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Kinect Fusion Creates a Model in the Mind of the Robot
Back in 1964, I took a course in Artificial Intelligence that was offered by Marvin Minsky. It was course
18.16J, the J meaning that it was offered jointly by 18 (math) and 6 (Electrical Engineering). I don't
remember what the course 6 number was.
Anyway, what he taught me was the way the human mind works. Our eyes confer information via the
retina to the visual cortex, or at least, that is what I remember at this point in time (2012). If this
information had to be kept up to date, he taught us, it would take a retina which was 9 centimeters in
diameter. At least that is what I remember at this point in time. I remember repeating this lesson to my
friend Dave at one occasion at my Lake Home. He looked me with a blank stare as if to say "how do you
know that?" and "if that is true, it is a very important piece of information.
I also tried to explain that things are happening so quickly that the artificial means of reproducing what
the mind does is not that far in the future. It is hard, when you are bombarded with information all day
long about how reality is all about Humans, People and Yourself, to realize that engineers are working
seriously on machines that can do what humans do. If you also doubt me, then watch the following
video:
http://youtu.be/quGhaggn3cQ
Check out the definition of:
L. NShadowed
Surface Normals
Masked Depth
Normals
Multitouch
Note the ability to take a finger and "paint" on the 3D reconstructions of objects in a room.
http://youtu.be/nYsqNnDA1l4
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Back in 1964, I took a course in Artificial Intelligence that was offered by Marvin Minsky. It was course
18.16J, the J meaning that it was offered jointly by 18 (math) and 6 (Electrical Engineering). I don't
remember what the course 6 number was.
Anyway, what he taught me was the way the human mind works. Our eyes confer information via the
retina to the visual cortex, or at least, that is what I remember at this point in time (2012). If this
information had to be kept up to date, he taught us, it would take a retina which was 9 centimeters in
diameter. At least that is what I remember at this point in time. I remember repeating this lesson to my
friend Dave at one occasion at my Lake Home. He looked me with a blank stare as if to say "how do you
know that?" and "if that is true, it is a very important piece of information.
I also tried to explain that things are happening so quickly that the artificial means of reproducing what
the mind does is not that far in the future. It is hard, when you are bombarded with information all day
long about how reality is all about Humans, People and Yourself, to realize that engineers are working
seriously on machines that can do what humans do. If you also doubt me, then watch the following
video:
http://youtu.be/quGhaggn3cQ
Check out the definition of:
L. NShadowed
Surface Normals
Masked Depth
Normals
Multitouch
Note the ability to take a finger and "paint" on the 3D reconstructions of objects in a room.
http://youtu.be/nYsqNnDA1l4
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