Will seek to explore what a culture of learning involves, and newly re robotics and Lego robotics soon and re esp. "The Era of Robot Culture" article and idea here https://www.bbvaopenmind.com/en/la-era-de-la-cultura-robot/ ...
I'll construe culture here as discourse or customs, and learning as gaining knowledge socially and by communication (with language or gesture mostly for humans, for ex.).
I'll further construe a robot as a physical "machine capable of carrying out a complex series of actions automatically, especially one programmable by a computer" (Apple dictionary 2007) ... and extend this to avatar robots, so digital or virtual machines (e.g. think World of Warcraft, Pokemon, OpenSim and SL avatars).
Where this robot discourse and emerging customs include:
language,
coding,
memes (cultural replicating units - e.g. read Dawkins 1976),
nascent concept and research into the idea of a 'biological brain,'
symbols,
stories / narratives,
the educational systems and the students learning to code the machine learning of these robots teaching robots,
teaching science?,
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And re
ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy,
which I'll define here again in this blog as "doing anthropology as interpretive understandings and representations of what people do, as a wiki - group co-authoring system and platform - with collaborative virtual world building, where both physical and avatar robots, too could learn to do this, and be taught by other robots.
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Teaching Robots to Teach Robots video http://youtu.be/QQplTBx6rV0
I liked a @YouTube video https://t.co/uFEEBKaC3I Teaching Robots to Teach Robots— WorldUnivandSch (@WorldUnivAndSch) September 20, 2018
https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1042913167322624001
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Learning Geometric Constraints from Demonstrations for Multi-Step Manipulation in Shared Autonomy
Claudia Perez-D'Arpino
Julie Shah
MIT CSAIL
Teaching Robots to Teach Robots
http://youtu.be/QQplTBx6rV0
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again, from this MIT Tech Review article:
If robots that can learn from each other, is this the beginning of robot culture? (Sponsored content via @bbvaOpenMind ) https://trib.al/0l3y3Co
https://twitter.com/techreview/status/1041440857289678848
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in this article and video
'social learning' is central
... and culture has a foundation where new information is gained or acquired socially and exchanged ...
“Without that ability to learn by observing others and interacting with them, we would not have culture, as evolutionary biologists Kevin Laland and Will Hoppitt argue: “Culture is based on information that is socially learned and transmitted.” “
“And once the robot knows how to physically interact with objects, it can begin to learn more complex tasks. For this, a human programmer uses the C-LEARN software to move the extremities of a virtual representation of the robot and thus demonstrate to its real equivalent how to execute each task. Unlike previous methods for teaching machines, C-LEARN allows the programmer to only have to demonstrate each action once.”
the roboticists and author's suggest:
" “This approach is actually very similar to how humans learn in terms of seeing how something’s done and connecting it to what we already know about the world,” says Pérez-D’Arpino. “We can’t magically learn from a single demonstration, so we take new information and match it to previous knowledge about our environment.” The researcher adds that by combining the “intuition of learning” with the precision of algorithms for planning movement, this new field of research can help robots to perform new types of tasks that they couldn’t learn before, such as multi-step assembly."
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But operant conditioning for non-human species, or schedules of reinforcement re one important behaviorism (BF Skinner) form of learning isn't what's happening here.
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... perhaps re the article's suggestion of learning being a process of "matching," more than memes, or imitation, is happening here in the gaining of knowledge, and indeed re article's "intuition of learning" something that psychologists might have studied as "Aha" moments (from the psychology academic literature from as early as the 1980s) in humans might be being codified robotically and with the C-Learn demonstration-learning software in new ways.
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Prof Hennessy, (and Larry who is chair of the Board at World Univ and Sch)
It was really great to see you recently at Stanford Law. (I always somehow feel honored and re your excellent guidance of Stanford for 16 years, and now as the Chair of Alphabet/Google). Re Directors and talking with the panel and legal questions, it was interesting to learn of the varieties of LINGUISTIC INDEPENDENCE there are too re a hypothetical Delaware Supreme Court ruling on this.
I heard a great Stanford talk yesterday by Professor and Sculptor/Artist Renmin Zhu - https://events.stanford.edu/events/798/79848/ - and am wondering whether and in what ways it might be possible to explore creating professorial and "ecological restoration" robots (where his "Art Saves Ecology" talk was about "ecological restoration" - and he's made amazing life-size sculptures over some 40 years) out of something like Google Poly and from designing these also in a realistic virtual earth (think Google Street View with time slider, Maps, Earth, Sketchup, Waymo re converting cars into robots, etc.) - and also designing these with Lego in Brick Street View (which is a virtual world coded by Swede Einar Öberg combining Lego Bricks with Google Street View - https://experiments.withgoogle.com/brick-street-view) for actual-virtual, physical-digital correspondence, - and as products for the Japanese and Chinese markets to begin. This would perhaps also dovetail with an US and Google Robot strategy re developing robots in all countries. (Would like to avoid Terracotta Warrior Robots from any of ~200 countries, as I see it).
World University and School is also seeking to focus home robotics in courses for credit in all ~200 countries' official languages as part of engineering majors, building from CC-4 MIT OCW such as - https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/experimental-study-group/es-293-lego-robotics-spring-2007/.
Looking forward to hearing you this evening at the Computer History Museum. Thank you.
Best regards,
Scott MacLeod
https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Robotics
https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Virtual_Worlds
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How will and has the market for robots that learn with AI developed thus far, and re exporting to other countries - in all ~200 nation states?
In what ways could the WUaS, the US and Google create professorial and "ecological restoration" robots that learn as a category, but not warrior robots, and also inform international law about guidelines for export, re faculty in WUaS's planned online Law Schools - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/World_University_Law_School - in all ~200 countries' official languages?
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And to what degree could hypothetical professorial, art and "ecological restoration" robots, in conjunction with Prof. Zhu Renmin, be produced in China and the US, such that they learn re this MIT video (https://youtu.be/QQplTBx6rV0 embedded in the "The Era of Robot Culture" article), kind of by imitation - the "meme" idea here - (re a culture of robot learning, coded for by peoples and identities), in a way that wouldn't include becoming weapons or warriors, limited by law, and other kinds of coding?
Would this be akin to US and international regulations limiting sales of arms across international borders? EG Country X can't sell these fighter plane vehicles, or their designs, but this can sell these transportation vehicles and their designs, as a proxy and history for selling robots that learn with machine learning across international borders?
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Nothing says #backtoschool like introducing your students to their class pet. Can’t have a real pet in the classroom? Why not design engineer & code your own?! https://bit.ly/2xeQaA6 #LimitlesswithLEGO
Nothing says #backtoschool like introducing your students to their class pet. Can’t have a real pet in the classroom? Why not design engineer & code your own?! https://t.co/syNkd5LwR9 #LimitlesswithLEGO pic.twitter.com/greIJdYw1k— LEGO Education (@LEGO_Education) September 20, 2018
https://twitter.com/LEGO_Education/status/1042872452143968256
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It would seem to be possible to code a Lego robot to teach another robot at this point to do beginning surgery per these goals from
One Stanford surgery resident who writes:
“I take people away from their family, put them asleep in a cold room, and cut them open.”
https://twitter.com/brittnhasty/status/1042928753247117312
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A skillful Lego roboticist at this stage could probably A) code a Lego robot to push a gurney with a Lego patient away from their Lego family members, and B) cut the Lego patient open.
And in doing this, this same skillful Lego roboticist could probably code one Lego robot to teach another Lego robot to do the same surgical procedures.
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How to plan, and code for, in the era of robot culture, that no repurposing of these hypothetical surgeon robots into weapons could occur, for example, and by hacking or innovating?
I'd think this might have parallels with the licensing and laws pertaining to, for example, Chinese and American human surgeons, working in either country ... such that there are both norms, penalties and histories - informing discourse and customs - where they don't become weapons, for example.
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Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt predicts the internet will split in two by 2028 — and one part will be led by China
https://twitter.com/GerdMoeBehrens/status/1042922755388260352
One Stanford surgery resident who writes:
“I take people away from their family, put them asleep in a cold room, and cut them open.”
https://twitter.com/brittnhasty/status/1042928753247117312
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A skillful Lego roboticist at this stage could probably A) code a Lego robot to push a gurney with a Lego patient away from their Lego family members, and B) cut the Lego patient open.
And in doing this, this same skillful Lego roboticist could probably code one Lego robot to teach another Lego robot to do the same surgical procedures.
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How to plan, and code for, in the era of robot culture, that no repurposing of these hypothetical surgeon robots into weapons could occur, for example, and by hacking or innovating?
I'd think this might have parallels with the licensing and laws pertaining to, for example, Chinese and American human surgeons, working in either country ... such that there are both norms, penalties and histories - informing discourse and customs - where they don't become weapons, for example.
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Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt predicts the internet will split in two by 2028 — and one part will be led by China
Former Google CEO predicts the internet will split in two by 2028 — and one part will be led by China https://t.co/zZMHCEyrbC— Gerd Moe-Behrens (@GerdMoeBehrens) September 20, 2018
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Former Google CEO predicts the internet will split in two by 2028 — and one part will be led by China
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/09/20/eric-schmidt-ex-google-ceo-predicts-internet-split-china.html
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So if part of this discourse or these customs involve a distributed open network neutral internet - as a single network, and involving unicode too - what happens if Eric Schmidt's prediction takes form - and especially re teaching and learning about the developing knowledge of machine learning and artificial intelligence?
Libraries would be key here in many languages, and accessible online.
And student international travel to great universities in other countries would be key here too.
Libraries would be key here in many languages, and accessible online.
And student international travel to great universities in other countries would be key here too.
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Chinese language titles at the New York Public library ... World Univ & Sch is seeking to create major university online libraries in Chinese language (s) e.g. in the https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/China_Law_School_at_WUaS ... in Mandarin ... https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Mandarin_language_(Chinese) at China World University and School https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/China ... https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Library_Resources ...
https://plus.google.com/u/3/+InfoWorldUniversityinEnglish/posts/gKXXsxwQtE4
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It's also possible robots may eventually teach robots to create a PHYSICAL (so digitized paper, coins, bank cards, etc.) single Cryptocurrency with blockchain ledger - backed by ~200 central banks, post-dollar as international currency and post-EURO as regional currency for 19 out of 28 nation states - and that the doing of this would inform the "era of robot culture" - and machine learning (which will be central to robot culture) - in very far-reaching ways.
This would be a kind of Olympics' model of ~200 nation states wanting to play together informing "the era of robot culture" and learning.
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and especially re taxation in all 200 countries in an era of robotic learning ...
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See, too, Neha Narula’s recent Tweets about cryptocurrency and blockchain -
I'm humbled and honored to be nominated by inspiration, mentor, and friend @Joi for @WIRED's 25th anniversary edition. Huge thanks to @nxthompson, @klintron and @sarahfallon! tl;dr: time to BUIDL https://t.co/oP7YZAEnRP— Neha Narula (@neha) September 18, 2018
https://twitter.com/neha/status/1042191261736689665
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"Somehow, the computer scientists have gotten their hands on money and the world might never be the same." I did an intro podcast with the very fun @seanmcarroll:
"Somehow, the computer scientists have gotten their hands on money and the world might never be the same." I did an intro podcast with the very fun @seanmcarroll: https://t.co/IdaHq2cHWO— Neha Narula (@neha) September 11, 2018
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Paul Romer just went on a 10 minute rant about Unicode ❤️ #TPIAspen pic.twitter.com/CzAx1sxpXA— Neha Narula (@neha) August 20, 2018
https://twitter.com/neha/status/1031557794514653184
Neha Narula is the MIT Director of the Digital Currency Initiative.
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Yakushima old growth: The Era of Robot Culture, Harvard & MIT: Lab in Lego, Harvard - organ on a chip, Reed College Humanities and small classes, Will seek to explore what a culture of learning involves, and newly re robotics and Lego robotics soon and re esp. "The Era of Robot Culture" article and idea above .* * * See, too: Capybara: "Lab on a Lego," 3 home STEM kits eventually for undergraduate CC-4 best STEM OCW degrees worlduniversityandschool.org? "Microfluidics from LEGO bricks: MIT engineers ..." " ... and ... Mountain apollo butterfly: Robotics and Scratch programming language, Most promising robots for home creative robotics, "MIT system lets humans control robots with brainwaves and hand gestures"
- http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2018/09/yakushima-old-growth-era-of-robot.html -
Designing professorial & "ecological restoration" robots with Lego in Brick Street View (a virtual world coded by Swede Einar Öberg combining Lego Bricks with Google StreetView https://experiments.withgoogle.com/brick-street-view for #ActualVirtual & #PhysicalDigital correspondence https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2018/09/heteractis-magnifica-culture-of.html ~
Designing professorial & "ecological restoration" robots with Lego in Brick Street View (a virtual world coded by Swede Einar Öberg combining Lego Bricks with Google StreetView https://t.co/PQtEmRkgc6 for #ActualVirtual & #PhysicalDigital correspondence https://t.co/nmZWz3fcyM ~— WorldUnivandSch (@WorldUnivAndSch) September 20, 2018
- https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1042906165548441602
- https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1042907776664526848
- https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1042906982976434176
- https://twitter.com/WUaSPress/status/1042907157891473408
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So would it be possible to design and produce "Professors of Surgery," "Artist Professors of Zen Buddhism," "Professors of Art" and "Ecological Restoration" ROBOTS, and develop them in China and the USA for Chinese, Japanese and American markets, and as a way even to teach and grow knowledge at World University and School, since these (Lego?) robots could be developing into Professors.
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So a culture of robots teaching/learning from other robots could involve developing from this MIT CSAIL robotic learning C-LEARN software in a realistic virtual earth (think Google StreetView+), and importantly with eventually developing realistic avatar bots of real people (e.g. with a film-to-3D app), and at the cellular and atomic levels too (and for tele-robotic surgery) to study comparatively learning in actual humans, learning in digital humans, learning among physical robots and learning among virtual robots - and with doing brain research about this as well, as this unfolds/demonstrations - for documentation and publishing even - with the TIME SLIDER aspect of Google StreetView where "Pegman," its avatar bot, will grow {~ http://tinyurl.com/p62rpcg ~}. Cool ... And developing the C-LEARN software in Google Street View and potentially with Lego robotics with Brick Street View for WUaS matriculated students would all be part of this. More research is needed.
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Sunday, September 23, 2018
Dear Chris,
I'm sorry to miss your talk at Reed College tomorrow -https://twitter.com/Reed_
Looks like I've been following you - https://twitter.com/
Looking forward to staying in touch as China_Law_School_at_WUaS - https://wiki.
Best regards, Scott
How do you know Rebecca MacKinnon on LInkedIn -
https://www.linkedin.com/in/
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Scott MacLeod
4:26 PM (1 minute ago)
to Scott, Scott, christopher.buckley
Chris,
Am curious with time to learn who among your journalist colleagues are following developments in Chinese machine learning and particularly robotics - re
https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2018/09/heteractis-magnifica-culture-of.html .
Seeking to avoid a kind of Terracotta Warrior Robotics' nightmare, as countries' start shipping their robots to all ~200 countries' and in these languages. Will they somehow successfully become regulated like fighter planes being sold to other countries, while preserving the benefits of hacking and code writing by all ~200 countries' languages.
Could a Google / Alphabet start a "ecological restoration" and "professor" robotics company in Hanjou and develop its robots and machine learning out of the Google ecosystem, and thus create products and come into conversation with all the Chinese robotic companies developing their own machine learning?
Professor Zhu Renmin, whom I heard talk at Stanford recently, which you'll read in this article, seems to have the 'stature' in China to become a partner with a Google / Alphabet or World Univ & Sch / WUaS Press robotics' company.
Are Reed Prof of economics' Kim Clausing, Board member Konrad Alt and the NYT's Bill Newman part of the group who are inviting you to Reed tomorrow? (They are all friends of mine).
If your talk becomes live-streamed, please let me know, and I'll watch it.
Thank you, and all the best, Scott
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