Artificial Intelligence

Dartmouth College is celebrating 50 years of Artificial Intelligence this week with a special conference that takes a look forward and a look back at the field. We'll find out how AI has evolved since its inception and how far scientists have come to creating the technological brain that's been depicted in science fiction for decades. We'll also look at the philosophical and ethical questions that go along with creating machines that emulate the human mind.

Our guest are:

Eugene Charniak, professor of Computer Science at Brown University. Charniak's expertise is in language development, and he's presenting a speech at the conference entitled "Why Natural Language Processing is Now Statistical Natural Language Processing."

James H. Moor, professor of Philosophy at Dartmouth. He's the conference's main organizer.