I came across a couple of interesting things today. The first is from Wired, where Marvin 'AI' Minsky is lamenting the comatose state of AI research:
Wired 11.08: VIEW
What's overpopulation got to do with AI?
The elderly segment of the population is growing to the point where there won't be enough doctors, nurses, and nurses' aides. We should be working to get robots to pick up the slack.
The second shows that people ARE actually working on this. One of the people behind it taught Helga at University of Pittsburgh.
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