The Simonyi Professorship

Professor Steels will talk 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 will discuss 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

arti!cial intelligence.

 

Luc Steels is ICREA Research Professor at the Institut de Biologia Evolutiva (CSIC-UPF) in Barcelona and Director of the Sony Computer Science Laboratory in Paris.