The Disappearing Human-Machine Divide
Kevin Warwick, University of Reading
In this presentation Kevin will look at 1. The latest results with
implant technology (linking human brains with computers), 2.
Culturing biological neurons and putting them in a robot body (robots
with biological brains) and 3. Practical Turing Test results (can you
tell the difference between a human and a machine from interactive
communication?). New experimental data will be presented in each of
these areas and participants will be able to see for themselves if
they can tell the difference, in a Turing sense, between human and
machine dialogue. A brief look will be taken at the future and what
all this might mean.
Kevin Warwick is Professor of Cybernetics at the University of
Reading, England, where he carries out research into artificial
intelligence, control and robotics. He was born in Coventry and took
his first degree at Aston University, followed by a PhD and research
post at Imperial College London. He subsequently held positions at
Oxford, Newcastle and Warwick Universities before being offered the
Chair at Reading. As well as publishing over 500 research papers
Kevin has been awarded higher doctorates (DSc) both by Imperial
College and the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague and has received
Honorary Doctorates from 6 Universities. He has appeared in the
Guiness Book of Records for his research on several occasions and is
perhaps best known for his implant self-experimentation, linking his
own nervous system with a computer network.
place and hour: Friday 22 March room QD. at 15h
VUB, Campus Etterbeek
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Francis Heylighen
Evolution, Complexity and Cognition group
Free University of Brussels
http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/HEYL.html
