Can experiments with humanoid robots tell us something about us?
Luc Steels, University of Brussels (VUB AI Lab) and Sony Computer Science
Lab (Paris)
Date: Thursday 25 February 2010
Time: 5-7pm
Location: Room 137, Richard Hoggart Building, Goldsmiths, University of London
Language is a fluid, ever evolving system that is built up creatively and
socially coordinated whenever we speak. At the moment robotics and AI
technologies have become sufficiently advanced to investigate the enormously
complex processes that underlie this amazing capability. I will show several
examples of language game experiments with humanoid robots. These
experiments help us to understand fundamental issues related to the origins
of language and meaning and how symbol systems can become shared in a
population.
This is a free event - please reserve a place by emailing [log in to unmask]
http://www.gold.ac.uk/sociology/events/
Jane Offerman
Research Administrator (part-time)
Department of Sociology
Goldsmiths, University of London
New Cross, London SE14 6NW
www: www.goldsmiths.ac.uk/sociology/
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