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Intelligent Machine Brain Understands Natural Language

Posted January 28, 2011 10:06 AM

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Computer scientists have developed an intelligent control system for machines and robots that understands and interprets programming instructions in natural language. The system brain or 'sysbrain' could be used for guiding autonomous satellites and spacecraft but project leader Prof Sandor Veres, from Southampton University, said the system has 'enormous scope' for industry and consumers.

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01/28/2011 3:56 PM

Truly awesome! yes I can't program and am too lazy busy to learn, and I wish every machine could be made to respond to my pseudocode and do my bidding without years of struggle with C++ or whatever. Of course I want it. yesyesyes. bring it on.

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01/29/2011 10:56 PM

The one's that "do [your] bidding" are those that have hand wheels.

But you can get 'translators' that will encode what you modeled - mostly. Better so, if you know how to model a part in a way, the machine likely to make it, does things. And better still, if you can 'un-crap' "G-code" and/or "M-code".

Trust a machine that "hears and obeys"? - not with the sort of commentary that go on while 'testing a sequence in air' - like "yeah you just try to dive into the table you $%&*".

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01/30/2011 6:54 AM

ah, yes.... now I'm thinking of the voice-recognition telephone trees. Of course, my expletives made no difference in that case, since none of my 'commands' were recognized in the first place...

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01/30/2011 10:09 PM

Had a chat with one of those a while back - turned out it didn't recognize "zero" - you had to say "Oh" to it.

Rather like the telecom humans that invent a phonetic alphabet all their own.

Classic for me was "is that zee for xylophone?"

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"Open the pod-bay doors please, Hal."
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