time and maybe even want to engage at the highest systems. Yet these innovations invest the entire human condition. Yes, but that How?
Try to fill the gap in the philosopher Carlo Sini Man, Machinery, automatic (Bollati Basic Books, 124 pp., 14 €) recently arrived in the library: a work that deals with an unusual perspective to the strange , indefinable automatic call screening (from autómatos, that moves by itself) that for millennia as the shadow follows the man. 'S automaton, or the Encyclopedists the android, perhaps forever renamed "robot" by the brothers Čapek, seems in itself stimulate metaphysical questions. The most famous is known as back to Descartes, who anxiously questioned toy car on the possible nature of human beings and animals. Sini on what short cuts. This is - according to him - a red herring, because at a glance all the products of technology (hence the robots that exhibit "conduct" more and more independent) are perfectly in tune with the salient feature of the human being: the ability to everted instruments, from language, the first and least obvious of all. The ultra-sophisticated robot such as hearing, technological extensions of the hands, senses and the brain?
is a view shared by many, for example by the theorists of the so-called "memetics." Sini peròinquadra the issue in a frame of reference neoevoluzionista, in line with Ratings by André Leroi-Gourhan and in keeping with a philosophy of practice individually blended to Peircean semiosis.
course, flatly deny the very idea of \u200b\u200bthe gap between man and his two artificial may perhaps be the only viable theoretical. So where does the fascination ambiguous vicarious humanity? If the varieties of artificial intelligence in construction are nothing but shapes constantly in transit, resulting from the ability of symbolic production, why fear them? And why do you ask for?
This is not the reassuring identity siniana between work and knowledge, according to the philosopher both real media Universal, in ever-expanding boundaries of which would fit well the epic of artificial intelligence, which has aroused the enthusiasm of scientists.
Just read John von Neumann, for example in the wide passages quoted in The world as a mathematical game, a wonderful biography of Giorgio Israel and Ana Millán Gasca (Bollati Basic Books), to note with dismay the extent to which this unreachable genius, a pioneer theorist of many contemporary inventions, came to believe in the hypothesis of radical discontinuity between man and his final self-replicating machines: the definitive Catholic as the pope described by writer Clifford D. Simak, however, is that a pope robot so humanly in search of a sense of himself and the universe. Machines outright, then, like the immortal robot in years without end, always Simak, once died out humanity, he tries to cultivate the intelligence of lower mammals. Perhaps to break the inescapable solitude of the perfect machine. There is a longing of man, also in AI by Steven Spielbeg. Giulio
Giorello, reviewing the Corriere della Sera "Sini's book, notes that a history of fantamatematica, with all its unspeakable projections, including supercomputers, has not yet been written. But it's like to acknowledge that the record should be writers, poets, visionaries and engineers. Who knows what position do the philosophers.
Perhaps because the writers do not have to prove, but only show. Isaac Asimov, the great visionary devices fantastic, as everyone knows was the father of a multitude of robots artists, poets, scientists, philosophers and even theologians. As the intelligent QT-1, in Reason, once assembled, it immediately begins to define itself in the usual Cartesian terms: I think, therefore I am, but then I owe my existence to a God who created me and to whom my substance must necessarily resemble. Certainly not the man, who is so inferior to me. Therefore God is eternal and perfect a mechanism, and QT-1 is his prophet.
Ineffable QT-1, mechanical Cartesian makes you smile and think. But not as much as another invention asimoviana: Stephen Byerley, the robot politician who even manages to be elected coordinator of the United States. A blessing for humanity, for three hypothetical Byerley must obey the laws of robotics, the so-called law and zero, which summarizes and generalizes, so that a robot must make the best decision for the good of political society. Too bad not yet been invented technologies to implement these qualities in us fallible human beings.
But the novelty in the new complex machines are just too many that is hard to name them. For example, CW100, developed by Korean Microbot, cleans like a vacuum cleaner remotely controlled by a 3G phone. So far nothing special. But note CW100 all, hears everything, record everything. It's just a matter of time and then someone will think to connect the robot to occhiutissimo type WhosHere iPhone applications. So goodbye privacy. Pale stuff to do Big Brother. And
what about Saya? It is the prototype of the artificial teacher, a "gineide" header in the elementary school Kudan, Tokyo. There, children learn science and technology from the lips of plastic on the other hand the depth of the Rising Sun invariably smile. But if the Japanese government decided to replace the obsolete teachers? Smile again?
Far more surprising, however, are two systems of artificial intelligence, recently reported by the magazine The Sciences. " The first is Adam, created by researchers at Aberystwyth University and Cambridge University headed by Professor Ross King. Adam, to say the least evocative name, is a robot scientist can design and then conduct biological experiments, evaluating results and even result in deciding which other tests are appropriate. The prototype produced a simple but entirely new discovery on the genomics of the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. After Adam - and expect - will Eve, which will be used to synthesize new drugs.
The second miracle is instead a program that is a virtual robot, developed by Hod Lipson and Michael Schmidt of Cornell University. Well, this software is even capable of "revealing" the laws of nature, without any previous programming simply "observing" phenomena, and deducing the regularity. So far, the wonderful mechanism logically concluded in a few hours, Isaac Newton's laws of motion. Soon it will be used to "study" the cosmological or biological systems. We therefore expect real breakthroughs. But the machines will make them, with or without human help.
What is most striking inventions that seem to change under a system of increasing proportion of human action is the lack of philosophical reflections on the consequences. Nietzsche called it the carefree lightness of engineers. It is also true that technologists do not have time and maybe even want to engage at the highest systems. Yet these innovations invest the entire human condition. Yes, but that How?
Try to fill the gap in the philosopher Carlo Sini Man, Machinery, automatic (Bollati Basic Books, 124 pp., 14 €) recently arrived in the library: a work that deals with an unusual perspective to the strange , indefinable automatic call screening (from autómatos, that moves by itself) that for millennia as the shadow follows the man. 'S automaton, or the Encyclopedists the android, perhaps forever renamed "robot" by the brothers Čapek, seems in itself stimulate metaphysical questions. The most famous is known as back to Descartes, who anxiously questioned toy car on the possible nature of human beings and animals. Sini on what short cuts. This is - according to him - a red herring, because at a glance all the products of technology (hence the robots that exhibit "conduct" more and more independent) are perfectly in tune with the salient feature of the human being: the ability to everted instruments, from language, the first and least obvious of all. The ultra-sophisticated robot such as hearing, technological extensions of the hands, senses and the brain?
is a view shared by many, for example by the theorists of the so-called "memetics." Sini peròinquadra the issue in a frame of reference neoevoluzionista, in line with Ratings by André Leroi-Gourhan and in keeping with a philosophy of practice individually blended to Peircean semiosis.
course, flatly deny the very idea of \u200b\u200bthe gap between man and his two artificial may perhaps be the only viable theoretical. So where does the fascination ambiguous vicarious humanity? If the varieties of artificial intelligence in construction are nothing but shapes constantly in transit, resulting from the ability of symbolic production, why fear them? And why do you ask for?
This is not the reassuring identity siniana between work and knowledge, according to the philosopher both real media Universal, in ever-expanding boundaries of which would fit well the epic of artificial intelligence, which has aroused the enthusiasm of scientists.
Just read John von Neumann, for example in the wide passages quoted in The world as a mathematical game, a wonderful biography of Giorgio Israel and Ana Millán Gasca (Bollati Basic Books), to note with dismay the extent to which this unreachable genius, a pioneer theorist of many contemporary inventions, came to believe in the hypothesis of radical discontinuity between man and his final self-replicating machines: the definitive Catholic as the pope described by writer Clifford D. Simak, however, is that a pope robot so humanly in search of a sense of himself and the universe. Machines outright, then, like the immortal robot in years without end, always Simak, once died out humanity, he tries to cultivate the intelligence of lower mammals. Perhaps to break the inescapable solitude of the perfect machine. There is a longing of man, also in AI by Steven Spielbeg. Giulio
Giorello, reviewing the Corriere della Sera "Sini's book, notes that a history of fantamatematica, with all its unspeakable projections, including supercomputers, has not yet been written. But it's like to acknowledge that the record should be writers, poets, visionaries and engineers. Who knows what position do the philosophers.
Perhaps because the writers do not have to prove, but only show. Isaac Asimov, the great visionary devices fantastic, as everyone knows was the father of a multitude of robots artists, poets, scientists, philosophers and even theologians. As the intelligent QT-1, in Reason, once assembled, it immediately begins to define itself in the usual Cartesian terms: I think, therefore I am, but then I owe my existence to a God who created me and to whom my substance must necessarily resemble. Certainly not the man, who is so inferior to me. Therefore God is eternal and perfect a mechanism, and QT-1 is his prophet.
Ineffable QT-1, mechanical Cartesian makes you smile and think. But not as much as another invention asimoviana: Stephen Byerley, the robot politician who even manages to be elected coordinator of the United States. A blessing for humanity, for three hypothetical Byerley must obey the laws of robotics, the so-called law and zero, which summarizes and generalizes, so that a robot must make the best decision for the good of political society. Too bad not yet been invented technologies to implement these qualities in us fallible human beings.
