Past and future of Artificial Intelligence

What does define Artificial Intelligence? Are the researchers still looking for nature or human characteristics to the robots? If not, what are the main goals of AI research nowadays? And where is AI going to?

I had these questions in my mind when I arrived, Monday morning, in a quite empty MIT Museum. A drawing, made with green pencil in a white sheet on the table for children, caught my attention. It is so simple and so enlightening. The idea that robots will help people is behind these researches since the beginning, almost 60 years ago, and still is in the popular imaginary. More than that, we still expect for humanlike robots to be created and be part of our to facilitate our lives.

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2 thoughts on “Past and future of Artificial Intelligence

  1. Giovana, this is really beautiful! Perhaps you can give an introduction to Storehouse to the class at some point.

  2. this is gorgeous! What is Storehouse? You just sold me on spending more time on campus in these great labs. I really enjoyed this.

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