Wednesday, August 13, 2008

Interpretation of the Harry Potter series

There’s more, as we have just reached part V of the modern interpretation of the Harry Potter series. The 1980s witnessed the advent of cheap microprocessors that helped the making of personal computers. In the next decade, the arrival of bandwidth gave birth to www (World Wide Web). Cheap sensors and their multiplier effects will define the transformation in the next decade or two. And the first to be impacted will be robots, and the increased interactions between Man and Machine.

At the moment, our knowledge about robots is restricted to updated versions of Asimo, which has been designed and redesigned by several Japanese firms from time to time. But, by 2020, robots may become an integral part of our lives. Recently, Stanford University’s robot, Shakey, became the first to combine the diversified aspects of movement, problem-solving and perception. Post-Shakey, Stanford is working on STAIR (STanford Artificial Intelligence Robot), which is expected to attain broad intelligence.

If all goes according to plan, STAIR (or just call it Ramu, Shyam, or Chotu) will act as your guide, clean up the living room, assemble book shelves, and use your dishwasher, iron, and washing machine. “Cheap sensors are shaping this decade, and the poster child is going to be a robot. The next big consumer revolution will be consumer robots. We are poised at the edge of a robotics revolution,” says futurist Paul Saffo.

While robots will become intelligent, the telling difference in the future will be voice recognition. They will know who their masters are, they will know whose orders to prioritise. At present, the use of voice recognition (speech translation technology) is limited to few applications, but the real potential is untapped. According to Ray Kurzweil, a technology futurist, “Speech recognition will give us more ways to talk to machines. We will see robust speech recognition for making phone calls, getting travel information, accessing the Web when you can’t even look at a screen.”

One can now imagine an ‘iRobot’ world, where robots are everywhere and anywhere. They follow three essential laws: they don’t harm human beings, listen to human orders as long as they are consistent with Law 1, and protect their existence as long as it does not conflict with Law 1 and 2. Unfortunately, we will still have a Del Spooner (Will Smith) passionately searching for Sonny (NS-5 robot), who broke all the three laws.

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