Artificial Intelligence

[Chris Bennett]

A couple of ticks in the multiple question version of the Turing test.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=W1czBcnX1Ww

What's truly amazing to me about the Big Dog is that it "learned" how to walk on ice in just a few seconds, no prior programming for that exact situation. Very clever indeed. The fact that it weighs over 200 pounds and can jump and trot too is pretty good stuff.
The response when it was kicked was not programmed but was an 'on the fly' answer to the occasion - it looked so uncannily 'alive'......

[Justice Von Brandt]

Ive seen this video before but it still scares me. Put that in any haunted house and I'm out of there :P

I wish I were smart enough to build robots:(

[Hybrid_75]

Whoa, it totally looked alive. A bit scary, I just happened to be listening to the decepticons theme from the transformers soundtrack, but even so. How long till we can hook some robotic legs up to a living thing, would that be cheating in sport? they let that guy with blades compete who knows.

[bklyndude326]

It looks like an alien lol and sounds like a big ass fly buzzing in my ear, but its reflexes are insane.... terminator... :D

[timpaatkins]

Ive seen this video before but it still scares me. Put that in any haunted house and I'm out of there :P



Hmm, one would think the haunted part would be enough....

[Justice Von Brandt]

Well I was meaning the fake haunted houses, ones with people in costumes

[Lone Wolf]

That is amazing, but scary. It really makes you wonder about the future of robotics.

[HunterKiller_]

They have an updated model.

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[TASmith]

the updated model's better. There's a good article about robots in the latest economist. I love watching the robot soccer games.

[Ashtonw]

The part where it slips on ice is so creepy. It could be a creature from D&D, it was clearly made by an evil sorceror.

But it's not as useful as Yellow Drum Machine. (http://youtube.com/watch?v=_RyodnisVvU)

[ChristianWeeks]

that updated model is absolutely hilarious
I had to struggle from laughing out aloud in the computer lab. I failed and got some funny looks lol

[stoph]

HK you made me lose it just now! hahaa, the scene where "it" is on the swingset = priceless! :D

[Dirty C]

Just thinking about applications for this. I suppose the first thing that comes to mind is going plein air painting in the mountains and not wanting to carry anything. That one was carrying 340 pounds of load, which could include a hell of a lot of stuff. Wonder how it'd come with loads that weren't symmetrically loaded.

Imagine if these replaced bike messengers hehehe

[dark eagle]

I think this will soon(well 100 years) lead to a fate simmilar to the "real world" in the matrix, only without a neo...

[Barber]

the matrix...terminator...all films alike...we already know our fate.

lol.doomed I say.One day mr big dog will realise "wait a sec..i don't HAVE to do this...erm..excuse me humans...DIE"


etc.

[~Faust~]

Shouldn't we find natural intelligence first? All I see is an imaginary concept made up by some nerds in order to get laid. And is it working? So much for intelligence.

[daestwen]

It's actually really interesting. I was reading about it, and the reason it can 'learn' to do that is because it does it's computing backwards. Instead of looking, processing, then sending the information to the legs, the legs do, then send the information back to process. (I'm probably not explaining this very well, but.)

There was an article on it, either in Discover or Scientific American... really fascinating stuff.