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March 5th at 4pm
Locy Hall, Room 111
1850 Campus Drive

Panelists: Jim Hodge (WCAS), Diego Klabjan (McCormick School of Engineering), and Sylvester Johnson (WCAS)

“Will Intelligent Machines Become Human?: Artificial Intelligence, Human-Machine Relations, and the Digital Humanities”

For many years, science fiction has featured robots that think and reason as people do—films such as Centennial Man, I Robot, and more recently Spike Jonez’s Her are just a few examples. But science is quickly closing the gap between sci-fi and reality. Today, machines are learning how to learn, studying oncology alongside humans, serving as companions for the elderly, and even operating as self-driving cars. Are these machines really thinking? Will this technology eventually humanize machines?

Join us for a discussion about intelligent machines and the idea of the human. Panelists will explain the use of IBM’s Watson cognitive computing at Northwestern University, the advent of “personable” machines that are designed to be interactive, and the many challenges and questions that are emerging as a result of machines that are engineered for cognition and learning.

This event is free and open to the public.