Could Artificial Intelligence Become a Threat to Mankind?
6:00pm - 8:00pm /
Wednesday 21st September 2016
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Will we ever build machines that we can say are intelligent?
Wednesday 21st September, 6.00pm
The City of Liverpool College
Stephen Hawking has recently stated that “the development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race.” This provoked a spirited reaction from computer scientists who were unable to reach a consensus on whether it would indeed be possible to build a machine that outperformed humanity to such an extent that we created a life-form that could make ourselves extinct.
In fact, while computers haven’t yet passed the Turing test, the existing test for intelligence, some argue that the test itself is insufficient to measure “true intelligence”. Put simply, we don’t know what intelligence really is.
There are therefore people who take very different stances in this debate. Some technologists are actively trying to create true artificial intelligence, while some technologists (even those doing the same research) believe that is impossible. Some scientists are trying to understand what it means to be conscious while religious leaders believe that such pursuit of a logical definition of the soul is elusive by design.
This is a timely and important debate that will be brought to life at this public event by the following speakers:
Dr Roger Phillips (Hon LLD, 2001), BBC Radio Merseyside
Professor Simon Maskell, University of Liverpool
Joanna Bryson, University of Bath
Sir Robin Saxby (Hon. D.Eng, 2000), former CEO and chairman of ARM Holdings
Keith Hitchman, River in the City
Wednesday 21st September, 6.00pm
The City of Liverpool College
Stephen Hawking has recently stated that “the development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race.” This provoked a spirited reaction from computer scientists who were unable to reach a consensus on whether it would indeed be possible to build a machine that outperformed humanity to such an extent that we created a life-form that could make ourselves extinct.
In fact, while computers haven’t yet passed the Turing test, the existing test for intelligence, some argue that the test itself is insufficient to measure “true intelligence”. Put simply, we don’t know what intelligence really is.
There are therefore people who take very different stances in this debate. Some technologists are actively trying to create true artificial intelligence, while some technologists (even those doing the same research) believe that is impossible. Some scientists are trying to understand what it means to be conscious while religious leaders believe that such pursuit of a logical definition of the soul is elusive by design.
This is a timely and important debate that will be brought to life at this public event by the following speakers:
Dr Roger Phillips (Hon LLD, 2001), BBC Radio Merseyside
Professor Simon Maskell, University of Liverpool
Joanna Bryson, University of Bath
Sir Robin Saxby (Hon. D.Eng, 2000), former CEO and chairman of ARM Holdings
Keith Hitchman, River in the City