The Integration of Artificial Intelligence into Robots
By Artificial Intelligence (AI) we generally understand machine intelligence. But this is really only a relative definition. Taken at a broader point of view and looking at the people we see on television or in our daily lives, for example, we can easily conclude that the intelligence they possess is surely just as artificial as that of a machine. Nothing original comes out and there seems to be very little self awareness. Experiments to build artificial intelligences go back a long way. In 1946 British mathematician Alan Turing developed a chess algorithm for use with calculating machines; it lost to an amateur player in the one game that it played. Furthermore, well before the modern age men have sought to build or endow intelligence onto machines. The classical Greek mythology is full of intelligent machines and devices and while men such as Hero and Daedalus constructed the hardware, philosophers like Aristotle invented the first formal deductive reasoning system for machines known as syllogistic logic. And so it has continued until today, several thousand years later, when we are coming to a point where we can see the beginnings of real artificial intelligence brought about by our advanced knowledge of technology. Where it will lead us is uncertain. There are really no technological limits apparently, and what we do with our intelligent machines and to what extent and purpose we develop them is another part of the ethical and moral issue surrounding artificial intelligence. As the future of advanced robotic artificial intelligence becomes the present, and starts to intertwine itself into our day-to-day activities, our society will have to face and overcome numerous daunting ethi ...