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SUMMARY:Of Machines and Men - Professor Peter Robinson\, University of Cam
 bridge
DTSTART:20210922T120000Z
DTEND:20210922T130000Z
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CONTACT:Dr Mark Leadbeater
DESCRIPTION:Abstract\nContinuing improvements in computer technology are a
 llowing machines to perform in ways that model human activity\, to the ext
 ent that many people now treat machines as if they were people. There is a
  discussion of machine rights\, moral machines\, and even spiritual machin
 es. Why is this? What is it about humans that causes them to endow mechani
 cal artefacts with personhood? Why\, indeed\, is there often an assumption
  that the machines will be malicious and turn on their human creators?\n \
 nThis talk will present some of the technology that allows machines to sim
 ulate human behaviour\, and identify the clear distinctions that can still
  be drawn between machines and people.\n\nBiography\nPeter Robinson is Pro
 fessor of Computer Technology at the University of Cambridge. He is intere
 sted in new technologies to enhance communication between computers and th
 eir users\, and new applications to exploit these technologies. Early work
  involved the use of video and paper as part of the user interface leading
  to augmented reality. More recently he has investigated the inference of 
 people's mental states from facial expressions\, vocal nuances\, body post
 ure and gesture\, and other physiological signals\, and also considered th
 e expression of emotions by robots and cartoon avatars. This has involved 
 considerations of what it means to be human in an age of increasingly huma
 n-like machines.\n\nTo register visit:\nhttps://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/85186972
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LOCATION:Online (registration required)
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