Day 26: irobots the history of the subject through the lens of Artificial Intelligence research

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Day 26 irobotsthe history of the subject
through the lens of Artificial Intelligence
research

• HUM 201
• WI 2005

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Distributed subjects and stories

• States
• Warmachines
• Diasporas
• Travel stories with subjects-
• Home, journey, return home
• Travel stories with distributed subjects
• Emergence into a new qualitative position
  (journey-return only one way to think about this)

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Distributed subjects

• Social organisms
• Plants
• Rodney Brooks robots

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Old School AI-Active Agent

• Early artificial intelligence research dominated
  by an overly cognitive mode of thinking.

• John McCarthy taught at MIT in the 1950s
• Help set up Stanford AI lab (1962)
• Developed the programming language LISP
• Early notion of intelligence as problem solving
  in games (like chess)

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Mike the Headless Chicken

• 1945-46
• http//www.miketheheadlesschicken.org/

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Rodney Brooks-The loss of the agent

• Head of MIT Computer Science and Artificial
  Intelligence Lab
• Co-founder of irobot corp.
• Ph.D. from Stanford.
• The importance of feeling, moving, and
  communicating

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Cynthia Brazeal-The emergence of the affective
agent

• How do you build things back up?
• The rise of affective computing
• Cynthia Brazeal
• Director of Robotic Life group at MIT
• What does it mean for a robot to have emotional
  intelligence or social awareness

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Kismet
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Not purely comforting

• irobot corp.
• http//www.irobot.com/
• Re-inscribes old relationships between the
  Department of Defense and AI
• Military Industrial Complex
• Military Entertainment Complex
• Military Domestic Complex?