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"I think we're still on that topic, still trying to figure out what computers are, how they change us, why we use them."
- Neal Stephenson
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| Teaching a Robot | ||
| Giving instruction to a robot whose brain is not preprogrammed or otherwise fitted for a particular task. |
I don't know of an earlier, clear example of teaching a robot.
| She said, "Raise your hand, Lenny. Hand-up. Hand-up." She raised her own hand as she said it, over and over. Lenny followed the movement with its eyes. Up, down, up, down. Then it made an abortive gesture with its own hand and chimed, "Eh-uh." "Very good, Lenny," said Susan Calvin, gravely. "Try it again. Hand-up." Very gently, she reached out her own hand, took the robot's, and raised it, lowered it. "Hand -up. Hand-up." |
| Technovelgy from Lenny,
by Isaac Asimov. Published by Infinity Science Fiction in 1958 Additional resources -
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Compare to the learning robot 'wheelies' from Callahan and the Wheelies (1960) by Stephen Barr.
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