Robots – Superhuman Killers Or What? Ted Salon - Newtown - 2009 April 2nd
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ROBOTS – SUPERHUMAN KILLERS OR WHAT?
TED talks at Newtown number one.2 April 2009Dr Michael Harries
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
cute
Toy?
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