Alt-BEAM Archive
Message #05137
To: beam@sgiblab.sgi.com
From: JVernonM@aol.com
Date: Thu, 8 Jul 1999 18:25:12 EDT
Subject: [alt-beam] Re: What does purposeful mean, anyway?
In a message dated 7/8/99 3:53:30 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
beamtastic@yahoo.com writes:
> The robot is told to go from point A to
> point B. The robot takes this instruction and proceeds to go from point
> A to B on it's own, without needing a human operator babysitting it's
> every move, because it knows how to take care of itself, and navigate
> the terrain..
AND? Going from one place to another is not much of a purpose.
Jim
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