by GWDarcie | Jan 30, 2015 | Uncategorized
Hello and Welcome. This blog is about robot technology, present and near future. If you love robots, please join the conversation. Robots have been a mainstay of science fiction since its early days, and now they are here. Today’s robots, however, are nothing...
by GWDarcie | Feb 7, 2015 | Uncategorized
A clinical psychologist, I have been studying people academically, professionally and personally for over 40 years. What I have learned over all that time is how little I know. You, a human being, are simply the most complex thing in the known universe. Your brain...
by GWDarcie | Feb 11, 2015 | Uncategorized
Two kinds of conscious machines have been popular in science fiction; conscious A.I, and conscious robots. Conscious A.I., essentially consciousness-in-a-box, is almost always portrayed as dangerous, as indeed it would be, if such a thing were possible. Conscious...
by GWDarcie | Feb 15, 2015 | Uncategorized
The idea of intelligent machines has been around at least since the time of Turing’s work in the 1940s. Artificial intelligence (A.I.) has become a mature field, and is now poised on the brink of widespread application across all existing technologies. Despite this,...
by GWDarcie | Feb 22, 2015 | Uncategorized
The Mechanism Me, as should be obvious from the title, pays homage to Asimov’s classic I Robot series. It is my respectful attempt to update the venerable “positronic brain” with a robotic system that reflects current trends in science and technology. Asimov’s...
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