Should We Fear or Welcome the Singularity? Nobel Week Dialogue 2015 – The Future of Intelligence
Should science and society welcome ‘the singularity’ – the idea of the hypothetical moment in time when artificial intelligence surpasses human intelligence?
Panelists: Harry Shum (Microsoft Research EVP of Tech), Max Tegmark (Cosmologist, MIT) Stuart Russell (Prof. of Computer Science, UC Berkeley) and Ray Kurzweil (Futurist, Google Director of Engineering). Moderator: Margaret Boden (Prof. of Cognitive Science, Uni. of Sussex).
For more information on the Nobel Week Dialogue, visit http://www.nobelweekdialogue.org.
This debate is from the 2015 edition of the meeting, held in Gothenburg, Sweden on 9 Dec.
Should science and society welcome ‘the singularity’ – the idea of the hypothetical moment in time when artificial intelligence surpasses human intelligence?
Panelists: Harry Shum (Microsoft Research EVP of Tech), Max Tegmark (Cosmologist, MIT) Stuart Russell (Prof. of Computer Science, UC Berkeley) and Ray Kurzweil (Futurist, Google Director of Engineering). Moderator: Margaret Boden (Prof. of Cognitive Science, Uni. of Sussex).
For more information on the Nobel Week Dialogue, visit http://www.nobelweekdialogue.org.
This debate is from the 2015 edition of the meeting, held in Gothenburg, Sweden on 9 Dec.
