How to Make a Robot Use Theory of Mind

Question 1

charitable

Answer 1

Being a charitable person, you put your hand out to hold the doors.

1. charitable - relating to or characterized by charity; “a charitable foundation”
2. charitable - full of love and generosity; “charitable to the poor”; “a charitable trust”

Question 2

split

Answer 2

In that split second you interpreted other people’s intent and took action to assist

Question 3

envy

Answer 3

These are instinctive behaviors that designers of artificially intelligent machines can only envy.

Question 4

anticipate

Answer 4

1. to realize or feel beforehand; foretaste or foresee: to anticipate pleasure.
2. to expect; look forward to, esp. confidently or with pleasure.

A bellhop robot of the future, for example, would ideally be able to anticipate hotel guests’ needs and intentions based on subtle or even unintentional cues, not just respond to a stock list of verbal commands.

Question 5

extent

Answer 5

In effect it would “understand”—to the extent that an unconscious machine can—what is going on around it, says

Question 6

in conjunction with

Answer 6

together with: The police are working in conjunction with tax officers on the investigation. ♢ The system is designed to be used in conjunction with a word processing program.

Question 7

on-board

Answer 7

adj.
provided on or within a vehicle: on-board services.
In other words, such robots would run an on-board program that models their own behavior in combination with that of other objects and people.

Question 8

infer

Answer 8

1. To conclude from evidence or by reasoning: “For many years the cerebral localization of all higher cognitive processes could be inferred only from the effects of brain injuries on the people who survived them” (Sally E. Shaywitz).
2. To involve by logical necessity; entail: “Socrates argued that a statue inferred the existence of a sculptor” (Academy).
3. (Usage Problem) To indicate indirectly; imply.

Question 9

deduce

Answer 9

1. To reach (a conclusion) by reasoning.
2. To infer from a general principle; reason deductively: deduced from the laws of physics that the new airplane would fly.
3. To trace the origin or derivation of.

Question 10

nascent /ˈnæsənt/

Answer 10

Coming into existence; emerging: “the moral shock of our nascent imperialism” (Richard Hofstadter).
developing, beginning, dawning, evolving, budding, incipient

Question 11

traverse

Answer 11

a. To travel or pass across, over, or through: a ship traversing a channel; light traversing a window.
b. To move to and fro over; cross and recross: traversed the room in thought for an hour.
c. To go up, down, or across (a slope) diagonally, as in skiing.

Question 12

commonplace

Answer 12

But such programming is in its early stages and far from commonplace.

Question 13

depict

Answer 13

1. To represent in a picture or sculpture: Each page’s border has designs that depict forest animals.
2. To represent in words; describe: stories that depict life on the frontier.

Question 14

intent

Answer 14

A good test will be if one robot can listen to statements of intent made by another robot and correctly interpret these statements by simulating them.

Question 15

Link

Answer 15

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-to-make-a-robot-use-theory-of-mind/