Interlinked. Machines and humans facing the 10101 century

Authors

  • Carme Torras Robotics Institute (CSIC-UPC, Spain).
  • Ramon López de Mántaras Artificial Intelligence Research Institute at the Spanish National Research Council (IIIA-CSIC, Bellaterra, Spain).

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https://doi.org/10.7203/metode.9.21078

Abstract

Robotics and artificial intelligence are two scientific research fields that receive considerable attention from the media and, consequently, from society. Unfortunately, many advances are reported to the general public in sensationalist (or even alarmist) terms, leading to false hopes or unjustified fears, and taking the focus from other key points. For instance, recent successes in artificial intelligence, amplified by the media, are the cause of a mistaken perception of this discipline’s state of the art. The reality is that artificial intelligence is still far from achieving many high-level cognitive skills; particularly, common sense reasoning.

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Author Biographies

Carme Torras, Robotics Institute (CSIC-UPC, Spain).

PhD in Computer Science and Research Professor at the Robotics Institute (CSIC-UPC, Spain), where she leads a research group in assistive and collaborative robotics. She is a believer in science fiction as a tool to promote ethics in robotics and new technologies. She wrote the novels  Enxarxats  (Males Herbes, 2017) and  La mutació sentimental  (Pagès Editors, 2008) which won the Pedrolo and Ictineu awards and was translated into English with the title  The vestigial heart  (MIT Press, 2018).

Ramon López de Mántaras, Artificial Intelligence Research Institute at the Spanish National Research Council (IIIA-CSIC, Bellaterra, Spain).

Research Professor and Director of the Artificial Intelligence Research Institute at the Spanish National Research Council (IIIA-CSIC, Bellaterra, Spain). He holds a PhD in Physics from the Paul Sabatier University in Toulouse, a Master’s Degree   in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley, and a PhD in Computer Science from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia. He is also a numerary member of the Institute of Catalan Studies. He currently researches reasoning by analogy, machine learning techniques for humanoid robots, and artificial intelligence applied to music, and has published around 300 scientific papers in these fields. In 2017, he published the popular science book  Inteligencia artificial  within the «Qué sabemos de» collection (Los Libros de la Catarata).

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Published

2021-06-16

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Torras, C., & López de Mántaras, R. (2021). Interlinked. Machines and humans facing the 10101 century. Metode Science Studies Journal, (9), 116–117. https://doi.org/10.7203/metode.9.21078
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The grounds of science (2019)

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Interlinked. Machines and humans facing the 10101 century

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