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Above is a link to a video that reveals
one of many ways a Nao robot operates. In this video, the Nao robot is able to
mimic a person's movement and pretend to be a fitness trainer. It's very thrilling
to see how technology have advanced so much over the years. We seen how the
robot is able to interact with humans to do certain kind of activities yet how
it also not so great in completing any tasks. For example, in the video "we
saw the robot doing exercises only by mimicking the user's movements. It also
showed the lag of the robot in doing the exercises" (Tempusmaster). The
interaction between the Nao robot and the user is surprising, in the sense that
we have not encountered this before. After seeing many videos of Nao robot, it
brings upon us an optimistic feeling. To know that one day we might be able to
do daily tasks with a robot seems like a new era. This video is found on YouTube
yet it seems trustworthy because of how the video shows the robot and user
side-by-side, thus we know it is not fake. Otherwise, we also seen many other advertisement
of the Nao robot that reveal its full capabilities.
According
to Bowdoin (2002), Artificial intelligence is "a machine that can think
about data and act upon them as a human" (Bowdoin, 2002, p. 153). This
means that for any machine to be considered artificially intelligent, it must
conduct any type of a activity in the way any human would go upon it. Referring
to this definition, we can conclude that the Nao robot is not artificially
intelligent. Even though the Nao robot can mimic movements of its user, it
cannot perform them as good as the human. For instance, if we were to look at
other videos of this robot, we can see that the robots are slow in performing
activities, which means it takes time for them to process data. Lerner (2008) stated
that,
Certain
tasks can be performed faster and more accurately by traditionally programmed computers than by human beings, particularly
numerical computation and the storage, retrieval,
and sorting of large quantities of information. However, the ability of computers to interact flexibly with the real
world— their intelligence—remains slight. (p. 326).
This explains how the Nao robot
is still not advanced enough to fully interact with the human species. Also, we
do not know whether or not these robot act upon emotions or not. That is
something that will always be missing from them, and will be the reason why
interaction between humans and robots may be difficult in the future.
Next,
we shall analyze how the video and a written technical description of this
robot differ. First, the written description provides a detailed physical
description of the robot. The video we seen straightly goes into revealing the
skills of the robot. Second, The written description describes how the software
operates in order for the robot to behave in this manner. The video skips that
part, yet shows us what the software is capable of doing. Therefore, the written description is more
helpful in the sense it provides a detailed description of everything in regard
of the robot.
References:
Intelligence, Artificial. (2002). In A.
B. Van Riper, Science in Popular Culture (pp. [153]-155).Westport, CT: Greenwood Press. Retrieved
from http://go.galegroup.com.rpa.laguardia. edu:2048/ps/i.do? id=GALE%7CCX2888500053&v=2.1&u=cuny_laguardia&it=r&p=G VRL.Science&sw=w
Artificial intelligence. (2008). In K.
L. Lerner & B. W. Lerner (Eds.), The Gale Encyclopedia of Science (4th ed., Vol. 1, pp. 326-330).
Detroit: Gale. Retrieved from http://go.galegroup.com.rpa.laguardia.edu:2048/ps/i.do?id=GALE%7CCX2830100190& v=2.1&u=cuny_laguardia&it=r&p=GVRL.Science&sw=w
Tempusmater (2012, April 8). NAO Robot Developer Days - Craig Schulman. Retrieved
April 28,2013, from http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=X7_ciK
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