Offloading of Artificial intelligence

 AI research in the past was mostly a failure. All the programming languages, projects, neural networks, expert systems and algorithms didn't work. Even if handbooks available like "Russel/norvig: AIMA" these books doesn't contain valuable information but they are collected wrongt theories.

To overcome all the chaos a new paradigm needed, which can be coined as Offloading of Artificial intelligence. The idea is to reduce the robot's control software to the minimum so that its only a receiver for external commands. And the intelligence, the vision system, the algorithms and so on are offloaded to an external entity which is a human operator. The human perceives the scene with its eyes, uses its domain knowledge, takes a decision and then presses a joystick. The signal is send to the robot who is moving the servo motor.

The main advantage of such a minimal robot is its simplicity. There is no need to implement advanced AI algorithms, or write complex software systems but the robot is no longer responsible for the task.

Such kind of teleoperated robot works with two important principles: a) existing theories from mathematics, computer science and psychology are no longer valid b) the only open question is how to design the human to robot communication interface.  For example the signals can be transmitted with a cable, wireless, with a joystick, with speech or with a text interface.

In classical robotics in the past, the bias was that the intelligence inside the robot. The robot consists of a microcntroller, the microcntroller runs a software, the software executes an algorithm and the algorithm consists of artificial inteliigence. In the new paradigm "offloading AI" the robot is reduced to a non thinking device similar to a RC car which receives commands from an external source, similar to a Super turing machine which recieves commands from the oracle. Such a mental short cut allows to explain what intelligence is: intelligence is a signal from the environment. Innstead of generating intelligence inside the robot, the robot needs to receive and interpret the signal.

Offloading intelligence means, that there is a physical distance between the source and the target. The source of intelligence is the human in one location, while the receiver is the robot in the other location. Between them there is a cable. Such a distributed robot system will create a new problem which is how to submit the signal from the source to the target. By answering this question its possible to get a better understanding of intelligence. It transforms a closed system into an open system. The attention gets moved away from the robot itself towards the cable between human and robot.