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AI 2010: Wall-e or Rise of the Machines?
Date/Time: 3:30 p.m. Monday
Panelists: Mason Hale (OneSpot), Doug Lenat (Cycorp), Bart Selman (Cornell University), Natasha Vita-More (H+ Lab), Peter Stone (UT Austin)
The gist: As artificial intelligence continues to advance, what are some of the issues we need to be concerned with? It took a while for each of the speakers to explain what they worked on, so the panel didn’t quite get to whether it was going to be a Wall-e scenario or something more sinister, but they did show some very interesting examples of AI, including a project to develop humanoid robots that will eventually be able to compete with a human team (the goalies need a lot of work), and a model of how automated vehicles would negotiate an intersection without the need for traffic lights or signs. Quotes: “Looking ahead ten years, we’ll see mental prostheses that help us think better.” “Overall, while AI will augment human abilities in many different areas, artistic abilities are going to be doable, but they’re not going to replace what humans can do.” - Doug Lenat
“At best we cannot fully predict the behavior of an AI controlled system” -Bart Selman
Takeaways: While we still haven’t gotten to the point where Google can fully understand what we are asking, we have gotten to the point where a humanoid robot playing soccer can make a decision of how to act based on the position of its teammates and the ball. That seems to skew more toward Terminator than Disney, but who knows.
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