Prof Alan Winfield - the thinking robot - 6th February 2019
Channel: Royal Philosophical Society of Glasgow
Date: 07/02/2019

Robots, robotics, robot ethics, Prof Alan Winfield, Prof Winfield, Royal Philosophical Society of Glasgow


Press headlines frequently refer to robots that think like humans, or even have feelings, but is there any basis of truth in such headlines, or are they simply sensationalist hype? Computer scientist EW Dijkstra famously wrote, “the question of whether machines can think is about as relevant as the question of whether submarines can swim”, but the question of robot thought is one that cannot so easily be dismissed. In this talk I will discuss the question “how intelligent are present day intelligent robots?”; propose four distinct kinds of intelligence, and describe recent work to design robots with simple artificial theory of mind