"Toward a Truly Clever Artificial Intelligence"
University of Reading (02/03/05)
"Dr. James Anderson of the University of Reading's Computer Science Department reports the development of an approach to writing computer programs that could one day be applied to the design and construction of robots whose minds function like those of humans. His "perspective simplex" (Perspex) method involves writing programs as a geometrical configuration instead of a list of instructions, which allows the program to operate in the manner of a neural network so that it continues functioning and developing even when it sustains damage. Anderson explains that a Perspex program serves as a connection between the geometrical structure of the physical world and computational structure, thus offering one answer to the long-term puzzle of how minds relate to physical bodies. In essence, it establishes a model that a robot can employ to define its own body and mind. Anderson says damaged Perspexes exhibit human-like periodic recovery and relapse, leading him to conclude that "a computer program that continues developing despite damaged, erroneous, and lost data means that, in the future, we could have computers that are able to develop their own minds despite, or because of, the rigors of living in the world."
He explains that a Perspex facilitates the acquisition of global reasoning with a single initial instruction, enabling a program to follow a model similar to human strategic thinking in which a problem is considered in its entirety before numerous details are examined."
http://www.extra.rdg.ac.uk/news/details.asp?ID=471
I believe the growth of AI will be an awesome feat this century, and will end up to be the next big invention to change everything. Alan Turing's dream is inching it way toward truth every year.
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