未来：这个机器人是英国人工智能的替罪羊

IF 2.4 4区工程技术 Q2 ENGINEERING, ELECTRICAL & ELECTRONIC

IEEE Spectrum Pub Date : 2025-03-07 DOI:10.1109/MSPEC.2025.10990329

Allison Marsh

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来见见弗雷德里克·马克2号吧，这个友好的教育、讨论、娱乐、检索信息和整理知识的机器人，更广为人知的名字是弗雷迪2号。这个了不起的机器人可以把扔在工作空间里的各种零件组装成一个简单的汽车模型。它的摄像机眼睛和钳子手在组装所需产品之前识别并分类各个部件。但旁观者必须要有耐心。排序和组装通常需要大约16个小时，这是在一两天的“学习”和编程之后。弗雷迪二世是上世纪六七十年代爱丁堡大学唐纳德·米奇和他的团队开发的一系列研究型机器人之一。在英国，这些机器人成为了一场关于人工智能未来的激烈辩论的焦点。Michie输了，他的资金被掏空了，随后的人工智能寒冬使英国在该领域的研究倒退了10年。

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Past Forward: This Robot Was the Fall Guy for British AI

Meet FREDERICK Mark 2, the Friendly Robot for Education, Discussion and Entertainment, the Retrieval of Information, and the Collation of Knowledge, better known as Freddy II. This remarkable robot could put together a simple model car from an assortment of parts dumped in its workspace. Its video-camera eyes and pincer hand identified and sorted the individual pieces before assembling the desired product. But onlookers had to be patient. sorting and assembly typically took about 16 hours, and that was after a day or two of “learning” and programming. Freddy II was one of a series of research robots developed by Donald Michie and his team at the University of Edinburgh during the 1960s and '70s. The robots became the focus of an intense debate over the future of AI in the United Kingdom. Michie lost, his funding was gutted, and the ensuing AI winter set back U.K. research in the field for a decade.

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IEEE Spectrum 工程技术-工程：电子与电气

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2.50

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254

审稿时长

4-8 weeks

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