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Mirrors On Ourselves

Mirrors On Ourselves. Elaine Rich. The Thesis. We (people) think we’re the coolest things on the planet. The Thesis. We (people) think we’re the coolest things on the planet. So it’s not surprising that, throughout history, we’ve thought about making artificial copies of ourselves.

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Mirrors On Ourselves

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  1. Mirrors On Ourselves Elaine Rich

  2. The Thesis We (people) think we’re the coolest things on the planet.

  3. The Thesis We (people) think we’re the coolest things on the planet. So it’s not surprising that, throughout history, we’ve thought about making artificial copies of ourselves.

  4. This Class Our Class: http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/ear/ugs302 The UT Honor Code: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fx8lLiWy26Y

  5. Your First Project The rise of Human-computer cooperation http://www.ted.com/talks/shyam_sankar_the_rise_of_human_computer_cooperation.html Studying Biology to Make Natural-Looking Animation http://www.ted.com/talks/torsten_reil_studies_biology_to_make_animation.html Building a brain in a supercomputer  http://www.ted.com/talks/henry_markram_supercomputing_the_brain_s_secrets.html Engineering robot legs with insects http://www.ted.com/talks/robert_full_on_engineering_and_evolution.html Health and the human mind http://www.ted.com/talks/marvin_minsky_on_health_and_the_human_mind.html Military robots and the future of war http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/pw_singer_on_robots_of_war.html Robots will invade our lives http://www.ted.com/talks/rodney_brooks_on_robots.html Self-aware robots http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/hod_lipson_builds_self_aware_robots.html Seven species of robot http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/dennis_hong_my_seven_species_of_robot.html Surgery’s past, present and robotic future http://www.ted.com/talks/catherine_mohr_surgery_s_past_present_and_robotic_future.html The birth of the computer http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/george_dyson_at_the_birth_of_the_computer.html

  6. Your First Project Come with three: • Themes from the speech • Facts from the speech • Facts about the speaker • Questions you’d have for the speaker • Other links about this topic • Terms you didn’t know • Ideas that interested you Hand in outline and class presentations begin on Tuesday, September 17.

  7. How? With whatever tools we have: • Myths and legends

  8. How? With whatever tools we have: • Myths and legends • Statues

  9. How? With whatever tools we have: • Myths and legends • Statues • Written stories

  10. How? With whatever tools we have: • Myths and legends • Statues • Written stories • Mechanical automata

  11. How? With whatever tools we have: • Myths and legends • Statues • Written stories • Mechanical automata • Radio and movies

  12. How? With whatever tools we have: • Myths and legends • Statues • Written stories • Mechanical automata • Radio and movies • Robots and artificial intelligence

  13. A Chinese Legend Book V of the Book of Lieh-Tzü A book of Taoist teachings from the 3rd century B.C.

  14. Hindu Legends

  15. Rabbi Loew and the Golem The Golem legend from 16th century Prague

  16. Pygmalion and Galatea Recounted by Ovid in about 5 CE Jean-Michel Moreau le Jeune(Les Métamorphoses d'Ovide, Paris 1806).

  17. Frankenstein Mary Shelley, 1818

  18. The Nightingale Written in 1844 by Hans Christian Anderson

  19. Vaucanson’s Automata

  20. The Turk

  21. Chess Today In 1997, Deep Blue beat Garry Kasparov.

  22. Does This Mean It’s Curtains for Humans? How much do you need to know to play chess?

  23. The Origins of AI Hype 1957 Allen Newell and Herb Simon predicted that: "Within ten years a computer will be the world's chess champion, unless the rules bar it from competition."

  24. REEM-A http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/Science-Fiction-News.asp?NewsNum=1212

  25. Watson IBM’s site: http://www-03.ibm.com/innovation/us/watson/what-is-watson/index.html Introduction: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FC3IryWr4c8 Watch a sample round: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFR3lOm_xhE From Day 1 of the real match: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=seNkjYyG3gI Bad Final Jeopardy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwkoabTl3vM&feature=relmfu How does Watson win? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_yXV22O6n4

  26. Dr. Watson A machine like that is like 500,000 of me sitting at Google and Pubmed. http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/10/watson-for-medicine/

  27. Rossum’s Universal Robots A play by Karel Čapek, 1920

  28. The Three Laws of Robotics 1942

  29. With Folded Hands 1947 http://www.otr.net/?p=dimx

  30. Metropolis Created by Fritz Lang in 1927 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSExdX0tds4

  31. Frankenstein 1931, with Boris Karloff

  32. 1951

  33. 1956

  34. 1986

  35. 2004

  36. How Much Computer Power Might It Take? http://www.frc.ri.cmu.edu/~hpm/book97/ch3/index.html

  37. How Much Compute Power is There? Hans Moravec: http://www.frc.ri.cmu.edu/~hpm/talks/revo.slides/power.aug.curve/power.aug.gif

  38. How Much Compute Power Is There?

  39. Can This Trend Continue?

  40. Our Working Definition of AI Artificial intelligence is the study of how to make computers do things that people are better at or would be better at if: • they could extend what they do to a World Wide Web-sized amount of data, and • not make mistakes.

  41. How Will We Recognize AI? 1950 Alan Turing’s paper, Computing Machinery and Intelligence, described a variant of what is now called: http://www.abelard.org/turpap/turpap.htm

  42. The Turing Test

  43. Common Sense Reasoning Mary was excited when she found out that Sue had invited her to her birthday party. She wondered whether she should get her the new Harry Potter book. Mary was excited when she found out that Sue had invited her to her birthday party. She wondered whether she would like the new Harry Potter book.

  44. Are We Special?

  45. The Difference Between Us and Them http://www.google.com/recaptcha/learnmore

  46. Consciousness You

  47. Have We Become Them?

  48. Aaron http://www.viewingspace.com/genetics_culture/pages_genetics_culture/gc_w05/cohen_h.htm

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