AI powered by natural language

An often asked question in the last 70 years of robotics research was: where is the AI located in a robot? It took around the year 2010 until researchers have answered this important question. The AI brain is located in natural language. A state of the art robot converts natural language into servo motor movements and has a access to large database with natural language commands. This allows the machine to think, take decisions and act.

The principle of realizing artificial intelligence with natural language was imagined before the year 2010 in projects like Televox robot (1929), SHRDLU (1968), Maniac Mansion game (1987) and Vitra visual translator (1987). The innovation which takes place after the year 2010 was, that AI was located only in English sentence but not in other potential sources like path planning algorithms, genetic algorithms, neural networks or expert systems.

The claim is that without natural language interface, its impossible to program a robot. Natural language is the only needed and most powerful tool to realize intelligent machines. There is no need to focus only on the English language because other human languages like German or French works also well. The only precondition is, that its a natural language with a large vocabulary to describe the reality in nouns, adjectives and verbs. Its not possible to use a programming language like Java or C++ for this purpose, but only natural language are powerful enough to grasp the environment of a robot.

Modern robotics after the year 2010 can be described as a semiotic interpretation engine which is able to use grounded language to convert high level symbols into low level motor actions. In other words, modern robotics doesn't work with algorithms or computer programs but the AI was realized with an advanced user interface similar to what is known from Maniac Mansion adventure game. The user interface on the bottom of the screen allows a human to machine interaction and this translation process can generate artificial intelligence.