Ben Kuipers speaking at the 2011 Winter Intelligence Conference at Oxford University, hosted by the Future of Humanity Institute

Imagine having to analyze millions of gigabytes of financial data, find the important information and then make a recommendation that optimizes the use of your money. That is what the PILL Method Financial Robot© does for our clients. Thank you Watson for paving the way! Artificial Intelligence has come to consumer and business finance. The PILL Method Trust offers its clients the only Artificially Intelligent Financial Robot© in the world!

What Is Watson?

Michael P. Perrone, Manager, Multicore Computing, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center

Jurgen Schmidthuber speaking at the 2011 Winter Intelligence Conference at Oxford University, hosted by the Future of Humanity Institute

Professor Kevin Warwick of Reading University returns to Coventry to deliver the 2011 Coventry University Christmas lecture.

In the lecture, Professor Warwick discusses his high-profile fascinating work with cybernetics and artificial intelligence.

Robert Trappl is professor and head of the Institute of Medical Cybernetics and Artificial Intelligence, Center for Brain Research, Medical University of Vienna, Austria. He is head of the Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence in Vienna, which was founded in 1984. He holds a PhD in psychology (minor: astronomy), a diploma in sociology (Institute for Advanced Studies, Vienna), and is engineer for electrical engineering. Mr.

Artificial Ethical Intelligence (AEI) is to ethical intelligence what AI is to general intelligence. As with AI proper, the field of AEI has many ramifications, and presents a number of challenges. It is also of growing urgency, as cognitive and robotic agent systems become increasingly autonomous, and are designed to function in increasingly open and unstructured environments.

In an historic event in February 2011, IBM's Watson computer competed on Jeopardy! against the TV quiz show's two biggest all-time champions. Watson is a computer running software called Deep QA, developed by IBM Research. While the grand challenge driving the project was to win on Jeopardy!, the broader goal of Watson was to create a new generation of technology that can find answers in unstructured data more effectively than standard search technology.

Join leading researchers Dr. Eric Horvitz of Microsoft Research and Dr. Peter Norvig of Google for an intriguing discussion about the past, present, and future of artificial intelligence, moderated by KQED's Tim Olson. We are extremely fortunate to have Eric and Peter on our stage -- they've known each other for several years, and can discuss everything from machine learning to data-driven science, the world of perception, speech recognition, robotics, self-driving cars, and even a computer called Watson. A Wonder Dialog indeed!

Computers are becoming more powerful at an ever-increasing rate, but will they ever become conscious? Artificial intelligence guru Ray Kurzweil thinks so and explains how we will "download" our software (our minds) and "upgrade" our hardware (our bodies) to become immortal -- before the dawn of the 22nd century. In this debate with his critics, including several Discovery Institute Fellows, Kurzweil defends his views and sets the stage for the central question: "What does it mean to be human?"