Man-Made Minds: Living with Thinking Machines | 2015

In recent years, machines have grown increasingly capable of listening, communicating, and learning—transforming the way they collaborate with us, and significantly impacting our economy, health, and daily routines. Who, or what, are these thinking machines? As we teach them to become more sophisticated, how will they complement our lives? What will separate their ways of thinking from ours? And what happens when these machines understand data, concepts, and behaviors too big or impenetrable for humans to grasp? We were joined by IBM’s WATSON, the computer Jeopardy! champion, along with leading roboticists and computer scientists, to explore the thinking machines of today and the possibilities to come in the not-too-distant future.

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Original Program Date: June 4, 2011
MODERATOR: Faith Salie
PARTICIPANTS: Rodney Brooks, David Ferrucci, Eric Horvitz, Hod Lipson

Video Introduction: "Can Machines Think?" 00:13

Faith Salie's Introduction 02:40

Participant Introductions 04:13

Behavior based robotics. 08:14

Domo the robot. 10:34

Interacting with robots. 15:08

What is the Uncanny Valley Theory? 16:12

Why did Watson want to take on Jeopardy? 20:56

What has Watson gotten wrong? 29:24

Did Watson get faster at thinking? 36:40

Where are we on building real AI? 44:30

Using AI in the medical Field. 52:40

Weak AI vs Strong AI 58:50

Is there something different about a real human that a perfect replica of a human? 01:00:55

What does self awareness mean? 01:05:20

The challenge of teaching AI to problem solve. 01:12:47

The future is to get AI to ask questions. 01:18:40

What are the negatives of creating AI? 01:24:40