Why Do Robots Need Common Sense?

Why is it so hard to create a machine that can think like a 2-year old child, yet that same machine can beat a grand master in chess?

Dr Subramanian Ramamoorthy will take the audience from the the lab floor and into the future where scientists are exploring consciousness, learning and how thinking creates life.

Date: 
Saturday, 3 February, 2018 - 13:30
Speaker: 
Dr Subramanian Ramamoorthy
Affiliation: 
Edinburgh Centre for Robotics
Location: 
Big Bang Weekend - Main Hall, County Buildings, Wigtown