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Old 14th February 2018, 01:29 PM   #34
Sherman Bay
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Originally Posted by MikeG View Post
They've just interviewed a robots/ AI expert on Channel 4 News here who revealed that these things are controlled by someone with a joystick. You aren't seeing robots working things out for themselves. The arm reaching for the door handle, or the leap up onto the roof of a garage was great engineering, but still fully controlled by a human.
I think that's quite likely. And if so, then the "intelligence" in figuring out how to get thru a closed door is not "artificial," and was not generated by the robot.

But that doesn't mean it is impossible to eventually achieve, and I have no doubt it will be.
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