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| Human Object Recognition | ||
| System uses human beings as an aid to robotic object recognition. |
What do robots do when they can't identify objects for themselves?
"...They're just plain lifting robots and not too brainy, but good enough to recognize most things they pick up. But not all the time."
| "... whenever a robot finds something it can't identify straight off... it puts whatever it is in the hopper outside your window. You give it a good look, check the list for the proper category if you're not sure, then press the right button and in she goes."
An hour passed before he had his first identification to make. A robot stopped in mid-dump, ground its gears a moment, and then dropped a dead cat into Carl's hopper... Something heavy had dropped on the cat, reducing the lower part of its body to paper-thinness.
Castings... Cast Iron... Cats... There was the bin number. Nine. |
| From The Velvet Glove,
by Harry Harrison. Published by Fantastic Universe in 1956 Additional resources -
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There have been several recent instances in which people have been called upon to make up for the optical recognition features of computers. See the article for Amazon Mechanical Turk. See also a reference from a 1995 novel The Calcutta Chromosome, by Amitav Ghosh. He writes about an artificial intelligence named Ava who needs help constantly.
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