Sunday, February 10, 2013

Brainiac: The Artificial Intelligent Robotic Brain

Hi Readers,

Our brain is a very powerful organ in our body. Its quite equivalent to a hard drive on PC though it is a volatile and non volatile storage at the same time. How can I say so that its volatile and non-volatile both? Well its a good question so let me tell you what it actually means. There are incidents or things that we often forget until we have this so called “Photographic memory”. Thus forming a volatile memory. Also, it happens that somethings we never forget until we have “loss of memory”. Thus forming a non-volatile memory at the same time. Let me give you an example as well, “Tell me your name..... you remember it at any time you are asked for it” but if I ask you what is the meaning of “Chronaphilus”, I am sure you would need a dictionary to tell me its meaning. Before you search for the word in dictionary, let me tell you there is no meaning for it as I made it up.

Since humans have already designed robots good enough to move, then there lies a question that can we create a artificial intelligent human robot who has feeling like us, thinks and understands like us. I am sure we can do it. So to make them feel like us, the robot needs to understand pain, happiness, anger, other emotions as well but the part where they can think and make decision comes is quite tough, we can write codes in them to let them know what to do in what circumstance but that is going to take forever as there are lot of decision to make instead we can allow them to learn it by themselves. To make a computer think and decide by learning, what we need to do is to teach it. Teaching in the sense start from A for Apple and continue until they know it all. Well its just to make it familiar to words and things. 

Now, still the question stands that how would they know that decision they will make is right or wrong. The answer is quite simple, that how we do it our self.  Let me tell you this with an example, suppose we have an apple with us and you don't know what to do with it but you know its an apple, the choices you have it is to eat it or leave it but whether we need to eat it or leave it depends upon our previous experiences with an apple. May be you knew that you need to eat an apple but when you ate it for first time, you find it rotten and tasteless and you decided not to eat it next time. But may be next time you find a fresh and nicest apple and when you try it that time, you decide to eat it every time until its rotten. So now you know that what to do with an apple when its rotten and when its fresh. Similarly we all make our daily decision for each and every thing in life and that is comparing our experiences of past and present to make a current or future decision.

Not only self doing acts but also the things that we see or feel daily, makes our decision. For an example that, think that you don't know what will happen if you cut a tree, you never cut it yourself because you don't know its consequence but one day you see a person cutting a tree and now you know that the tree will fall on the ground. So we know that similarly a robot with a permanent storage system can understand and make decision by itself by its past experience. The only thing we need to do is to teach it from basics till end. There is a caution notice here that artificial intelligent robots are still a bad option if they turn out to be cylons or terminators perhaps and then decide to kick your ass and kill you.

Awaiting your comments. I hope you all like it.

Thanks
Nakul

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