Subject:
Cognitive Science guest perfomance
Date:
Wed, 31 Oct 2001 11:01:21 -0500
From:
Diane Ober <dwo4q@virginia.edu>
This Monday, November 5th, at 5pm in Maury 209, the Cognitive Science Society and the Arts
& Sciences
Council present, "My Dinner with Android", a play/performance by Tom Sgouros and his robot
Judy. It will be
an entertaining and thought-provoking show of interest to everyone, particularly cognitive
scientists, philosophers,
computer scientists, musicians, sociologists, etc. The play has been highly acclaimed by
critics and leading
cognitive scientists around the country. I invite you to join us (and bring your friends)
for an hour of entertainment
that you won't forget. It will also be an excellent opportunity for interaction between
students and faculty of
different departments. Below is a more detailed description of the show:
"The central question is: if you build a robot smart enough to do the dishes, will it also
be smart enough to find
them boring?"
A lot of claims have been made lately about the intelligence of computers. Some
researchers say that computers
will eventually attain super-human intelligence. Others call these claims... um,
poppycock. Oddly, in the search
for the truth of the matter, both camps have overlooked an obvious strategy: interviewing
a computer and asking
its opinion. Intrepid researcher Sgouros has leapt into this lacuna, and presents some
preliminary findings in a
new not-quite-solo show. (You could call it "My Dinner with Android.")
For more info on the show, check out:
http://www.as220.org/~tomfool/
Thank you,
Evan Rapoport
Cognitive Science Society President
Diane Ober
Cognitive Science Program Coordinator
Gilmer Hall B007, P.O.Box 400400
dwo4q@virginia.edu
Webpage:http://www.virginia.edu/~cogsci
Office: (434) 982-3019
Fax: (434) 982-4694
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