Wired News has a report about the development of artificial imagination for robots, a kind of processing that may allow the leap to intuitive problem-solving (Artificial Imagination Liberates Robots From Original Programming):
An outgrowth of evolutionary-style programming, where software re-writes itself to adapt to problems it faces, the approach starts with robots acting like children, acquiring elemental skills and learning from its environment. These bite-size technological singularities-in-waiting have already starting cracking difficult problems, such as constructing ornithopters [...]
This is no doubt a great advance, but I really mentioned this report simply because they called the bots "bite-size technological singularities-in-waiting." That's one great turn of phrase. So, what are they waiting for? Well, they haven't imagined it yet.
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