This website is now archived. To find out what BERG did next, go to www.bergcloud.com.

Botworld

Previous slide Slide 41 of 67 Next slide

Okay, that’s the “big maths” way of being intelligent. There’s another way, which is you cheat. You think there’s some kind of magical wizard of artificial intelligence happening… but just like in the Wizard of Oz, there’s a man behind the curtain.

This picture, by the way, is the Turk, a chess playing robot from the late 1700s. That figure at the back is a robot artificial intelligence that can beat almost anyone at chess.

Except… it’s not actually an artificial intelligence.

[Image source: Wikipedia on the Mechanical Turk]

Previous slide Slide 41 of 67 Next slide

March 28, 2012

Botworld is a talk on domestic artificial intelligence, from February 2011.