Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!ukc!strath-cs!nott-cs!ucl-cs!Gordon From: Gordon@ucl-cs.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.ai Subject: Re: Plan 5 for Inner Space - A Sense of Mind. Message-ID: <305@ucl-cs.UUCP> Date: 25 Jun 89 14:58:56 GMT Sender: @ucl-cs.UUCP Lines: 46 < From: Marshall Cline < Newsgroups: comp.ai < Subject: Re: Plan 5 for Inner Space - A Sense of Mind. < Message-ID: < Date: 20 Jun 89 18:26:50 GMT < References: <300@ucl-cs.UUCP> < Sender: news@sun.soe.clarkson.edu < Original-Reply-To: cline@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Marshall Cline) < Organization: Clarkson University, Postdam NY < Lines: 86 < In-reply-to: Gordon@ucl-cs.UUCP's message of 19 Jun 89 10:21:11 GMT < Resent-Date: Sat, 24 Jun 89 4:07:58 BST < Resent-From: news@Cs.Ucl.AC.UK < Resent-To: comp.ai@bboards < < [ Sorry. Couldn't resist. :-) ] < < In article <300@ucl-cs.UUCP> Gordon@ucl-cs.UUCP writes: < >The following project has been proposed. Design and implement an < >Intelligent System with the following characteristics. The system < >is to run in real time and be portable. Memory and processing units < >must be in the same enclosure, run on low power and not overheat. < >(a) Full colour binocular vision, with motion perception. < >(b) Speech processing and speech synthesis. < >(c) Natural language ability :- < > (1) Semantic ability < > (2) Translation. < > (3) Ability to summarise. < > (4) Humour (optional). < >(d) Learning ability. < >(e) Ability to control a large number of servo mechanisms, with strength < > and sensitivity. < >(f) Other tasks, as yet unspecified, but the system must be able < > to cope with extra requirements, as and when the need arises, < > using characteristic (d). < >Queries: Time to completion? Cost? < < My associate (translation: "wife") and I just succeeded with your < third such unit. The first unit has already mastered the Natural < Language Ability section, although (c.4) is still in the planning < stages. < [...] As usual, more interest in the implementation than the design. Gordon.