“Some definitions that you may run into as you read more about (this) in the future:”
Automaton
1. A mechanical figure or contrivance constructed to act as if by its own motive power; robot.
2. A person or animal that acts in a monotonous, routine manner, without active intelligence.
3. Something capable of acting automatically or without an external motive force.
Simulacrum
1. A slight, unreal, or superficial likeness or semblance.
2. An effigy, image, or representation: a simulacrum of Aphrodite.
Doppelgänger
1. A ghostly double or counterpart of a living person.
Golem
1. Jewish Folklore. A figure artificially constructed in the form of a human being and endowed with life.
2. A stupid and clumsy person; blockhead.
3. An Automaton or Android.
1. An automaton in the form of a human being.
Cyborg
1. A person who’s physiological functioning is aided by or dependent upon a mechanical or electronic device.
Cybernetics
1. The study of human control functions and of mechanical and electronic systems designed to replace them, involving the application of statistical mechanics to communication engineering.
Robot
1. A machine that resembles a human and does mechanical, routine tasks on command.
2. Any machine or mechanical device that operates automatically with humanlike skill.
3. Operating automatically: a robot train operating between airline terminals.
Urschleim
1. Original protoplasm from which all life evolved (From the German)
Urschleim in Silicon
1. The birth of Artificial Intelligence in silicon
Finite State Machine
1. An abstract machine consisting of a set of states (including the initial state), a set of input events, a set of output events, and a state transition function. The function takes the current state and an input event and returns the new set of output events and the next state. Some states may be designated as “terminal states”. The state machine can also be viewed as a function that maps an ordered sequence of input events into a corresponding sequence of (sets of) output events.
