Ex Machina (UK 2015, OmU): Science Fiction in a Reality CheckEx Machina (UK 2015), OmU
Commentary by Prof. Dr. Wolfram Burgard
In this 2015 Academy Award winning, sci-fi chamber play, a software developer tests an alluring female robot for its human likeness and finds himself positioned between the robot and its inventor. Prof. Dr. Wolfram Burgard will explain the likelihood of an android of those characteristics being developed. He will explain the current state of the art in robotics and the problems with the popular notion of artificial intelligence.
How much science is there in science fiction films? Neurotechnology, Robotics and Artificial Intelligence: We invite you to watch movies and series on these topics and to discuss with scientists. Five researchers of the Cluster of Excellence BrainLinks-BrainTools of the University of Freiburg rise to the challenge. In BrainLinks-BrainTools, scientists work on technical devices communicating with the brain in order to treat neurological diseases. To aim this goal, they also work on robots and learning algorithms. The research on neurotechnologies raises hopes and anxieties at the same time. These concerns and dreams are openly addressed in the science fiction genre. On the evenings of our film event, we discuss the scientific and ethical questions that are raised by the movies shown.
http://www.brainlinks-braintools.uni-freiburg.de/index.php?id=238&L=1
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