Friday, July 6, 2018

Comments about robots

A good example is the find X in the cluttered drawer and figure out how to move an arm/hand to pick it up. Odds are we have the FLOPS, but it is still an unsolved problem. It's economic utility should be obvious.

How do humans find X in a cluttered drawer?

Humans have been trained on all the items in the particular drawer.  Tell the human to grab the mixing spoon.  The human was trained on all the items in the utensil drawer, so the human quickly sorts them. He knows the typical sortings for the kitchen draw, knows where in the sort a particular utensil lies, its index.   

Absent context, humans cannot do it.  Tell the human to find the screw driver in a random assortment on metal shapes, no shape having utility in the human memory.  It takes a while, some humans give up, ask the homeowner.

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