Artificial Intelligence
Introduction
, What is artificial intelligence?
• Popular conception driven by science ficition
– Robots good at everything except emotions, empathy,
appreciation of art, culture, …
• … until later in the movie.
– Perhaps more representative of human autism than of
(current?) real robotics/AI
• “It is my belief that the existence of autism has
contributed to [the theme of the intelligent but soulless
automaton] in no small way.” [Uta Frith, “Autism”]
• Current AI is also bad at lots of simpler stuff!
• There is a lot of AI work on thinking about what others
are thinking
Introduction
, What is artificial intelligence?
• Popular conception driven by science ficition
– Robots good at everything except emotions, empathy,
appreciation of art, culture, …
• … until later in the movie.
– Perhaps more representative of human autism than of
(current?) real robotics/AI
• “It is my belief that the existence of autism has
contributed to [the theme of the intelligent but soulless
automaton] in no small way.” [Uta Frith, “Autism”]
• Current AI is also bad at lots of simpler stuff!
• There is a lot of AI work on thinking about what others
are thinking