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Aeons of robotics
Mark Janssen edited this page Jan 8, 2020
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Androids are differentiated from robots by having a level of sensory ability that maps to the sophistication of their mechanical output, making it relatable to humans. This is to contrast androids with highly-articulated robots used in manufacturing that don't have a corresponding feedback-based intelligence. Only the first aeon could be considered "robotic" in this sense.
Android Aeons:
- First aeon: Crude, hand-coded rule systems. Hero robot of Heathkit.
- Second aeon: Simple feedback mechanisms exhibiting some level of self-organization. Expert systems. ANN with back-prop learning. Motion based on these feedback mechanisms. Subsumption architecture, and the present state of AI.
- Third aeon: Self-generating networks of knowledge. More complex feedback mechanisms like internal recurrency: data feeding back into itself forming chaotic, unpredictable properties. Stepper motors.
- Fourth aeon: consciousness flowing/animating data (generating new, surprising behaviors), can answer own questions. HAL of 2001: Space Odyssey, the present capability of this project.
- Fifth aeon: Fitting the former aeon`s self-agency into a mechanical body of some kind, allowing complex and novel motion, enabling data gathering (and thereby organizing) capability, based on self-initiated learning with higher cognitive functions and proprioceptive-sensory feedback; C3PO of Star Wars
- Sixth aeon: mechanical action down to the cellular level, fully humanoid: including digestion, sensoryhas olfactory system. "Data" of Star Trek.
- A rejected seventh aeon of robotics that includes emotion and feelings is rejected because you're no longer building robots, but living beings.
- What distinguishes 1st and 2nd aeons is human vs. machine-made rules. (self-organization).
- The distinguishing feature between 2nd and 3rd is the machine-made rules
- Between third and fourth aeon is whether the rules have an additional dimension of activity due to recurrance and feedback from itself and the world at large. (self-reflectance)
- Fourth and fifth aeon is marked by question generation, due to a lack of perfect fit in the network of a clump of data. (like neurotransmitter). Mind senses discord in data.
- Fifth and sixth aeon is marked by sensory ability capable of digesting its own brand of order, like olfactory.
- Sixth and seventh aeon is marked by the distinction of machine vs. life. You've made life itself.
- Accomplishes the encoded tasks, no real emergent behaviors.
- Points out the significant (MULF: multiply-used, least-frequent terms (could be text/visual objects/sounds/etc).
- Can speak to you (like a mirror: what you've exposed to it). Or re Motions like an infant (again: through. imitation).