New York: Robots had to play a puzzle game for the self-awareness. For the first time a robot was displayed to the human trait of self-awareness while attempting a classic logic puzzle, says scientist from New York. Famous puzzle known as The Kings Wise Men, where three wise men are given hats of either white or blue, with the guarantee that at least one among the hats is blue.
According to this puzzle the men in the game are not allowed to talk. The first man to stand up and correctly announce the colour of his hat wins the game.
But here, the robots had button pressed on their heads which muted two of the robots. then they were asked if they had been given the dumbling pills.
One robot stood up and said “I don’t know”, after few seconds.
It immediately realised what had happened, raised its hand and said, “Sorry, I know now. I was able to prove that I was not given the dumbing pill.”
Selmer Bringsjord, from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute AI and Reasoning Lab in New York, used three of French robotics company Aldebaran’s humanoid Nao robots.
