Term Papers on Artificial Intelligence

Term Paper Title	Artificial Intelligence
# of Words	950
# of Pages (250 words per page double spaced)	3.8

Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence once something that people thought could only come out of science fiction novels and movies.  But today that could all change because of a robot called Cog.  Cog is an artificial intelligence that it’s creators have given a body.  He is the future of AI and a new beginning for the field.
     His creator , Rogney Brooks, a professor of electrical engineering and computer science, thought of creating cog, from inspiration from an artificial intelligence that was depicted in the movie, "2001:A Space Odyssey."  In the movie, Hal, the AI, controlled a large space craft.  Instead of creating a brain in a box like in the movie, Rodney is putting the mind of a human into the body of a robot. Cog isn’t yet a true humanoid robot.  Right now he is little more that a head, neck , shoulders, chest and waist.  He is perched on a gray steel pedestal bolted to the floor of the Artificial intelligence lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.  Still no other machine has come closer to the humanoid robots of science fiction.  Cog foreshadows the day in which robots will interact normally with us.  Cog’s creators are trying to do just that.
     Cog is a very far cry from what HAL was thought, because he has some anatomy.  HAL was just basically a brain in a box.  What they are trying to accomplish with cog, is to equip a brain with a body, that has sensors so that it can learn about its environment on its own, much like a infant does.
Creating a humanoid was a big leap for Brooks.  His last venture in to the AI world made a big impression on the artificial-Intelligence community.  He created small robots the scurried around like insects.  It turns out though, that these small creatures have much in common with Cog.  They both do no use the usual AI approach that most other Mobil robots use.  These other robots, would have to carry a complete map of the world that the machine will encounter.  That would work fine in the lab, Brooks reasoned, but what about the real world with it’s vast space and many unfamiliar obstacles.  To over overcome this problem, Brooks programmed this little robots with so-called parallel behaviors.  He didn’t need the all-encompassing maps others used, just simple leg routines, such as up-down and forward-back motions the operate in parallel.  On the robot’s legs sensors warded of obstacles and triggered these behaviors like reflexes.  These machines ran riot in the lab where gradua!
te students built new obstacles courses for them every day.  The insect like robots managed to conquer all.  Cog represents the basic same principal, but a few steps beyo...

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