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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.
This Class
The UT Honor Code:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fx8lLiWy26Y
Our Class:
http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/ear/ugs302
Your First Project
The rise of Human-computer cooperationhttp://www.ted.com/talks/shyam_sankar_the_rise_of_human_computer_cooperation.htmlStudying Biology to Make Natural-Looking Animationhttp://www.ted.com/talks/torsten_reil_studies_biology_to_make_animation.htmlBuilding a brain in a supercomputer http://www.ted.com/talks/henry_markram_supercomputing_the_brain_s_secrets.htmlEngineering robot legs with insectshttp://www.ted.com/talks/robert_full_on_engineering_and_evolution.htmlHealth and the human mindhttp://www.ted.com/talks/marvin_minsky_on_health_and_the_human_mind.htmlMilitary robots and the future of warhttp://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/pw_singer_on_robots_of_war.htmlRobots will invade our liveshttp://www.ted.com/talks/rodney_brooks_on_robots.htmlSelf-aware robotshttp://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/hod_lipson_builds_self_aware_robots.htmlSeven species of robothttp://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/dennis_hong_my_seven_species_of_robot.htmlSurgery’s past, present and robotic futurehttp://www.ted.com/talks/catherine_mohr_surgery_s_past_present_and_robotic_future.htmlThe birth of the computerhttp://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/george_dyson_at_the_birth_of_the_computer.html
Your First Project
• 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
Come with three:
Hand in outline and class presentations begin on Tuesday, September 17.
How?
• Myths and legends
With whatever tools we have:
How?
• Myths and legends
• Statues
With whatever tools we have:
How?
• Myths and legends
• Statues
• Written stories
With whatever tools we have:
How?
• Myths and legends
• Statues
• Written stories
• Mechanical automata
With whatever tools we have:
How?
• Myths and legends
• Statues
• Written stories
• Mechanical automata
• Radio and movies
With whatever tools we have:
How?
• Myths and legends
• Statues
• Written stories
• Mechanical automata
• Radio and movies
• Robots and artificial intelligence
With whatever tools we have:
A Chinese Legend
Book V of the Book of Lieh-Tzü
A book of Taoist teachings from the 3rd century B.C.
Hindu Legends
Rabbi Loew and the Golem
The Golem legend from 16th century Prague
Pygmalion and Galatea
Jean-Michel Moreau le Jeune(Les Métamorphoses d'Ovide, Paris 1806).
Recounted by Ovid in about 5 CE
Frankenstein
Mary Shelley, 1818
The Nightingale
Written in 1844 by Hans Christian Anderson
Vaucanson’s Automata
The Turk
Chess Today
In 1997, Deep Blue beat Garry Kasparov.
Does This Mean It’s Curtains for Humans?
How much do you need to know to play chess?
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."
REEM-A
http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/Science-Fiction-News.asp?NewsNum=1212
Watson
How does Watson win? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_yXV22O6n4
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
Introduction: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FC3IryWr4c8
IBM’s site: http://www-03.ibm.com/innovation/us/watson/what-is-watson/index.html
Bad Final Jeopardy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwkoabTl3vM&feature=relmfu
Dr. Watson
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/10/watson-for-medicine/
A machine like that is like 500,000 of me sitting at Google and Pubmed.
Rossum’s Universal Robots
A play by Karel Čapek, 1920
The Three Laws of Robotics
1942
Metropolis
Created by Fritz Lang in 1927
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSExdX0tds4
Frankenstein
1931, with Boris Karloff
1951
1956
1986
2004
How Much Computer Power Might It Take?
http://www.frc.ri.cmu.edu/~hpm/book97/ch3/index.html
How Much Compute Power is There?
Hans Moravec: http://www.frc.ri.cmu.edu/~hpm/talks/revo.slides/power.aug.curve/power.aug.gif
How Much Compute Power Is There?
Can This Trend Continue?
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.
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
The Turing Test
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.
Are We Special?
The Difference Between Us and Them
http://www.google.com/recaptcha/learnmore
Consciousness
You
Have We Become Them?
Aaron
http://www.viewingspace.com/genetics_culture/pages_genetics_culture/gc_w05/cohen_h.htm
Should We Do It?
Should We Do It?
Should We Do It?
The Luddites, 1812
A Calmer Vision
We'll be able to send scanners inside the brain, tiny little scanners that are the size of blood cells, that will travel through the brain, through our capillaries, and actually scan the human brain from inside and build up a database that describes everything going on in the human brain. And that's a scenario that will be feasible within 25 years. (1999)
Why?
• Make life easier by creating artificial slaves.
For if every instrument could accomplish its own work, obeying or anticipating the will of others, like the statues of Daedalus, or the tripods of Hephaestus, which, says the poet, of their own accord entered the assembly of the Gods; if, in like manner, the shuttle would weave and the plectrum touch the lyre without a hand to guide them, chief workmen would not want servants, nor masters slaves.
Aristotle, (384 – 322 B.C.), Politics, Book 1, Chapter 4
Why?
• Make life easier by creating artificial slaves.
• Transcend our limitations
Why?
• Make life easier by creating artificial slaves.
• Transcend our limitations
• Actually fix ourselves
http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=4937720n&tag=related;photovideo
Why?
• Make life easier by creating artificial slaves.
• Transcend our limitations
• Actually fix ourselves
• Play God
Why?
• Make life easier by creating artificial slaves.
• Transcend our limitations
• Actually fix ourselves
• Play God
• Derive a better understanding of ourselves