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- Title
AUTONOMOUS ROBOTS AND TACIT KNOWLEDGE.
- Authors
Héder, Mihály; Paksi, Daniel
- Abstract
The recent decade has seen so much development in the area of autonomous robots that it is worth (re-) investigating the relation of machines to knowledge according to the concept of tacit knowledge put forth by Michael Polanyi. In this paper we argue that certain machines-autonomous robots with a 'centre'-have tacit knowledge, much in the same way that animals do. They cannot explicate their knowledge, and their knowledge is not identical with the partly explicit knowledge that an engineer possesses about the machine, e.g. its program code. When someone tries to understand how a robot operates, it is very easy to unreflectively mix these points of view and come to the false conclusion that robots are capable of doing things because they are explicitly instructed to do so.
- Publication
Appraisal, 2012, Vol 9, Issue 2, p8
- ISSN
1358-3336
- Publication type
Academic Journal