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Science Friday > Archives > 2002 >
April
> April 26, 2002:
Hour Two: Humans and their
Machines
Researchers at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab are working to create
robots as intelligent and sociable as humans. At the same time, medical
advances are making humans more robot-like, with mechanical hearts and
working artificial limbs. In this hour, we'll talk with the participants
of the First Utah Symposium
in Science and Literature about the relationship between humans
and machines--and just what it means to be human.
Cog examines a Slinky.
Photo courtesy Donna Coveney, MIT.
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Kismet and creator Cynthia Breazeal
Photo courtesy Donna Coveney, MIT.
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Guests:
Rodney Brooks
Author, "Flesh
and Machines: How Robots Will Change Us" (Pantheon, 2002.)
Chairman and CTO, iRobot
Corp.
Fujitsu Professor of Computer Science
Director, MIT
Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Anne Foerst, ThD
Professor, Theology and Computer Science
Director, NEXUS--The Religion & Science Dialogue Project
St. Bonaventure University
Olean, New York
Richard Powers
Author, "Gain,"
"Galatea
2.2," The
Gold Bug Variations," "Plowing
the Dark," "Prisoner's
Dilemma" and others
Swanlund Chair in English
University of Illinois
Champaign-Urbana, Illinois
Books/Articles Discussed:
Related Links:
Utah
Symposium in Science and Literature
Salon
Books | The Salon Interview: Richard Powers
The
Atlantic: Richard Powers Interview - 2000.06.28
iRobot
Corporation
MIT
Humanoid Robotics Group
Do
Androids Dream? M.I.T. Is Working on It
God
and Robots
This segment produced by: Karin Vergoth
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