About This Video

What is intelligence? Can computers be intelligent? The mechanisms behind human intelligence are poorly understood. Similarly, our conception of the ability of today’s computers could be the result of our own limited understanding. Or is intelligence, by nature, nonprogrammable? Neuroscientist John Donoghue and roboticist Rosalind Picard tease apart the difference between intelligence and pattern recognition.

Recorded June 2010; Posted September 2010