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FRAGMENT FROM NATURE for this and next weekend is a contemplation of the commonly held idea that complexity in nature continues to increase. This is an attractive concept, and aligns with our own self-image as the height of evolution. It makes for a tidy world view. But biology is rarely tidy, and is more frequently full of exceptions, and these exceptions are at the heart of the remarkable diversity of the natural world. View in LinkedIn

PLAYFUL BOTS. "Useful, playful robots are the future at Tokyo exhibition." https://lnkd.in/dT9eBni View in LinkedIn

INDISTINGUISHABILITY TEST. "Convincing conversation has been the notorious measuring stick of AI since Alan Turing first proposed a test – now known as the Turing Test – that would pit a computer against a person in a conversational contest." https://lnkd.in/d4iuTqi View in LinkedIn

DEEP FAMILIARITY. "Until that gap is closed, it will remain difficult for machines to exhibit even the sort of everyday creativity required for the simplest tasks – like stringing words together with sufficient cogency to carry on a conversation." https://lnkd.in/d4iuTqi View in LinkedIn

REAL WORLD GAP. "At least one AI researcher has sought to give worldly knowledge to computers by force-feeding them. Douglas Lenat...is now more than two decades into a multimillion-dollar project to cram all the conceptual and factual material in an entire encyclopedia into a computer program." https://lnkd.in/d4iuTqi View in LinkedIn

EQ IN BOTS. "Inspired from biological systems, the robot has emotions which play important roles of behavior selection. Each robot feels frustration when its determination does not suit to its environment. Then, it changes its behavior to change its situation actively. The results show a potential of emotional intelligence in robotics." http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/login.jsp?tp=&arnumber=506527&url=http%3A%2F%2Fieeexplore.ieee.org%2Fxpls%2Fabs_all.jsp%3Farnumber%3D506527 View in LinkedIn

SPONTANEOUS COOPERATION. "This paper deals with spontaneous behavior for cooperation among distributed autonomous robots. Though a human gives the robots evaluation functions of the relation of cooperation among them, each robot determines its behavior depending on its experience and the behaviors of other robots. The robot acquires a model of behaviors of the other robots through teaming." https://lnkd.in/dQPQxaw View in LinkedIn

FINAL OUTCOME DRIVEN. "The robots detect that an action originally planned by one robot can be incrementally achieved by several robots with a “cumulative” effect and that this could be beneficial to the global performance." https://lnkd.in/gtncEXm View in LinkedIn

COORDINATED FUNCTIONALITY. "Biologists recognize that integrated system complexity is a feature of living systems. That is, some biological systems consist of component parts that interact in a coordinated way so that the system as a whole exhibits a specific function." https://lnkd.in/dJG4bYH View in LinkedIn

FLEXIBLE EXECUTION. "It may happen that various robots have planned actions which lead to the same world state. There should be some reasoning capabilities to allow them to decide when and which robot will perform actions that lead to the desired state while avoiding redundant executions." https://lnkd.in/gtncEXm View in LinkedIn