Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences at the Department for Continuing Education

Oxford University

A collection of audio and video resources of lectures, seminars and presentations from the Department's mathematical, physical and life sciences programmes.

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Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences at the Department for Continuing Education

Episodes (4)

Oct 18, 2012 Can robots be made creative enough to invent their own language?
Nov 25, 2010 Mathematics in the real world
Nov 30, 2009 Mathematics: Navigating Nature's Dark Labyrinth

Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences at the Department for Continuing Education

Oct 18, 2012
1 hours
592 MB

Luc Steels delivers the 2012 Simonyi lecture and asks can machines be creative enough to invent their own language? Professor Steels talks about some of his recent breakthrough experiments which have seen robots programmed to play language games and come up with novel concepts, words and meanings. He discusses how this triggers a process of cultural evolution that leads to more complex forms of language and deliberate on what this tells us about the nature of our own intelligence and the future of artificial intelligence. Luc Steels is ICREA Research Professor at the Institut de Biologia Evolutiva (CSIC-UPF) in Barcelona and...

Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences at the Department for Continuing Education

Can robots be made creative enough to invent their own language?

Oxford University

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