Introduction: robotic AI, ethics & fiction

Video lecture by Prof. C. Torras (CSIC, UPC)

Author of "The Vestigial Heart: A novel of the robot age" (The MIT Press)

the novel our blockcourse is based on.

Title of the talk: Designing the perfect assistant: robotic AI, ethics & fiction

in the context of the B-debate event:

BARCELONA DECLARATION FOR THE PROPER DEVELOPMENT AND USAGE OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN EUROPE

Artificial intelligence (AI) is a collection of computational components to build systems that emulate functions carried out by the human brain. The field started in the mid-nineteen fifties and has since gone through cycles of promise, enthusiasm, criticism and doubt. At this moment we see a strong wave of enthusiastic adoption of AI in many areas of human activity.