Mirrors on Ourselves: Attempts to Build Artificial People

Elaine Rich

Lecture Slides

· Introduction

· Early Legends and Stories

· Mechanical Automata

· Can a Machine Think?

· Pygmalion

· Research at UT

· Computers Are the Most Powerful Tools We’ve Ever Built

· Foundations of Artificial Intelligence

· Chess, the Turk, and Other Games

· Common Sense Reasoning

· Rhetoric and Writing

· Language and Communication

· Robots

· The Day the Earth Stood Still

· What Makes Us Us?

· Can We Do It?

· Should We Do It?