Dear all,
A reminder that the next CSER <http://cser.org/> seminar is this Friday
(20th), 16:00 – 17:30, in the Alison Richard Building.
Professor Murray Shanahan, professor of Cognitive Robotics at Imperial
College London, will be speaking on 'Minds Like Ours: An Approach
to Artificial Intelligence Risk'. (Abstract below)
The event is free, open to all and will be followed by a drinks reception.
Hope to see you there,
Nick
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Abstract:
"Writers who speculate about the future of artificial intelligence (AI) and
its attendant risks often caution against anthropomorphism, the tendency to
ascribe human-like characteristics to something non human. An AI that is
engineered from first principles will attain its goals in ways that would
be hard to predict, and therefore hard to control, especially if it is able
to modify and improve on its own design.
However, this is not the only route to human-level AI. An alternative is to
deliberately set out to make the AI not only human-level but also
human-like. The most obvious way to do this is to base the architecture of
the AI on that of the human brain. But this path has its own difficulties,
many pertaining to the issue of consciousness. Do we really want to create
an artefact that is not only capable of empathy, but also capable of
suffering?*"*
--
Nicholas Robinson
Seminar Series Administrator
Centre for the Study of Existential Risk
University of Cambridge
http://cser.org
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