A small post about robots... social robots
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At its core, RoboEarth is a World Wide Web for robots: a giant network and database repository where robots can share information and learn from each other about their behavior and their environment.
Bringing a new meaning to the phrase "experience is the best teacher", the goal of RoboEarth is to allow robotic systems to benefit from the experience of other robots, paving the way for rapid advances in machine cognition and behaviour, and ultimately, for more subtle and sophisticated human-machine interaction.
RoboEarth will include everything needed to close the loop from robot to RoboEarth to robot. The RoboEarth World-Wide-Web style database will be implemented on a Server with Internet and Intranet functionality. It stores information required for object recognition (e.g., images, object models), navigation (e.g., maps, world models), tasks (e.g., action recipes, manipulation strategies) and hosts intelligent services (e.g., image annotation, offline learning).
To close the loop, the RoboEarth Collaborators will also implement components for a ROS compatible, robot-unspecific, high-level operating system as well as components for robot-specific, low level controllers accessible via a Hardware Abstraction Layer.
Have you heard about this ? Is this the beginning of the end ? Is the "terminator - skynet " transforming from a story to a prophecy ?
Neah, just kidding, for one, I really don`t think so, even though this sound a bit threating, it's far from that, the main purpose of this entire program, to put it in simple terms, is the resolving the update problems for all the robots and that is about it. So, sorry for disappointing, no killer robots coming soon ..
As I`m a big fan of robotics, I found this both interesting and funny, hope you will also enjoy this :)
Well, this is a very good question indeed... why do so many people fear the future ? I mean okay, the terminator it`s a point of view but still, this is not the case. I highly doubt that some day, the computers/AI/ Artificial Intelligence will make a riot and kill everybody around here. And even if they would do that they would probably have a very good cause to do that. Why ? Well take a big look around us, humans destroy almost every place they go to...
Okay, enough with the sarcasm, the point actually is that, even if we like it or not, the artificial intelligence is evolving, from the old simple yet reliable percetrons to the breath taking neuronal networks today and constant self-changing algorithms, for exemple take this article about the IBM`s Watson super computer ...
Then, as opposed to finding the single correct answer to a question, the contestant needs to figure out every possible question that could have the answer, then decide which is most likely to be the one the quiz setters were thinking of. That requires a combination of reasoning, judgment, and considering several ideas near-simultaneously, a set of skills to which humans are better suited.
That’s the theory at least, but IBM believes its machine Watson (as in Thomas, the IBM founder) could compete with the best. As a result, the computer is taking on Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter, two of the all time greats at playing the show.
The rules of the challenge say that Watson can only work from data stored on the machine: it’s not allowed to network with other computers or access the Internet. That said, Watson does take up the equivalent space of 10 refrigerators: for practical reasons it’s represented at the podium by a flat-screen monitor. It’s been set up to analyze possible answers and rank their likelihood, only buzzing in if it has an answer with a set level of certainty.
In preparation for the contest, Watson has played more than 50 games against former champions, but this week’s test is the first time a result has been made public. The final score saw Jennings on $3,400, Rutter on $1,200 and Watson taking glory with $4,400.
Although there’s a million dollar prize at stake in the challenge, IBM will donate any winning to charity. It says the aim of developing Watson isn’t TV glory, but rather to have a practical way of coming up with a technology that reverses the usual question-answer format. For example, it could lead to computer systems that do a better job of diagnosing a medical condition from a list of symptoms, or performing a similar role in tech support. It’s also possible it could lead to search engines that are more able to understand natural language questions.
Well, makes you wonder... and yes it gives you a chill down the spine, but this is the future, and you have to get used to this type of things, because they are going to very frequent in the years that will come. But before you start to imagine droids and robots lurking around the city and killing every single human like in the "terminator" or like in this comic, this type of technology has a lot to offer...
25 Reasons Not to Trust Spell-Check When Job Hunting
You've probably pored (or is it poured?) over your resume and cover letter hundreds of times, fine-tuning them, updating them, making sure they're so perfect that even the most trained eye could find nary a mistake.
Check out our list and feel free to add your own:
1. Pubic vs. public: This is my favorite one.
2. Manger vs. manager: Let's hope you don't confuse your boss for where the baby Jesus used to chill out.
3. Diffuse vs. defuse: Diffuse means to spread, as in diffuses the light. Defuse means to make less harmful, as in "defuse a crisis," or to defuse a bomb, which is important if you're applying for a bomb squad job.
4. Stationery vs. stationary: You exercise on a stationary bike. You print out your resume and cover letter on high-quality stationery.
5. Desperate vs. disparate: "My desperate ideas have always been embraced by my manger." Oy, spell-check won't catch those. See ya.
6. Loose vs. lose: Don't be a grammar "looser."
7. Allot vs. a lot: And please never write "alot," though your spell-check may be able to find that one.
8. Accept vs. expect vs. except: All three of them sound alike, and the last two look a lot alike, so be careful.
9. Fro vs. for: A lot of people just fly by these small words.
10. Preventive vs. preventative: Look at this example from TalkTalk: Preventive medicine regards vitamin C as an effective preventative against colds.
11. Site vs. sight vs. cite: Did you forget to cite your sources and then lose sight of your goals at your next job site?
12. I could of vs. I could have: Eek, this is not Twitter, folks -- have always wins.
13. Infamous vs. famous: Did you just have lunch with your infamous client? Meaning the worst kind of client ever? Infamous means not good. You don't want to say in your cover letter that the "infamous Mother Teresa" was one of your idols.
14. Flesh out vs. flush out: You can flesh out a great plan, while you flush out the insects from your baby's formula.
15. Access vs. assess: Assess your resume by accessing this post.
16. Definitely vs. defiantly: So many people still try to spell "definitely" with an "a" and get "defiantly" instead. Head. Meet. Wall.
17. Then vs. than: Perfect your resume, then apply for the job. It's better than sending one full of mistakes.
18. Lead vs. led: Colonel Mustard may be in the dining room with a lead pipe, but hopefully you led your team in sales last year.
19. Insure vs. ensure: You insure your car. A mistake-free resume ensures a shot at an interview.
20. Form vs. from: Again, always check even the most common and smallest of words!
21. Lay vs. lie: You lay down your paper. Hopefully you won't be lying down with your potential boss in your bed to get this job. Try to remember that "lay" needs a direct object.
This one needs a little bit more explanation though. The past tense of "lie" is "lay." I know, who exactly invented the English language?? You lay down on your bed yesterday. As for the past tense of "lay"? You laid those papers on your coworker's desk a week ago. Make sense?
22. Less vs. fewer: Yes, there is a difference. Check out Grammar Girl's take. All those signs in the grocery store? They should say "10 Items or Fewer."
23. Principle vs. principal: "My strong principals make me a great candidate." Nice to know you're so well acquainted with school leaders on steroids.
24. Farther vs. further: Use "farther" only for physical distance, "further" for everything else. And please don't type in "father" by accident. Trust me, you'll go so much further in life.
25. Alter vs. altar: You altered the course of your company's future. Then you went home and sacrificed a pig on your altar for dinner. You badass woman, you.
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