The conversation thing

NLP made me perceive the world with all senses opened and better prepared for the large amount of info I have to process. And to process wisely, I might add.

The next three days I’ll be again on a training session for NLP, I can’t wait to work on the new techniques. The very first sign that is obvious for me after taking those NLP trainings is the awareness I have for the sensorial perceptions in other people intends and forms of expression.

For instance, this research here is purely kinestesic. In fact, touching is one very important aspect of communication, yet very rarely used because of the all so many connotations …

So we may restrict ourselves to pets… or when we are allergic to them, or want to experiment more, to intelligent robots… the research in itself is very powerfull and I expect very strong outcomes… but the idea to have an artifficial pet just to touch it … it’s weird, right?

I have seen the Sony artifficial dog, and I immediately fell in love with it… for me, it was no difference from a real dog to that little cute guy that would light some lights when experiencing joy

Feelings inside are activated by simple touch and series of events. The outside object may be just a toy or a living soul, artifficial or not… it may not count as much to the inner reaction we experience.

As Wired blog says here, the robots used in military actions sometimes do terrible mistakes and seem to have a life of their own.

Such a nice robot, reminds me of when I was working
on a project of artificial intelligence… pattern recognition (first project in university) and I thought that determining an object by its contour was such a simple thing …. yeeaaah right! discovered only a few hours later that humans are quite marvelous beings … and the most simple things we do, take such vast computation in computer realm ..

I remember before actually starting to work on this assignment (its purpose was to learn the neural network the alphabet and then test the neural network what it has actually learned.. kinda like how we were taught the alphabet in the first grade, remember? ) Anyways, my imagination started to go places and I thought what is the big deal about recognizing letters … such simple shapes … we can always recognize cars for instance … and concepts come from bringing the learned shapes seen the most to conscience, or at least that was what I was thinking….

Well, I was sooo good in theory (I might have been a very good psychologist) but when finding ways to implement it …. the tough part came. And that’s when I realized that for an artificial being just to come to the concept of a car is not a simple matter of seeing many car shapes, you have to have the concept of velocity, of objects that can move, but are artificial, not nature based … and this simple thing such as what is natural and what is made by humans is sooooo hard to even consider not to mention to encode.

When I read the critics about this robot at first I joined the amusement “Even if this cyclist goes at the speed of a snail under sedatives, it is quite amazing to watch it ….”

Guys… just the fact that it can control its moves through a rough path, it’s mooore than enough… not to mention it is soooo cute! Way to go, MuRata!

Looking up the Internet for this (re)Actor2: The Second International Conference on Digital Live Art - Leeds, UK conference, I’ve found one very interesting woman. Kind of what I’d like to have done after the next 10 years.

An interesting event happening in Danmark, at Odense - Robots at play from 23 to 25 August.

The lawn mower that mowes the lawn completely by itself. The therapeutic robotic teddy bear “Huggable”. The toy robot that provokes children to move around. Or the robot that very precisely selects the blood veins best suited for blood testing.

Many of the robotic systems that we think belong to the future have already been realized and can be seen during the Robot Festival in Odense where many fascinating robots will be on display. Both the entertaining ones and the hard working ones. And from many countries. The overall aim of the festival is to spread knowledge about robotics and we look forward to seeing you at this inspiring and fascinating festival where you can enjoy events like robot construction, film presentations, play, learning, a stage show, a conference and a debate on ethics.

Come and join in – and give way to your fascination with robots.

If anyone should attend please leave a comment.
(Autonomous Light Air Vessels see more here )