{"id":1763,"date":"2014-04-02T06:35:10","date_gmt":"2014-04-02T10:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/?p=1763"},"modified":"2014-04-09T06:40:49","modified_gmt":"2014-04-09T10:40:49","slug":"robot-language","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/?p=1763","title":{"rendered":"Robot Language"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vweisfeld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/424347088_640_converted.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" alt=\"robots, communication, Luc Steels\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vweisfeld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/424347088_640_converted.jpg?resize=350%2C199\" width=\"350\" height=\"199\" \/><\/a>A meditation by Visual Thesaurus\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.visualthesaurus.com\/cm\/ll\/understanding-your-robots-grammar\/\">Orin Hargraves<\/a> on how robots might develop language. He includes an enlightening TED talk with <a href=\"http:\/\/ai.vub.ac.be\/members\/steels\">Luc Steels<\/a> (Vrje Universiteit Brussels, Artificial Intelligence Lab) on experiments with robots\u2019 learning to speak on their own through networks and the complex connections between ideas, rather than through a programmed language provided by humans. Descriptions of some of Steels\u2019s work are embodied in this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/356581802\">review<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>When researchers allow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=YmcOCDVsBlo\">two robots<\/a>, who see the world from their own unique vantage points, to invent a way to communicate, they must come up with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=7u9OvtEkd1A\">their own concepts and vocabulary<\/a> (video). (This sounds depressingly like humans, the \u201cunique vantage point\u201d part and malleable vocabulary.) How will they self-organize language? Will it develop in ways we can understand, that relate to the way humans experience the world? 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He includes an enlightening TED talk with Luc Steels (Vrje Universiteit Brussels, Artificial Intelligence Lab) on experiments with robots\u2019 learning to speak on their own through networks &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/?p=1763\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Robot Language","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5,185,186,104],"tags":[166,188],"class_list":["post-1763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-imagination","category-language","category-technology","category-the-morgue","tag-creativity","tag-visual-thesaurus"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2NkiT-sr","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1763"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1764,"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1763\/revisions\/1764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}