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| Robots, philosophy: robot is a concept for technically realized spatially delimited mechanically acting systems that are able to fulfill defined tasks. The tasks are communicated to the system by means of a code. Further developments concern the increase of possible interfaces to the external world such as artificial sensory organs as well as the flexibility of possible responses of the system to commands. See also artificial intelligence, artificial consciousness, connectivity, learning, machine learning, neural networks, systems, zombies, autonomy, ethics._____________Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments. | |||
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Peter Gärdenfors on Robots - Dictionary of Arguments
I 255 Robot/Computer/Language/Understanding/Gärdenfors: there are two criteria or tests for the understanding of computers or machine operators: a) that they communicate b) that they draw conclusions. Robots-Semantics/Steels: naming game: (Steels, 1999(1); Steels & Kaplan 2002(2); Wellens & Loetzsch, 2012)(3): a sender tries to identify an object in the environment by making a recipient name an expression. --- I 256 This is only about objects that are present in a situation. Thus, the meanings are grounded. (Harnad, 1990(4), Williams et al., 2009(5)). Representation: for absent objects higher demands are placed on the representational abilities of a system. In such cases, it would be interesting how robots develop plans for future cooperation. For this purpose they needed, according to my theory, the representation of the force vector and the result vector as well as representations of agent properties and patiens properties. Language acquisition/Robots: my two-vectors model has immediate consequences for how verbs can be learned and used by robots. For result verbs: see Cangelosi et al. 2008(6); Lallee, Madden, Hoen & Dominey, 2010(7); Tikhanoff, Cangelosi & Metta, 2011(8); Beyer, Camiano & Griffiths, 2012(9)). Gärdenfors: I suggest that the corresponding method can also be extended to verbs of manner. --- I 257 Learning/Robot/Gärdenfors: the robot must then learn to map something from the force vector to the result vector. This type of associative mapping can be learned from observing the interaction of other agents with objects as well as one's own interaction. 1. Steels, L. (1999). The talking heads experiment. Antwerp: Laboratorium. 2. Steels, L. & Kaplan, F. (2002). Bootstrapping grounded word semantics. In T. Briscoe (ed.) Linguistic evolution through language acquisition: Formal and computational models (pp. 53-74). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 3. Wellens, P., & Loetzsch, M. (2012). Multi-dimensional meanings in lexicon formation. In L. Steels (Ed.) Experiments in cultural language evolution (pp. 143-166). 4. Harnad, S. (1990). The symbol grounding problem. Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena, 42, 335-346. 5. Williams, M.-A., McCarthy, J., Gärdenfors, P., Stanton, C., & Karol, A. (2009) A grounding framework. Journal of Autonomous Agents and Multi-agents systems, 19, 272-296. 6. Cangelosi, A., Metta, G. Sagerer, G. Nolfi, S. Nehaniv, C., Fischer, K. et al. (2008). The ITALK project: Intergration and transfer of action and language knowledge in robots. In Proceedings of Third ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human Robot Interaction (Vol 2, pp. 167-179). New York: ACM. 7. Lallee, S., Madden, C., Hoen, M., & Dominey P. F. (2010) Linking language with embodied and leleological representations of action for humanoid cognition. Frontiers in Neurobotics, 4, 1-12. 8. Tikhanoff,V., Cangelosi, A., & Metta, G., (2011).Integration of speech and action in humanoid robots: iClub simulation experiments. IEEE Transactions on Autonomous Mental Development, 3, 17-29. 9. Beyer, O., Camiano, P., & Griffiths, S. (2012). Towards action representation within the framework of conceptual spaces: Preliminary results. Cognitive Robotics, AAAI Technical reports WS-12-06._____________Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition. |
Gä I P. Gärdenfors The Geometry of Meaning Cambridge 2014 |
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Ed. Martin Schulz, access date 2024-04-19