Did Turing Dream of Electric People?
- When?
- Wednesday 14 July 2010, 15:30 to 16:30
- Where?
- 39BB02
- Open to:
- Staff, Students
- Speaker:
- Dr Matthew Casey
Despite many advances in computational intelligence, it is clear that we have yet to achieve Turing’s dream of “intelligent machinery” – machines with human-level understanding. A broader reference point for intelligent behaviour which encompasses artificial agents is now being advocated (Cristianini 2010).
In this seminar, I will prompt discussion by asking some key questions, which include “have we forgotten Turing’s dream?” and “should we abandon human intelligence as our reference point?” And of course, I will also provide my own opinion as to what I think the way forward might be.
In preparation for the seminar, participants are asked to read Cristianini’s article:
N. Cristianini, “Are we there yet?” Neural Networks, vol. 23, no. 4, pp. 466–470, 2010.
You may also like to brush up your Turing:
A. M. Turing, “Intelligent machinery,” National Physical Laboratory, Tech. Rep., 1948. [Online]. Available: here
This seminar is part of a series of NICE (Nature Inspired Computing and Engineering) seminars