Day 26: irobots the history of the subject through the lens of Artificial Intelligence research HUM 201 WI 2005

Distributed subjects and stories States Warmachines Diasporas Travel stories with subjects- –Home, journey, return home Travel stories with distributed subjects –Emergence into a new qualitative position (journey-return only one way to think about this)

Distributed subjects Social organisms Plants Rodney Brooks’ robots

Old School AI-Active Agent Early artificial intelligence research dominated by an overly cognitive mode of thinking. –John McCarthy taught at MIT in the 1950s –Help set up Stanford AI lab (1962) –Developed the programming language LISP –Early notion of intelligence as problem solving in games (like chess)

Mike the Headless Chicken eadlesschicken.org/

Rodney Brooks-The loss of the agent Head of MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab Co-founder of irobot corp. –Ph.D. from Stanford. –The importance of feeling, moving, and communicating

Cynthia Brazeal-The emergence of the affective agent How do you build things back up? The rise of “affective computing” Cynthia Brazeal Director of Robotic Life group at MIT What does it mean for a robot to have “emotional intelligence” or “social awareness”

Kismet

Not purely comforting irobot corp. Re-inscribes old relationships between the Department of Defense and AI Military Industrial Complex Military Entertainment Complex Military Domestic Complex?