CBMM10 - Charles Isbell
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CHARLES ISBELL: I think those of us of a certain age got into artificial intelligence because of all of the deep philosophical questions. What does it mean to be intelligent? Can we build intelligence? If we build machines that act like humans, what does it say about who we are? I mean, at least that's what got me excited about it.
What makes me excited about CBMM is that it took those vague questions that I had and that so many of us had that got us interested in the science fiction of AI and turned it into real science, really trying to understand what neuroscience, what engineering, what biology can tell us about how intelligence works, how our mind works, how our brains work, and how those things come together. And that's what makes that such an amazing center. And they've been able to do such great work.
I think the symposium that's coming up, the 10th anniversary of CBMM, is going to be amazing because it focuses on the future. What does it mean? What can we do to build the sort of intelligence that we all see coming?
What can we do to understand what it has-- what it means to build these machines and what it says about us as humans and what it means for us to be intelligent? And I think understanding that, given that the future is coming, probably pretty important, and it's certainly going to be fun.
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