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  • Man-Made Minds: Living with Thinking Machines

    Full 90 Minute Program: In recent years, machines have grown increasingly capable of listening, communicating, and learning—transforming the way they collaborate with us, and...

  • Robot Learning: Rebuilding Newton

    Hod Lipson’s self-aware robot used feedback from its limbs in order to learn how to walk. He had successfully created a machine that learns like we do, with observation, modeling,...

  • Robot’s First Steps

    As infants, we had to learn how to use our limbs in order to crawl and then to walk. Always taking cues from nature, roboticists such as Hod Lipson have tapped into an important,...

  • Robot Learning: Look at My Watch

    A simple gesture, such as pointing, is filled to the brim with social cues, feedback, and expectations—many of which are subconscious. Roboticists like Rodney Brooks know that...

  • Triage by Transistors

    Doctors are sworn to “first, do no harm.” Robots in Isaac Asimov’s science fiction literature are sworn to do the same. Now, thanks to computer scientist Eric Horvitz’s research,...

  • Inside the Mind of WATSON the Supercomputer

    Building a computer capable of winning a game show such as Jeopardy! takes much more than bestowing upon it the breadth of human knowledge. It has to be a fluent English speaker,...

  • Double Jeopardy: WATSON

    Get inside the mind of a supercomputer as it goes head-to-head against the expert panel of roboticists. David Ferrucci, lead researcher on the WATSON project, pulls back the...

  • The Ghost in the Machine

    What is a soul? Is there really something to it, or is it a product of platonic essentialism—our “human-ness”—guided by mathematical computation? As the field of robotics...

Blog Posts

  • Man-Made Minds: Full Program Now Available

    All week, we've been exploring the next-generation of robots and thinking machines, hearing from the leading minds, who stand to reinvent what know as artificial intelligence. Today, we present the full program of Man-Made Minds in all its glory.

  • I, Learning Robot

    Yesterday we saw Eric Horvitz's Bayesian Medical Kiosk in action. He showed us the potential in human/robot interaction and it's potential in public health applications. Today we look at machines that interact on an interpersonal, physical level—from making eye contact and...

  • Medical Machines

    The goal of the WATSON/Jeopardy! project seen earlier this week was to demonstrate the power of natural language interfaces when connected to a trove of knowledge. Scientists like Eric Horvitz and David Ferrucci envision computers like WATSON being in hospitals worldwide to aid...

  • How Does WATSON Think?

    Building a computer capable of winning a game show such as Jeopardy! takes much more than bestowing upon it the breadth of human knowledge. It has to be a fluent English speaker, too.

  • Machine Intelligence: Stronger, Faster, Smarter?

    Computers and robots have long been able to crunch impossibly large numbers and execute complex, scripted tasks. However, now they're winning game shows, teaching themselves how to walk, and even rediscovering calculus. But do they truly think? Can they ever learn to feel? And...

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