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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 (CS6160 Spring 2018), with PowerPoint slides at http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~robins/cs6160/ and other related videos at http://www.cs.virginia.edu/robins/videos.html
Specific topics covered in this lecture: the Turing Test, review of autonomous vehicles on road / air / sea / space, automation in factories and homes, pet robots, wearable robots, reality surpassing science fiction, iPhone as supercomputer, chess playing, "IBM Watson" Jeopardy champion, Google "Alpha Go", self-driving cars in films, drones, robo-surgeons, cloaking devices, narrowing gap between science fiction and reality, technological singularity, "virtuous cycles", "gray goo" phenomena, law of accelerating returns, lots of "Moore's Laws", augmented humans, Singularity Summit, course summary: from abbacus to iPhones in 2300 years, 400+ concepts / techniques / ideas / proofs, Dedekind cuts, Occam's razor, flip side to every technology, ethics of engineering / science, 3D printing, what's depicted on currencies of the world
This lecture is part of a course on the Theory of Computation, by Professor Gabriel Robins at the University of Virginia (CS6160 Spring 2018), with PowerPoint slides at http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~robins/cs6160/ and other related videos at http://www.cs.virginia.edu/robins/videos.html
Specific topics covered in this lecture: the Turing Test, review of autonomous vehicles on road / air / sea / space, automation in factories and homes, pet robots, wearable robots, reality surpassing science fiction, iPhone as supercomputer, chess playing, "IBM Watson" Jeopardy champion, Google "Alpha Go", self-driving cars in films, drones, robo-surgeons, cloaking devices, narrowing gap between science fiction and reality, technological singularity, "virtuous cycles", "gray goo" phenomena, law of accelerating returns, lots of "Moore's Laws", augmented humans, Singularity Summit, course summary: from abbacus to iPhones in 2300 years, 400+ concepts / techniques / ideas / proofs, Dedekind cuts, Occam's razor, flip side to every technology, ethics of engineering / science, 3D printing, what's depicted on currencies of the world
