Can robots be sentient? Here's a video overview and demo of some of our lab's work on making self-aware robots: youtube.com/watch?v=3jbBEM…

A robot forms a mental model of its own body... youtube.com/watch?v=Q5uOJY…

What is self-awareness? It's simply the ability to imagine yourself in the future.

Intelligence comes in many forms. #GPT3 has the brain-size of a hedgehog’s. It can write poems that a hedgehog can’t, but a hedgehog can dig holes that GPT3 can’t. Writing poems may be as hard as digging holes.

If @RayKurzweil's trend continues, 2023 is projected to be the first year where top computing speed will surpass 100 GFLOPS/$. That's 100 billion calculations per second, for just one dollar of hardware. What are we going to do with this much computing power??

People are worried about what #ChatGPT and its future AI cousins will do to education. But if education is all about standing on the shoulders of giants, then this new wave of Generative AI tools are the ultimate giant shoulders to stand on.

I typed “basdfby” and the AI-driven spellchecker didn’t get that I meant to type “bureaucracy”. Isn’t it obvious?

Insights on AI that I shared with Columbia Business School: You can't "opt out" - Every business is going on the ride. The question is whether you drive it, or get dragged along. Best thing to do is understand how AI really works, and how to use to do good things youtube.com/watch?v=UnZkY0…

An interesting discussion on Automated Physics Discovery, ChatGPT, Future of AI, with P(David|Kipping) ∝ P(Kipping|David) P(David) on the #CoolWorlds podcast on youtube.com/watch?v=KT7gAY…

We creators should make a deliberate effort to TEACH future AI systems. There is much debate on whether and how academia should use generative AI to teach students, but the key overlooked question is how academia should TEACH future AI systems themselves. We can teach students

Using fairly simple AI, a sophomore student in my group was able to shatter a long-held belief in forensics, that different fingers of the same person have unmatchable fingerprints. What this really shows is that AI is making it easier to challenge long held scientific

My favorite AI-generated song about a robot losing power. Self-Awareness and Robotics summed up in one song entitled "Depletion": suno.com/song/19906cff-…