From: Michael Anissimov (michael@acceleratingfuture.com)
Date: Mon Mar 22 2004 - 15:11:13 MST
Is anyone on SL4 planning to go to this lecture at Stanford tomorrow?
If so, could you please email me offlist? Thanks!
Michael Anissimov
Elias Sinderson wrote:
> Hopefully the following lecture will be of interest to list
> subscribers in the Bay Area.
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> Regards,
> Elias
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>> The Stanford Computer Forum invites you to attend this month's Emeritus
>> Lecture Series:
>>
>> John McCarthy, Emeritus Professor of Computer Science - Towards
>> human-level AI
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>> 4:15pm, Tuesday, March 23, 2004
>> TCSEQ Lecture Hall 200
>> Stanford University
>>
>> The event is open to the public. Please feel free to pass along to your
>> colleagues. Parking permits are not required on campus after 4:00 p.m.
>> For information on current and future talks, go to:
>> http://forum.stanford.edu/events/lecture/
>>
>> Abstract:
>> It is not surprising that reaching human-level AI has proved to be
>> difficult and progress has been slow---though there has been important
>> progress. The slowness and the demand to exploit what has been
>> discovered has led many to mistakenly redefine AI, sometimes in ways
>> that preclude human-level AI---by relegating to humans parts of the task
>> that human-level computer programs would have to do. In the terminology
>> of this paper, it amounts to settling for a bounded informatic situation
>> instead of the more general common sense informatic situation.
>>
>> Overcoming the "brittleness'' of present AI systems and reaching
>> human-level AI requires programs that deal with the common sense
>> informatic situation---in which the phenomena to be taken into account
>> in achieving a goal are not fixed in advance.
>>
>> We discuss reaching human-level AI, emphasizing logical AI and
>> especially emphasizing representation problems of information and of
>> reasoning. Ideas for reasoning in the common sense informatic situation
>> include nonmonotonic reasoning, approximate concepts, formalized
>> contexts, concepts as objects, and self-awareness.
>>
>> Biography:
>> John McCarthy received the B.S. in mathematics in 1948 from the Caltech
>> and the Ph.D. from Princeton in 1951. He has taught at Princeton,
>> Dartmouth, M.I.T. and Stanford. He has been Professor of Computer
>> Science at Stanford University since 1962 (emeritus 2001) and was
>> Director of the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory from 1965 to
>> 1980.
>>
>> He is one of the founders of artificial intelligence research, starting
>> in 1948. Since 1958 his work has emphasized epistemological problems,
>> i.e. the problem of what information and what modes of reasoning are
>> required for intelligent behavior. He originated the LISP programming
>> language for computing with symbolic expressions, was one of the first
>> to propose and design time-sharing computer systems, and pioneered in
>> using mathematical logic to prove the correctness of computer programs.
>> He has also written papers on the social opportunities coming from
>> computer and other technology. He originated the situation calculus, the
>> circumscription method of nonmonotonic reasoning, and the idea of
>> abstract syntax.
>>
>> He received the A.M. Turing award of the Association for Computing
>> Machinery in 1971. He received the first Research Excellence Award of
>> the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in 1985. He
>> received the Kyoto Prize in 1988 and the National Medal of Science in
>> 1990. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the
>> National Academy of Engineering and the National Academy of Sciences.
>>
>> His recent work includes formalization of non-monotonic reasoning
>> whereby people and computers draw conjectural conclusions by assuming
>> that complications are absent from a situation. His current work
>> involves the formalization of context in mathematical logic, the
>> elaboration tolerance of logical theories, theories of approximate
>> entities, a new version of situation calculus, and self-aware computer
>> systems.
>>
>> Human-level AI has always been McCarthy's main goal.
>>
>> His web site which his papers on computer science and also pages devoted
>> to showing the sustainability of human material progress.
>> Faculty Profile: http://forum.stanford.edu/profile/mccarthy.html
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Stanford Computer Forum
>> forumstaff@cs.stanford.edu
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