This class takes an engineering approach to exploring possible research paths toward building human-level intelligence. The lectures will introduce our current understanding of computational intelligence and ways in which strong AI could possibly be achieved, with insights from deep learning, reinforcement learning, computational neuroscience, robotics, cognitive modeling, psychology, and more. Additional topics will include AI safety and ethics. Projects will seek to build intuition about the limitations of state-of-the-art machine learning approaches and how those limitations may be overcome. The course will include several guest talks. Listeners are welcome.
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2018 Schedule of Lectures and Talks Most (but not all) lectures and talks will be at 7pm in Room 54-100. See below for exact time and location.
Lecture Mon, Jan 22, 7pm Room 54-100 Artificial General Intelligence
Guest Talk Tue, Jan 23, 7pm Room 54-100 Josh Tenenbaum: Computational Cognitive Science Professor, MIT
Guest Talk Wed, Jan 24, 1pm Room 10-250 Ray Kurzweil: How to Create a Mind Google
Guest Talk Thu, Jan 25, 7pm Room 54-100 Lisa Feldman Barrett: Emotion Creation Northeastern University
Guest Talk Fri, Jan 26, 7pm Room 54-100 Nate Derbinsky: Cognitive Modeling Northeastern University
Guest Talk Mon, Jan 29, 1pm Room 26-100 Andrej Karpathy: Deep Learning Director of AI, Tesla Previously: OpenAI, Stanford University
Lecture Tue, Jan 20, 7pm Room 54-100 Turing Test and Beyond [ Slides ] - [ Lecture Video ] (Available Soon)
Guest Talk Wed, Jan 31, 7pm Room 54-100 Mark Reibert: Robotics CEO, Boston Dynamics Previously: MIT
Guest Talk Thu, Feb 1, 7pm Room 54-100 Ilya Sutskever: Deep Reinforcement Learning Co-founder, OpenAI Previously: Google Brain, Stanford, U of Toronto
Lecture Mon, Jan 22, 7pm Room 54-100 Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence [ Slides ] - [ Lecture Video ] (Available Soon)