Australian robots make up their own language
A pair of talking robots, initially not possessing any language to communicate with each other, she developed it during the interaction. The droids gradually agreed and determined that, for example, the word "jaya" means "in the center of the room."
A fun experiment conducted by Ruth Schulz (Ruth Schulz) and her colleagues from the University of Queensland. They explored the process of forming a language from scratch using the example of two cars. The project received the name "Lingodroids" (Lingodroids).
According to Discovery, the cars surveyed a small area using cameras, laser range finders and sonars. In the course of reconnaissance, robots came up with words to designate certain areas of the terrain.
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At first, these words did not exist at all. Each robot made them at random, combining syllables in random order.
When two vehicles met in one place, the first one, who had already opened this section, pronounced his name out loud, and the second one understood what they wanted to say to him. Further, in a similar way, the vocabulary of constantly communicating machines grew and was replenished with terms meaning directions and even distances.
This language was strengthened with the help of games. Let's say one robot uttered “kuzo”, and then both hurried to where they thought was “kuzo”. If two cars met at one point or close to each other, this success strengthened the connection between the word and the location.
After several hundred games, the robots agreed on directions with an accuracy of 10 degrees and a distance within 0.38 meters.
Using the language and personal experience invented by them, each of them built a map of the terrain, including areas that they could not reach. And these cards turned out to be very similar to each other. Moreover, if some part of their tiny world turned out to be outside the door, she also received a name and later, when the door was opened, one robot could ask the second to go there and his partner correctly interpreted what they wanted from him.
In the future, scientists intend to push the “Lingodroids” to complicate the language so that they learn to explain one to another - how to get to a specified point or to characterize the availability of a place.
According to Australians, this experiment will serve as a platform for the study of cognitive processes associated with the representation of knowledge, planning, language development, linking characters to objects and imagination. And such studies will help improve the means of communication between robots and with people.
The results of the experiment (PDF document) were presented by the authors in mid-May in Shanghai at a conference on robotics.
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Upd. Transferred from the closed "Future is here" to "Artificial Intelligence"
A fun experiment conducted by Ruth Schulz (Ruth Schulz) and her colleagues from the University of Queensland. They explored the process of forming a language from scratch using the example of two cars. The project received the name "Lingodroids" (Lingodroids).
According to Discovery, the cars surveyed a small area using cameras, laser range finders and sonars. In the course of reconnaissance, robots came up with words to designate certain areas of the terrain.
')
At first, these words did not exist at all. Each robot made them at random, combining syllables in random order.
When two vehicles met in one place, the first one, who had already opened this section, pronounced his name out loud, and the second one understood what they wanted to say to him. Further, in a similar way, the vocabulary of constantly communicating machines grew and was replenished with terms meaning directions and even distances.
This language was strengthened with the help of games. Let's say one robot uttered “kuzo”, and then both hurried to where they thought was “kuzo”. If two cars met at one point or close to each other, this success strengthened the connection between the word and the location.
After several hundred games, the robots agreed on directions with an accuracy of 10 degrees and a distance within 0.38 meters.
Using the language and personal experience invented by them, each of them built a map of the terrain, including areas that they could not reach. And these cards turned out to be very similar to each other. Moreover, if some part of their tiny world turned out to be outside the door, she also received a name and later, when the door was opened, one robot could ask the second to go there and his partner correctly interpreted what they wanted from him.
In the future, scientists intend to push the “Lingodroids” to complicate the language so that they learn to explain one to another - how to get to a specified point or to characterize the availability of a place.
According to Australians, this experiment will serve as a platform for the study of cognitive processes associated with the representation of knowledge, planning, language development, linking characters to objects and imagination. And such studies will help improve the means of communication between robots and with people.
The results of the experiment (PDF document) were presented by the authors in mid-May in Shanghai at a conference on robotics.
Sources: One , Two
Upd. Transferred from the closed "Future is here" to "Artificial Intelligence"
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/119936/
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