James May - ASIMO Robot learns object identity *HQ*

[vijayragavn]

I can't help but imagine James May would be brilliant no matter what is thrown at him. My God he knows how stuff and takes genuine interest on what he is presenting.

[ladylucrecia123]

Asimo's cute

[meantism]

That's a midget in a robot suit

[elvee88]

"mini pooper"

[Ectosage]

Oooh, I just want to hug it.

[iamcalmorrison]

Does anyone know the music half way through this? The trancey strings tune when the Asimo first meets his grandpa.. Would love to get the music there, please help :) Great Episode, thanks for uploading this!

[hadabenz]

2:20 ahahahahahha asimo wants to touch James' renowned "cock"

[dynetrax]

I saw this robot in person at disneyland lol

[Lucifera1011]

As James May I'm not so sure these robots can't take over the world. Just read the book called R.U.R ( Rossum's Universal Robots) written about this theme by visionary famous Czech writer Karel Čapek . He wrote it in 1920!!! His brother Josef Čapek invented the word "Robot".  In that time it was just amasing fiction..... now this is perfect example it doesn't need to be fiction at all.

[Antifaith29]

*BSG Music*

The Cylons were created by man.

[TheMightyHarihar]

WE have to remember the name of the object is not critical for intelligence, i.e. we as humans have 1000s of languages, but the understanding of each object. What you can do to it etc, what it is used for.

[heywhojustfarted]

Vtec yo!

[DomBittner]

This is a bad idea

[Arthurein]

@DomBittner You are as well.

But that's not the point, I guess. :P

[XHikotheproX]

Mini Pooper.. ok! XD

[Zareste]

Maybe a better approach would be to gear robots to have neural systems like ours - ones that deal less with numbers and more with flexible conditioned responses.

[Nightmonkey17]

That's some HAL stuff right there.

[emme114]

it really is like a small child, go on like that teaching him, give him watsons speech-computer and we'll have a mechanical human in 10 years  :P

[Woldorx]

Does anybody know the name of the mysterious song playing when Asimo is scanning the toy car and robot?

[ikt93]

I want one.

[MrLasicak]

Its interesting that simple behavior like, smiling, attempts to touch things, inspective moves of head and interest to learn starts maternal reflex in humans. We are programed too.

[QWieke]

Does anyone know what music is playing around 5:30 (the bit with the chair/table)?

[JD12ish]

James: "Pay attention ASIMO, this is one of the most important small cars in history..." "...Mini Cooper"

ASIMO: "Mini Pooper"

[Zunouno]

which season of top gear is this on? Anyone know the episode?

[rocker26a]

Could they not give it a cuter voice? :c

Oh well xP

[JPacheco91]

Amazing....

[badabumbadabing1]

they should stop working on that shit

[Miang2612]

reminds me of A.I. the movie

[needler117]

well were dead

[o0YumRamen0o]

In the future it is likely that what we create might accidentally kill us

[tidalwaver123]

does it have emotiions??

[TheSI3DRemakist]

hang on what did james say?

Something little brat?

What does that word mean?

[jacksawild]

@TheSI3DRemakist Precocious.

[ryker012]

Asimo seems to actually think about his answer, that is mind blowing. I wish i could meet the little guy :(

[LinkMyBoy]

I was impressed it recognised that it may have been a toy car

[Betsonesta]

This is amazing, the way it reaches out and everything, im truly left speechless

[jonathan102]

what show is this from?

[jennymanda]

@jonathan102

James May's Big Ideas

[poket6]

Asimo, the next terminator?

[LadyYuzuki]

uwuaaaah, i sooooo wanna get into robotics!

[MaximuMMaximus1]

well, better start stockpiling on EMP grenades

[thedogsbreakfast]

Amazing

[Judes6647]

Those must be as expensive as hell. I wish I had one.

[MegaShiny]

Take that japan.

[typesblkura]

@MegaShiny Asimo is a Japanese robot...developed by Honda

[mariotaz]

@MegaShiny

Says the Honda label clearly on the front.

Also, I doubt robots will take over the world.

[sirjosh12107]

hes adorible i want like 4000 of him

[foxdmulder]

All I can really say is: WOW!

[luceneInAction]

If this video is accurate, it seems that a wide range of manual tasks, such as harvesting fruits and vegetables or basic janitorial work, will eventually be handle by robots. While people fret about the export of low wage factory work or the influx of immigrants to do low skill jobs, they need to realize that eventually those jobs will be done by robots, not people. You have to wonder what this means economically for hundreds of millions of people around the world.

[star112345]

@luceneInAction

it means that more robotics experts will be needed, and people to produce the parts needed for the robots, and supervisors to monitor the robots

[rock3tcat]

"Maybe toy car"

That sentence alone shows how amazing Asimo's abilities really are. :D

[FHCTech]

@rock3tcat

Its just a database of items, sorted by size and color. You write a piece of code that can search and compare items in the database....

Nothing that amazing. Computers do that all the time.

All ASIMO does is give a computer a human-like box. This is not intelligence and not learning.

[TheJboy88]

I don't know about the rest of you but I am seriously hoping that one day, intelligent machines will exist and be able to interact with humans peacefully, without any of the "doom and gloom" apocalypse theories of science fiction and be accepted as welcome members of the population, maybe even stand for political office one day.........although that one is probably hoping too much, forgive me if I sounded ridiculous on that one

[halfmumi]

what is the name of this tv programme?

[accuristau]

Why do I find this so touching? it's only a damn machine.

[DUALFACE]

Very cool. It's always fun to see these sorts of things on Science Channel and what have you and I'm always MORE amazed at how primitive AI is in 2010 (STILL) compared to what we see possible in movies. I know our machines will eventually get there through their evolutions of AI but dang is it ever s-l-o-w.

[URProductions]

Was this on Top Gear?

[luthierjustin1]

@URProductions

nope

[JessicaLeighAdams]

it was on james may's big ideas

[URProductions]

James May's a cool guy

[geekthinker]

Can this ASIMO open a door ;)

[deadfrd]

I heard mini pooper also bballplayer6868

[lendmeurears]

Still though I read that robotics intelligence presently is equivalent to that of a retarded cockroach. But this is back in the early part of this decade. Don't know about Asimo 2.0 Anyway I thought Asimo was a Japanese project?

[taufiq1991]

his imagination would be random generator

[AlexKasper]

But the mini cooper IS a toy car!

[ChilapaOfTheAmazons]

Yes, it has seen toy cars before, so at first it identified the mini cooper as a generic toy car. But then it was told that this specific toy car is a mini cooper.

[svsguru2000]

it could also mean that he has overwritten the original "toycar" for the generic class of object with "mini cooper".

if you showed him another toycar, like a ferrari, he might also identify it as a mini cooper.

[ricefarmer]

where is part 2!!!

[llamamebrucelee]

Yeah yeah, is very cute. But they star like this and the next thing you know is SKYNET!!

[bballplayer6868]

If you listen closley he calls it a mini pooper. Priceless

[AppleScruffWitch]

How interesting!

[Andraan]

This is just a bit out there i think.

They claim asimo can "learn" object identitys, while really all it does is recognise shapes and objects people have "programmed" it to know. Its still impressive that he could part the table from the chairs, but still it is merely just programming.

[Anubis77]

Did your parents not program you to recognize shapes and objects? You can reduce a human and any other organism to "mere programming" through our DNA as well. You can reduce any complex process down to its fundamentals and call it "mere" whatever. Emergence is what's important. Our singular dumb neurons produce spectacular intelligence and consciousness en mass through the direction of biological programming. No reason why the same can't apply to other computation units if properly organized.

[Benjii720]

i think he probably would have made some mistakes when they asked if the table was a chair because the table has a tablecloth so he can't see the entire table i wonder what he would do...

[brygidawalczak]

the exercice proves we are programmed through learning

[Gagonic]

My god... We are going to have to work on our people skills, that's for sure.

[Battybribri]

D'aww! He wants the toy! Give it too him!

[Charles2337]

That is just so amazing.

[greenpenguino]

that's so cute when he says grandpa

[ndidus]

mini pooper

[brutalkidde15]

2:52 LOL

[LunchAnderson]

This is definitely amazing. It's more obvious to me than ever that we are one day going to create robots with the same cognitive capabilites as that of an adult human being. This will seem threatening to a lot of people, and not just because they take movies like the Terminator a bit too seriously, but also because it would challenge their view of what it means to be human.

[linkdude64]

@LunchAnderson That reminds me of Blade Runner.

[VicariousExtrospect]

@LunchAnderson

Well at least with the machine if they act like an asshole you can just reprogram them.

[Nayrbarr1234]

@LunchAnderson Beautifully said.

[buddyjesus1000]

@LunchAnderson also what they could be used for

[platch23]

Omg. Amazing.

[JUKIO01]

i hope one day i can get a job working for asimo, unlikely though. but i do wish to work on some robotics, or artificial intelligence. would be awesome