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At fashion house their seemed to be a dilemma that was to show off clothing so platform robots with interactive screens see to be a solution, was the key to someday building artificially intelligent robots as this puts Parts before smarts. The problem, as Brooks saw it, was that the type of research inspired by Alan Turing’s famous artificial intelligent test had hit a dead end. The Turing test directed decades of AI systems. An efforts towards devising computer systems that “thought” by solving logic problems –focusing on the "sea of symbols", as Brooks put it, that were believed to under gird of the new fashion intelligence system. These systems could shuffle and sort information with dizzying speed, giving them the appearance of intelligence, when performing certain abstract tasks (like playing chess). But when it came to “common sense” intelligence – the kind we rely on when selecting a book from a bookshelf, distinguishing a cat from a dog or a rock, or holding a glass of water without dropping or crushing it – this symbolic, Turing-style AI just couldn’t cope.

 The smart project seemed to be a better alternative for AI was to take a “situated” route, as Brooks called it also the sale of some of these products. The first order of business was to forget about building brains that can solve logical problems. Instead, focus on building bodies that can deal with and respond to the physical world, in other words: build robots. There's something about an embodied agent that seems more "intelligent", in a general sense, than any algorithm. As IBM's watson system may be able to beat humans at jeopardy well maybe with its deep reservoir of facts – an impressive simulation of "book smarts".

But Boston Dynamics' Big Dog robot, maneuvering itself sure-footed up hills and around unfamiliar obstacles, and even maintaining its balance when shoved by its human companion, actually seems to be smart – at least, in the same way a dog or horse is. "One kind of smart has to do with knowing a lot of facts and being able to reason and solve problems; another kind of smart has to do with understanding how our bodies work and being able to control them," says Marc Raibert, CEO of Boston Dynamics. Trying to achieve the kind of smart helps people and animals move with remarkable mobility, agility, dexterity, and speed but as for fashion the time to introduce robots might not be to far away.