From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!ihnp4!ihuxr!lew
Newsgroups: net.ai
Title: actions speak louder than words
Article-I.D.: ihuxr.328
Posted: Sun Feb 13 22:34:10 1983
Received: Wed Feb 16 01:35:32 1983
Reply-To: lew@ihuxr.UUCP (Lew Mammel, Jr.)

A recent cover article of Scientific American was about building
walking machines. The cover picture showed an aerial view of a man
in the cockpit of a mechanical roach. This, according to the article,
does not exemplify "true walking" since the machine is statically
stable at all times. Bipeds and quadrapeds walk with gaits that require
balance.

What I'm trying to build up to is that it would be a great AI achievment
to build an android that could, say, run an obstacle course, or perform
on the high bar, or even walk down a city street or across a plowed field.
I'll bet most people could hardly help attributing consciousness to it,
so powerful would be the visual impact ... and it wouldn't have to say a
word!

	Lew Mammel, Jr. ihuxr!lew