Robots – Superhuman Killers Or What? Ted Salon - Newtown - 2009 April 2nd

TED talks at Newtown number one. 2 April 2009 Dr Michael Harries ROBOTS – SUPERHUMAN KILLERS OR WHAT?

Human like

Human-smart

threatening

Asimov’s Three Laws of Robotics: 1. a robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm; 2. a robot must obey orders given to it by human beings, except where such orders would conflict with the First Law; 3. and a robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.

utilitarian

helpful

autonomous

emotional

bizzare

Today’s TED  just smart enough  capable  learn and model the world  believable, emotional, and appealing

Rodney Brooks  MIT professor Rodney Brooks  Australian  Pioneer of bottom up robotics  Studies and engineers robot intelligence  Looking for the holy grail of robotics: the AGI, or artificial general intelligence.

Hod Lipson  Cornell University Associate Professor  (a) Can we design machines that can design other machines, and  (b) Can we make machines that can make other machines.

Caleb Chung  Toy inventor  Furby – rockstar status  Pleo – “supercute baby dinosaur that begins its emotional and intellectual development when you pull it out of the box” Slice of a talk

Robots – Superhuman Killers Or What? Ted Salon - Newtown - 2009 April 2nd

by Michael Harries on Jun 08, 2009

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