Oct 5, 2016
Forget the robocalypse— ‘Homo connecticus’ may be what’s coming
Posted by Carse Peel in categories: entertainment, robotics/AI
This new species will coexist peacefully with humans, one Turing Award winner says…
Robots’ potential to take over the world is a commonly expressed fear in the world of AI, but at least one Turing Award winner doesn’t see it happening that way. Rather than replacing mankind, technology will create a new kind of human that will coexist with its predecessors while taking advantage of new tech-enabled tools.
So argued Raj Reddy, former founding director of Carnegie Mellon University’s Robotics Institute and 1994 winner of the Turing Award, at the Heidelberg Laureate Forum in Germany last week.
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