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This lecture is part of a course on the Theory of Computation, by Professor Gabriel Robins at the University of Virginia (CS3102 Spring 2018), with PowerPoint slides at http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~robins/cs3102 and other related videos at http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~robins/videos.html
Specific topics covered in this lecture: the Turing test (continued), who/what can pass the Turing test?, Frankenstein stories, sentient beings from science fiction movies, Westworld, Asimov's Laws of Robotics, robotics on land / air / sea / space, DARPA's Urban Challenge, self-driving cars, biped robots, exoskeletons, robotic surgeons, societal resistance to new technology, robots in space, robots in factories, robotic pets, exo-skeletons, robotic surgeons, reality surpasing science fiction, Star Trek communication vs. smart phones, chess playing, "IBM Watson" Jeopardy AI, Google "Alpha Go", robotic household appliances, cloaking devices, technological singularity, gray goo, law of accelerating returns, augmented humans, course summary: concepts / techniques / ideas / proofs, Occam's razor, "Ask Me Anything" session
This lecture is part of a course on the Theory of Computation, by Professor Gabriel Robins at the University of Virginia (CS3102 Spring 2018), with PowerPoint slides at http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~robins/cs3102 and other related videos at http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~robins/videos.html
Specific topics covered in this lecture: the Turing test (continued), who/what can pass the Turing test?, Frankenstein stories, sentient beings from science fiction movies, Westworld, Asimov's Laws of Robotics, robotics on land / air / sea / space, DARPA's Urban Challenge, self-driving cars, biped robots, exoskeletons, robotic surgeons, societal resistance to new technology, robots in space, robots in factories, robotic pets, exo-skeletons, robotic surgeons, reality surpasing science fiction, Star Trek communication vs. smart phones, chess playing, "IBM Watson" Jeopardy AI, Google "Alpha Go", robotic household appliances, cloaking devices, technological singularity, gray goo, law of accelerating returns, augmented humans, course summary: concepts / techniques / ideas / proofs, Occam's razor, "Ask Me Anything" session




