Artificial Intelligence
| In a recent podcast, two experts in artificial intelligence – Nick Hawes from Birmingham University and Stuart Armstrong from the Future of Humanity Institute talked about where we’re at with AI, what its potential is, and why most visions of robotic future are quite so bleak, when their potential to do good is so great. |
Perhaps no other field of future technology is debated quite so excitedly as artificial intelligence – not least because of the potential of future robots to be our saviours and our nemesis.
In the podcast above, Julian Blake met two experts in artificial intelligence – Nick Hawes from Birmingham University and Stuart Armstrong from the Future of Humanity Institute to talk about where we’re at with AI, what its potential is, and why most visions of robotic future are quite so bleak, when their potential to do good is so great.
Armstrong’s research at the Future of Humanity Institute centers on formal decision theory, the risks and possibilities of artificial intelligence, the long term potential for intelligent life, and anthropic (self-locating) probability.
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He is particularly interested in finding decision processes that give the “correct” answer under situations of anthropic ignorance and ignorance of one’s own utility function, ways of mapping humanity’s partially defined values onto an artificial entity, and the interaction between various existential risks. He aims to improve the understanding of the different types and natures of uncertainties surrounding human progress in the mid-to-far future.
Hawes' research interests lie in the application of artificial intelligence techniques to create intelligent, autonomous robots that can work with or for humans. He has worked on information-processing architectures for intelligent systems, the integration of AI planning techniques into a variety of robot systems, and the use of qualitative spatial representations to enable robots to reason about the possibilities for action in their worlds.
Hawes' research interests lie in the application of artificial intelligence techniques to create intelligent, autonomous robots that can work with or for humans. He has worked on information-processing architectures for intelligent systems, the integration of AI planning techniques into a variety of robot systems, and the use of qualitative spatial representations to enable robots to reason about the possibilities for action in their worlds.
Hawes' current research is performed as part of the Intelligent Robotics Lab at the University of Birmingham.
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