In the article below, Ashok Goel discusses the question: will AI take over the world? He argues that intelligence, ethics and values, emotions and feelings, society and culture, all go together: there is little prospect for human-level or superhuman intelligence in a society or a species without correspondingly high-level ethics,…
The Launch of the Online Knowledge-Based AI Course
Last Monday (August 18, 2014) we released our online course on Knowledge-Based AI through Udacity as part of the Georgia Tech OMS in CS program. David Joyner, a learning scientist, is the course developer and TA for the course, and I am the course creator and instructor. The course is…
What’s the hardest thing you’ve ever learned to do?
Quick: what’s the hardest thing you’ve ever learned to do? I’ll speculate that for many of you, the answer was something that you learned in college or in your career: perhaps fully solving advanced differential equations or articulating the complex nuances of deconstructionist literary analysis. For others, it may…
Welcome to the DILab blog!
Welcome to the DILab blog. This is a blog for members of Georgia Institute of Technology’s Design & Intelligence Laboratory to share their musings as “public intellectuals.” As its name suggests, DILab conducts research at the union of design and intelligence, in the sense of designing intelligent systems as well…