{"id":16954,"date":"2015-09-06T08:46:31","date_gmt":"2015-09-06T15:46:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/the-holy-grail-machine-learning-extreme-robotics"},"modified":"2015-09-06T08:46:31","modified_gmt":"2015-09-06T15:46:31","slug":"the-holy-grail-machine-learning-extreme-robotics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/the-holy-grail-machine-learning-extreme-robotics","title":{"rendered":"The Holy Grail: Machine Learning + Extreme Robotics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two experts on robotics and machine learning will reveal breakthrough developments in humanlike robots and machine learning at the annual SXSW conference in Austin next March, in a proposed* panel called \u201cThe Holy Grail: Machine Learning + Extreme Robotics.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Participants will interact with Hanson Robotics\u2019 forthcoming state-of-the-art female Sophia robot as a participant on the panel as she spontaneously tracks human faces, listens to speech, and generates a natural-language response while participating in dialogue about the potential of genius machines.<\/p>\n<p>This conversation on the future of advanced robotics combined with machine learning and cognitive science will feature visionary Hanson Robotics founder\/CEO David Hanson and Microsoft executive Jim Kankanias, who heads Program Management for Information Management and Machine Learning in the Cloud + Enterprise Division at Microsoft. The panel will be moderated by Hanson Robotics consultant Eric Shuss.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kurzweilai.net\/the-holy-grail-machine-learning-extreme-robotics\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two experts on robotics and machine learning will reveal breakthrough developments in humanlike robots and machine learning at the annual SXSW conference in Austin next March, in a proposed* panel called \u201cThe Holy Grail: Machine Learning + Extreme Robotics.\u201d Participants will interact with Hanson Robotics\u2019 forthcoming state-of-the-art female Sophia robot as a participant on the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":362,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/362"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16954\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}