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In article <1167481221.967634.14250@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "Franz
Gnaedinger" <frgn@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Yesterday I read
> a mind-boggling article and wish you to ask a question.
> Hud Lipson, Josh Bongard and Viktor Zykov at Cornell
> University built a robot with a central modul and four
> bendable extremities, informed it about its elements,
> and ordered it to walk. The robot began to calculate,
> it carried out sixteen calculations for every move,
> then it began to walk, not elegantly, but it moved on,
> and when one extremity was removed, it began to
> calculate anew, and then moved on in a new way.
> The robot was not built for walking, it was just informed
> about its elements and given an order to walk. Now for
> my question. How can a robot understand such an order?
> Can you also give it an order such as: Maintain yourself
> ... ? Living beings are entitites that maintain themselves.
> Are robot crossing the treshold to life? I never hold this
> possible.
In addition to the other reply you got, you might try the Usenet newsgroup
comp.ai. I do not know much about this. :-)
> Wishing you a Happy New Year
You too.
--
Hans Aberg
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