AI Forward Forum: Beyond Disciplinary Borders
What is necessary to build socially aware machines that can interact with humans naturally? Despite recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI), this is still one of the most difficult questions to answer. Interestingly, while this is also the question that is often posed to computer scientists, it is seldom addressed to specialists in other fields.
Are you a cultural anthropologist, a sociologist, a biologist, an artist, you name it... willing to think together and think afresh about how truly intelligent systems can be achieved? Then, join this free online event.
The event will kick-start a series of sessions that will enable individuals with diverse expertise (researchers, practitioners, developers) to join in a discussion about the underpinnings for the development of intelligent systems. For each session, we will host a prominent speaker whose talk will be followed by a moderated discussion. We are delighted to have Professor Cecilia Heyes, cognitive scientist from the University of Oxford, and the author of “Cognitive Gadgets: The Cultural Evolution of Thinking”, as our first speaker.
The ultimate goal of AI Forward Forum is to form a network of people interested in creating a roadmap for the development of machines that are social, context-aware, and able to generalize.
AI Forward Forum
AI Forward Forum is being set up by Julija Vaitonytė, a PhD Candidate at the Department of Cognitive Science & Artificial Intelligence. Julija conducts research on a multidisciplinary project that seeks to build a virtual agent, an entity whose visual appearance and behavior reinforce the belief that it is social.