A Drop-In Solution for Replacing Human Labor? Kawada’s Nextage Robot

Re:A Drop-In Solution for Replacing Human Labor? Kawada’s Ne... by ftwinnovations on Saturday December 10, 2011 @09:16PM (#3339103)

Unfortunately I don't know any AI researchers who have done work in the past 5 decades. Would you care to share what would happen?

In all honesty I have no idea. Would they laugh and say that "no way AI needs another 20 years"? Or would they say it's only a few years until everyone working with their hands is out of work? Kudos on the pretentious reply btw.

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Re:A Drop-In Solution for Replacing Human Labor? Kawada’s Ne... by nl on Sunday December 11, 2011 @01:43AM (#3339474)

Reading about the AI Winter[1] will provide some useful background.

However, there is some evidence that it really is different this time. Big data makes a big difference to things like image recognition.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_winter

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Re:A Drop-In Solution for Replacing Human Labor? Kawada’s Ne... by finnw on Saturday December 10, 2011 @10:23PM (#3339208)

I imagine they will say "I've heard that same prediction every week for all of those 5 decades."

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