Barber, who is working on machine learning and applications of probability in information processing, will discuss biological inspirations for computing and how this can help humans to interact with machines in his talk ‘How to engineer intelligence’.
He will discuss the challenges of getting computers to process information in ways that enable interaction with humans to be more natural. This to an extent is already taking place with smartphones equipped with speech recognition software/ programming such as Siri.
According to Barber, the world expects to be able to interact naturally with machines by expecting them to understand what we say and move naturally in our environment.
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‘How to engineer intelligence’, 20 March, 6pm – 7pm. For more info please visit www.cam.ac.uk/sciencefestival
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