AI-ROBOSEARCH

Glossary - Team 1

Artificial Intelligence (AI)
McCarthy (1998) defined AI as the science and engineering of making intelligent machines. In other words, AI is the intelligent behaviour displayed by machines (software interacting with hardware), allowing them to characterise themselves in a more “human” way, which can be through perception of their environment, or calculations of risk management, for example.

Biological-AI (Bio-AI)
To many passing decades, humanity had a perception of computers as working intelligence. This was inspired by our one and only brain. That’s the interesting part. Our brain is biological. Scientists are in the movement all about a shift in the main idea of computing from the core idea of artificial intelligence to artificial biology. Like our body that is capable of self-recovery on certain extents, biological AI is ideologically expressed as software that can heal itself or “die off” without affecting the whole. This does not only involve software, but living things as well. How living things can and will be programmed someday to serve purposes for hopefully the greater good.

Ecosystem
Photo credits: https://elearn.sunway.edu.my/bbcswebdav/pid-26888-dt-content-rid-50574_1/courses/MGT2024/Lecture%2010.pdf

Within a particular area, an ecosystem is whereby all of the living things in that region interact with each other. This includes the living things interacting with the non-living environments such as the Earth, Sun, Soil and so on. Within each and every ecosystem, each organism has its own part to play. Whenever an alien factor (living thing) gets introduced to the environment, it can cause chaos to that particular ecosystem. It’s because this threat will distort the natural balance or status quo and may harm or even destroy the ecosystem.

Robots 
The modern robots were first used in manufactories, at that time they have limited capabilities of running the manufacturing tasks which permitted production without the assistance provided by the human. However, nowadays as machines get ever more intelligent, they are emerging not just as powerful tools, but close companions. Forbes news (2015) points that mobile robots will be used for many areas such as a school teacher of languages, elderly and child care, butlers, security, delivery services, or even for conducting health care checkups and operations in the future.

Sapience
A set of capacities associated with higher intelligence, such as self‐ awareness and being a reason‐responsive agent

Sentience
The capacity for phenomenal experience or qualia, such as the capacity to feel pain and suffer

Technology
Technology is the assemblage of techniques, skills, methods and procedures employed in the yield of goods or services or in the achievement of objectives, such as scientific investigation. Many technical experts at the time had doubts about the technology, however, it is ture that science and techonology have made major changes to the way we live. In modern society, most people agree that technology is a double-edged sword. It brings the hope and advantages to us, meanwhile, it may lead people to feel trampled or even get into a danger situation.


Science and Technology Pioneers: 

Elon Musk
Founder of Tesla (Motors and Aerospace Manufacturer)

Photo credits: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/10544247/Meet-tech-billionaire-and-real-life-Iron-Man-Elon-Musk.html


Stephen Hawking
The man who is in the AI wheelchair that helps him to talk!  Those around him are his family in Cambridge, UK.

Photo credits: Kim Lee G. - Original photo taken at Science Conference, Cambridge, UK, 2010.













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