Nathan Lepora (Professor of Robotics & AI at the University of Bristol) will be delivering a University of Bath Physics Colloquium on Friday 9 June at 13:15 in 8W 3.13.
Abstract
Over the last decade, AI has made huge advances in interpreting complex information learnt from lots of data. First, this transformed image processing, e.g. recognizing photos, then it transformed speech/language processing, e.g. Siri/Alexa, and more recently it has transformed text generation, e.g. ChatGPT. However, to affect the real world directly, the AI needs to be embodied in robots. In this talk, I describe how this may be the next major advance in AI and how it could transform future robotics.
Bio
Nathan did a PhD in Theoretical Physics in DAMTP and a postdoc with Tom Kibble at Imperial College. After a period of working as a writer, he changed career to Computational Neuroscience and then Robotics.
