Reinventing the robot. (Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Artificial Intelligence Laboratory) (Science and Technology)

The Economist (US) | October 27, 1990 | Copyright

INDUSTRIOUS though they may be, ants win few prizes for intellect. Yet a new generation of robot-builders is experimenting with machines that think more like insects than people. Such artificial bugs are proving surprisingly capable. Intriguingly, in some ways they seem to be cleverer than machines Programmed to mimic people.

PeoPle use symbols-words, or some. times mathematical expressions and logical formulae-to think about the world. Researchers have long assumed that artificial intelligences would have to do the same. For decades the core of ...

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