Artificial Intelligence: Rensselaer Polytechnic

Anyone who has ever seriously considered artificial intelligence as a career has asked, "Do I really believe I'll see something remotely close to a human adult in my lifetime?"

Last year, Cynthia Breazeal of MIT's Media Labs programmed a physical robot to correctly ascertain an individual's deduction skills during a "false belief test".

In the beginning of the test the robot and two humans place two different objects into two different suitcases. One human then leaves the room while the other human switches the location of the objects. The robot's success is in understanding that one human did not witness the switch and will not know where the actual objects are located.

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A team from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York, told New Scientist that they had successfully recreated Breazeal's robot in Second Life.

The Rensselaer Polytechnic robot, nicknamed Eddie, can pass the test thanks to a simple logical statement added to the reasoning engine: if someone sees something, they know it and if they don't see it, they don't. This type of reasoning usually develops in humans by the age of 5-years-old.

The bottom line: Don't start building your bunker just yet, the Terminator is a long way off.

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