Playing tennis using Human Level Artificial Intelligence

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This video shows a robot playing tennis. There are no sound in the video because I wanted to show the viewers what the robot is thinking while playing the game. The flashing text and freeze frames are the internal thoughts of the robot and not instruction text for the viewers. These internal thoughts describe the details of how the robot produce intelligence.

My robot doesn't use: planning programs/heuristic searches (used by MIT and Stanford University), Bayesian's probability theories for decision making, Bayesian's equation for induction and deduction, semantic networks for natural language understanding, predicate calculus, common sense systems, first-order logic, rule-based systems, genetic programming, or MACHINE LEARNING.

In the game of tennis there are rules and objectives the robot is following during the game. At the same time, the robot has to observe the behavior of the opponent and his particular style of playing. The robot has to formulate strategies that work against the opponent. During the gameplay the robot has found several strategies that work. He has found strategy4, which is to hit the ball in the opposite side of the opponent. For example, if the opponent was on the left side, the robot would hit the ball to the right side. Strategy4 was used to tire the opponent and to make him run. The more running the opponent does, the harder it is for him to control the ball. This opens up opportunities for the player (the robot) to hit the ball pass the opponent.

Innate things like hitting the ball, using the racket, identifying boundaries on the court, and running are second nature to the robot. What this means is that the robot has learned these skills so well that his brain can do them unconsciously, without thinking. Thus, when the robot's brain gives the order to hit the ball to the right, his instincts will kick in and instructions are sent to body parts to move a certain way. These instructions are extracted from intelligent pathways in the robot's brain. By following these intelligent pathways, innate things like movement of body parts, are automatically extracted without thinking. This process is described numerous times in my patent applications and books.

The same method to play tennis is used to play any sport. The computer program inside the robot's conscious is managing the rules/objectives of the game, extracting common sense data, generating facts about the situation, analyzing the game, keeping tab on the score, extracting linear steps for a task/s, analyzing opponent, generating new and old strategies that work, identifying conflicts, solving problems, identifying boundaries of the court, and so forth. The computer program inside the robot's mind is controlling how he thinks during the game. This includes decision making, information gathering, and data processing.