DoC Professor to speak at the Cheltenham Science Festival

Professor Murray Shanahan

Professor Murray Shanahan will be speaking at the Cheltenham Science Festival on Tuesday 12 June. His talk will be titled "S16 Can Robots Think? Or At Least Pretend To?"

 

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S16 Can Robots Think? Or At Least Pretend To? at Town Hall, Pillar Room

Tuesday, June 12, 2012 - 19:15

£9 (£8) - Members 10% discount

S16 Can Robots Think? Or At Least Pretend To?

How close are we to robots that can think, make decisions or even love like humans? Or at least make you think they can? At a time when robots are increasingly working with humans - for example in the care of the elderly and on the battlefield – roboticists Alan Winfield and Murray Shanahan and legal expert Lilian Edwards explore our changing relationship with intelligent machines and whether we can trust robots to work with humans and make decisions affecting human welfare.

 

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