And where the essence of humanity is, is harder and harder to find.Īnd very recently, just this year, we started to see that human flesh and body plans are subject to technological manipulation. And as we've understood biochemistry better and better, we find that we're collections of tiny machines. So the thought process, the logic process, was sort of taken away from us. Human thought is the same as computation and, hence, fits on machines. Then if you look back in the middle of '50s, you have, McCarthy, et cetera- and Turing, of course. And as you get further and further down here, and as you get further and further south in the US, not everyone has accepted all these things. And each of these retreats has been met by a lot of argument and a lot of fear. And you see, sort of, that we're retreating here from all these special things. Their origins are not that different.Ĭrick and Watson, with DNA and the mechanism of life, means that humans and yeast are pretty similar. And then Darwin came along and we saw that humans and animals have common ancestors. And so this piece of rock that we're standing on wasn't particularly special. Galileo and others around there let us know that the Earth was no longer the center of the universe. I know that, in the last few hundred years, we've seen mankind's retreat from specialness. But the question is, to me, whether we can ever have humanity in robots- whether we can think of them in the same way we think of other humans.Īnd that's all tied up with lots of beliefs we have and lots of insecurities we have. So I've got some little diversions along the way, which aren't necessarily straight along the line here. #Scientific explanation for orbs in videos how to#And the title is "Artificial Humanity," but it's a non-linear talk because, to be honest, I couldn't figure out how to fill up a whole hour. Well, this talk is a little different from the ones I normally give- even less technical detail than normal. Rod's latest attempt to rebuild intelligent creatures goes a little bit beyond insects, hence the title of his paper, "Artificial Humanity." And so I'm very happy, and glad, and pleased to welcome you here.īROOKS: Thank you. His movie, Fast, Cheap, and Out of Control- named after a research paper of his- is currently running at Kendall Theatre and I can only highly recommend you all to go there. #Scientific explanation for orbs in videos movie#And recently, he even became a movie star. For his work, he received numerous awards, became, in 1996, a fellow in the American Association of the Advancement of Science, and is, today, accepted as the so-called father of embodied AI. He then built creatures- insect-like robots- which were far better than anything else which had been built before in navigating an unstructured world and natural environments. Based on the work of Maturana and Varela- Varela, by the way, will give his talk in two weeks here- Rod started to perceive intelligence as being in the world, as interaction, as embodiment. Since AI had failed to reach its goal of human-like, intelligent machines, Rod broke with most assumptions of his field and started anew. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from Stanford, where he was mostly interested in vision.Īnd when he came to MIT, in 1981, he was still mostly interested in classical AI problems, but, slowly, his focus began to shift. But Rod is currently the director of the Artificial Intelligence Lab here, at MIT. And with the introduction, it's always a little bit difficult if you actually have to introduce your own boss. The other dates you will all find in that little brochure.Īnd now I'm very pleased and happy to welcome to Rodney Brooks. So you are very welcome to bring your questions and discussions you cannot address today to this discussion group on Monday. The discussion meetings at Harvard Divinity School- the first one is on Monday, at 12 o'clock, at Harvard Divinity School- 45 Francis Avenue- run by Harvey Cox and me. And today, now, we hear about robotics.īefore we can start about that, just briefly, one thing- if you happen to have this brochure- I have also some left. Last week, we heard about brains, and brain function, and where spirituality might be localized in them or might be able to localize them. Then we heard about animals by Mark Hauser- animals and consciousness, animal and ethics. ANNA: Welcome to the fourth lecture of the lecture series, "God and Computers: Minds, Machines, and Metaphysics." The first lecture was about the human factor, given by Paul Penfield.
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