Making Progress Toward Genius Machines

 Artificial Intelligence  

Ben Goertzel and David Hanson are hard at work in Hong Kong trying to create intelligent robots.  Their latest creation, Zoidstein is a talking robot with developing capabilities.

David Hanson, Mark Tilden, Ben Goertzel, the OpenCog Hong Kong and Hanson Robotics Hong Kong teams are making progress on creating what they call "Genius Machines".

"Believe me when I show you a talking robot using OpenCog understanding on the back end, I will let you know.  If all goes well that will happen in 2015."

The robot is constructed from a prototype Hanson Robotics Zeno robot with an Albert Einstein head.

According to Goertzel, the dialogue system used in the video above is more than a database look-up, but less than an OpenCog-based intelligent dialogue system. It was created by Man Hin Leung in the OpenCog HK Poly U lab, and called ZenoDial. Goertzel says it is somewhat analogous to a system like Siri.

The system selects replies from among multiple sources in a sometimes-judicious way.  The team is using ZenoDial for prototyping human-robot interactions.

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"In the OpenCog lab in Hong Kong, we're working on a more thoroughly intelligent dialogue system (using OpenCog fully)," says Goertzel but it's not ready for demonstration yet.

"Believe me when I show you a talking robot using OpenCog understanding on the back end, I will let you know.  If all goes well that will happen in 2015," he claims.




SOURCE  Ben Goertzel

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