Mirrors On Ourselves

Elaine Rich

The Thesis

We (people) think we’re the coolest things on the planet.

The Thesis

We (people) think we’re the coolest things on the planet.

So it’s not surprising that, throughout history, we’ve thought about making artificial copies of ourselves.

This Class

The UT Honor Code:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fx8lLiWy26Y

Our Class:

http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/ear/ugs302

Your First Project

The rise of Human-computer cooperationhttp://www.ted.com/talks/shyam_sankar_the_rise_of_human_computer_cooperation.htmlStudying Biology to Make Natural-Looking Animationhttp://www.ted.com/talks/torsten_reil_studies_biology_to_make_animation.htmlBuilding a brain in a supercomputer http://www.ted.com/talks/henry_markram_supercomputing_the_brain_s_secrets.htmlEngineering robot legs with insectshttp://www.ted.com/talks/robert_full_on_engineering_and_evolution.htmlHealth and the human mindhttp://www.ted.com/talks/marvin_minsky_on_health_and_the_human_mind.htmlMilitary robots and the future of warhttp://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/pw_singer_on_robots_of_war.htmlRobots will invade our liveshttp://www.ted.com/talks/rodney_brooks_on_robots.htmlSelf-aware robotshttp://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/hod_lipson_builds_self_aware_robots.htmlSeven species of robothttp://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/dennis_hong_my_seven_species_of_robot.htmlSurgery’s past, present and robotic futurehttp://www.ted.com/talks/catherine_mohr_surgery_s_past_present_and_robotic_future.htmlThe birth of the computerhttp://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/george_dyson_at_the_birth_of_the_computer.html

Your First Project

• Themes from the speech• Facts from the speech• Facts about the speaker• Questions you’d have for the speaker• Other links about this topic• Terms you didn’t know• Ideas that interested you

Come with three:

Hand in outline and class presentations begin on Tuesday, September 17.

How?

• Myths and legends

With whatever tools we have:

How?

• Myths and legends

• Statues

With whatever tools we have:

How?

• Myths and legends

• Statues

• Written stories

With whatever tools we have:

How?

• Myths and legends

• Statues

• Written stories

• Mechanical automata

With whatever tools we have:

How?

• Myths and legends

• Statues

• Written stories

• Mechanical automata

• Radio and movies

With whatever tools we have:

How?

• Myths and legends

• Statues

• Written stories

• Mechanical automata

• Radio and movies

• Robots and artificial intelligence

With whatever tools we have:

A Chinese Legend

Book V of the Book of Lieh-Tzü

A book of Taoist teachings from the 3rd century B.C.

Hindu Legends

Rabbi Loew and the Golem

The Golem legend from 16th century Prague

Pygmalion and Galatea

Jean-Michel Moreau le Jeune(Les Métamorphoses d'Ovide, Paris 1806).

Recounted by Ovid in about 5 CE

Frankenstein

Mary Shelley, 1818

The Nightingale

Written in 1844 by Hans Christian Anderson

Vaucanson’s Automata

The Turk

Chess Today

In 1997, Deep Blue beat Garry Kasparov.

Does This Mean It’s Curtains for Humans?

How much do you need to know to play chess?

The Origins of AI Hype

1957 Allen Newell and Herb Simon predicted that:

"Within ten years a computer will be the world's chess champion, unless the rules bar it from competition."

REEM-A

http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/Science-Fiction-News.asp?NewsNum=1212

Watson

How does Watson win? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_yXV22O6n4

Watch a sample round: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFR3lOm_xhE

From Day 1 of the real match: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=seNkjYyG3gI

Introduction: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FC3IryWr4c8

IBM’s site: http://www-03.ibm.com/innovation/us/watson/what-is-watson/index.html

Bad Final Jeopardy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwkoabTl3vM&feature=relmfu

Dr. Watson

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/10/watson-for-medicine/

A machine like that is like 500,000 of me sitting at Google and Pubmed.

Rossum’s Universal Robots

A play by Karel Čapek, 1920

The Three Laws of Robotics

1942

With Folded Hands

1947

http://www.otr.net/?p=dimx

Metropolis

Created by Fritz Lang in 1927

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSExdX0tds4

Frankenstein

1931, with Boris Karloff

1951

1956

1986

2004

How Much Computer Power Might It Take?

http://www.frc.ri.cmu.edu/~hpm/book97/ch3/index.html

How Much Compute Power is There?

Hans Moravec: http://www.frc.ri.cmu.edu/~hpm/talks/revo.slides/power.aug.curve/power.aug.gif

How Much Compute Power Is There?

Can This Trend Continue?

Our Working Definition of AI

Artificial intelligence is the study of how to make computers do things that people are better at or would be better at if:

• they could extend what they do to a World Wide Web-sized amount of data, and

• not make mistakes.

How Will We Recognize AI?

1950 Alan Turing’s paper,

Computing Machinery and Intelligence,

described a variant of what is now called:

http://www.abelard.org/turpap/turpap.htm

The Turing Test

Common Sense Reasoning

Mary was excited when she found out that Sue had invited her to her birthday party. She wondered whether she should get her the new Harry Potter book.

Mary was excited when she found out that Sue had invited her to her birthday party. She wondered whether she would like the new Harry Potter book.

Are We Special?

The Difference Between Us and Them

http://www.google.com/recaptcha/learnmore

Consciousness

You

Have We Become Them?

Aaron

http://www.viewingspace.com/genetics_culture/pages_genetics_culture/gc_w05/cohen_h.htm

Should We Do It?

Should We Do It?

Should We Do It?

The Luddites, 1812

A Calmer Vision

We'll be able to send scanners inside the brain, tiny little scanners that are the size of blood cells, that will travel through the brain, through our capillaries, and actually scan the human brain from inside and build up a database that describes everything going on in the human brain. And that's a scenario that will be feasible within 25 years. (1999)

Why?

• Make life easier by creating artificial slaves.

For if every instrument could accomplish its own work, obeying or anticipating the will of others, like the statues of Daedalus, or the tripods of Hephaestus, which, says the poet, of their own accord entered the assembly of the Gods; if, in like manner, the shuttle would weave and the plectrum touch the lyre without a hand to guide them, chief workmen would not want servants, nor masters slaves.

Aristotle, (384 – 322 B.C.), Politics, Book 1, Chapter 4

Why?

• Make life easier by creating artificial slaves.

• Transcend our limitations

Why?

• Make life easier by creating artificial slaves.

• Transcend our limitations

• Actually fix ourselves

http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=4937720n&tag=related;photovideo

Why?

• Make life easier by creating artificial slaves.

• Transcend our limitations

• Actually fix ourselves

• Play God

Why?

• Make life easier by creating artificial slaves.

• Transcend our limitations

• Actually fix ourselves

• Play God

• Derive a better understanding of ourselves