artificial pet named AIBO. It’s a robot that resembles a dog. AIBO is able to learn and its intelligence grows and develops just as a real dogs does. When you first get AIBO it is in its “infant stage”. Sony’s web site describes this stage:AIBO can learn through patient reinforcement and praise from you. For instance, if you scold AIBO while it is looking at a ball, it will soon figure out that it is not a good idea to do so. Once AIBO starts to dislike balls, AIBO may show you signs that it is in a bad mood whenever there is a ball around. At times, AIBO may even get mad and bark. On the other hand, if you praise AIBO while it is looking at a ball, AIBO will learn that balls are fun to be around and will probably increasingly like playing with them. The things that AIBO learns through your guidance become part of its personality, making your AIBO unique from every other.AIBO goes through different stages of development where it learns to walk, play fetch, sit, and so on. The robot is equipped with a optic camera so it can see its way around. Even though this robot can only do simple tasks it represents the future of Artificial Intelligence. Computers are a long way from thinking like humans, but that doesn’t mean that they don’t think. A dog can’t think like a human, neither can a cat, but this doesn’t mean that they are not thinking. One argument against the idea that computers can think is the Turing test. Alan Turing developed a test back in the 1950’s to test for intelligence. The test consists of a person in one room and a computer in another. Both interact with a third person. The third person is supposed to ask both the computer and the person questions and from the answers he is supposed to be able to tell who is the human and who is the computer. Today, a computer doesn’t exist that could pass the Turing test. This does not mean that computers can̵...
