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Robosemantics: How Stanley the Volkswagen Represents the World

Authors: Christopher Parisien, Paul Thagard

Published in: Minds and Machines | Issue 2/2008

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One of the most impressive feats in robotics was the 2005 victory by a driverless Volkswagen Touareg in the DARPA Grand Challenge. This paper discusses what can be learned about the nature of representation from the car’s successful attempt to navigate the world. We review the hardware and software that it uses to interact with its environment, and describe how these techniques enable it to represent the world. We discuss robosemantics, the meaning of computational structures in robots. We argue that the car constitutes a refutation of semantic arguments against the possibility of strong artificial intelligence.

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Title: Robosemantics: How Stanley the Volkswagen Represents the World
Authors: Christopher Parisien
Paul Thagard
Publication date: 01-06-2008
Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Published in: Minds and Machines / Issue 2/2008
Print ISSN: 0924-6495
Electronic ISSN: 1572-8641
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11023-008-9098-2

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