Artificial Intelligence/robots

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Expert: - 9/12/2007


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Watching movies, I get the impression that we really want to have robots with all of us. But only robots that can actally "think," not read from a list of 'yes/no' answers.

I know such robots - eventually - will be everywhere. Do you think this will happen in the next 20-50 years? Or a LOT longer in the future. I read there is two present problems; intelligence and ability to walk.  Thanks for the time. Looking forward to hearing from you.

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Yes - 20-50 years - something like that.  But these will be pretty basic, nothing like what you see in the movies.  The ability to walk has already been mostly solved by Honda (of all people). The ability to talk and see and converse - that is the real problem.

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Chuck Cosby

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I can answer questions about speech recognition and natural language understanding. I am particulary strong in knowedge based natural langauge techniques. I cannot answer questions about robotics, nueral nets, prolog, or vision recognition - just speech and natural language.

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I have spent 25 years developing natural language software products. I have never developed speech systems, but I have developed sophisticated interfaces from natural language to speech. I have been working with speech recognition systems also for 25 years.

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