Artificial Intelligence
What are the Isaac Asimov's three rules of robotics?
1) a robot shall never harm a human being 2) a robot shall obey a human being (if not contradictory with law 1) 3) a robot shall protect itself (if not contradictory with law 1 or 2)
3 current applications
1) learning software 2) robotics 3) agents like SIRI 4) AI in games-when games think too much people do not like it
2 problems of recognition software
1) privacy questions-what are acceptable intrusions of privacy by such software? 2) false hits?
What is the second stage of man vs. machine?
Deep blue defest Gary Kasparov in a chess match
Joseph Weizenbaum created what?
ELIZA which is a chatterbox
What is Rabbi Loew's contribution?
Golem which is an artificial man made out of clay
Who coined the phrase "artificial intelligence"?
John McCarthy
What are they using plants for?
Make paints that would generate energy, high jacking the photosynthesis of plants
Who invented the first mechanical calculator?
Pascal
Wolfgang von Kempelen "invented" what?
The Turk, fake chess playing machine
2 defintions of AI
a robot which acts, feels, and functions like a human being a software which has human-like (although "cold") intelligence
What will replace steel?
carbon nanotubes
3 discipline that contribute to the goal of creating intelligent entities
computer science psychology (human reasoning) human biology (how brain works)
Gregor Mendel
father of inheritance, traits are inherited
3 types of recognition software
fingerprint, voice, iris-bio metric devices and most used in casinos
Louise Brown
first test tube baby
Karel Kapek is responsible for what?
he coned the word robot
What did Herb Simon do?
he won the Nobel Prize for the theory of bounded rationality and it brought legitimacy to the field
What are metamaterials used to make?
invisibility cloak
What is ALVINN
it is an autonomous land vehicle in a neural network and it is pre google car
What is the Turing Test? Who made it?
made by Allen Turing and is a test to see if you can distinguish between a machine and human, first stage of man vs. machine
What was the first application identified in the video for metamaterials?
military application
What is a cyborg?
mix between a man and machine
New kind of energy research?
nuclear fusion
What are 2 diseases that nanobots can cure?
obesity and cancer
(blank) things are the hardest to make
simple
Ray Zurweil and Singularity
trans humanist and believes life expectancy should double, he is the father of the term singularity which is when artificial intelligence will surpass human intelligence
What is the grey goo scenario?
when nanobots reproduce at a mass scale and consume all energy leaving behind grey goo
