Some specialist AI agents that I collaborate with:
1. natural language knowledge base*
2. machine/process control agent**
3. recommenders***
4. planner/scheduling agent
5. calculators****
6. summarizer
7. A.s.a. H.
* which I use every day.
** see, as an early example, Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science, vol. 101, pg 132, 1998.
*** which know my wishes/likes/activities.
**** machines have been better than humans at arithmetic for a long time now.
A.s.a. H. does not "stand-by" or "idle", it's always thinking*, even when its sensory input is minimal. I'd be interested then to see A.s.a. ask any questions "unprovoked."
* Unlike LLMs and many other AIs.
I got my PhD in physics 50 years ago. At that time we thought commercial fusion reactors were "right around the corner."
By one count I have 68 small robots and the component parts* for at least 20 more. Some of these are obsolete and others soon will be**. I try to counter this to some degree using reconfigurable designs* but this can increase the costs involved*** and so is not a universal solution.
* For example LEGO, Meccano, Vex IQ, Vex EDR, Raspberry Pis, etc.
** For example LEGO RCX, NXT, Ev3, early Arduinos, etc. The LEGO Technic cables from my RCX Mindstorms sets are actually disintegrating due to age.
*** Hacking toys, for instance, can be cheaper. See my blogs of 1 March and 7 April 2025.
My specialist AIs* are my version of SCSs (Self-Contained Systems**), software AND hardware. With cointelligence some of the specialist agents can even be humans.
* See, as one example, my blog of 1 July 2023.
** See scs-architecture.org
It needs to be remembered that Starship is the high risk approach (my blog of 12 August 2021). There will be failures.
The environment needs to be automated too, with roadway navigation beacons, digital traffic signs and signals, smart traffic lights, etc. so as to monitor and then control vehicle traffic.
