Cranfield - Making the Artificial Intelligent

Making the Artificial Intelligent So where to start? Is it even possible to go from wetware to... "No diet will remove all the fat from your body because the brain is entirely fat. Brain imaging techniques (the new phrenology?!) Pretending we know more than we do is not the way forward... ...especially at high speed This is our chance to change what it means to be human Adjacent Possible "Chance favours only the prepared mind" Between 30% and 50% of all scientific discoveries are accidental in some sense sagacious "Scientists are not passive recipients of the unexpected; rather, they actively create the conditions for discovering the unexpected" Kevin Dunbar and Jonathan Fugelsang "premature mystery reduction" Is it any wonder people are worried? Technology and AI have the potential to become an intimate part of our brains, bodies and lives and that's why I call it... how we think about technology ...and so nurture two of the factors that make humans intelligent Empathy frame I believe we can Re Curiosity Narrowcasting "My primary goal of hacking was the intellectual curiosity, the seduction of adventure" Kevin Mitnick By extending our empathy and developing our curiosity we will be more.... Rather than AI being feared, it may be something that could change the fundamental nature of what it is to be human; akin to Prometheus taking fire from the gods.