Sessions at SXSW Interactive 2012 about Artificial Intelligence on Tuesday 13th March

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• Human Language Technology and Where It's Headed

  by Jason Baldridge and Lillian Lee

  Language is the holy grail of artificial intelligence. When we imagine sharing a world with smart machines, we don't think about logic, or problem solving, or winning at chess. We hear HAL-9000 declining to open the pod bay doors, and the Terminator saying he'll be baaack. Researchers have been working on building computers we can talk to for 60 years; in the 1990s, Bill Gates predicted that speech would soon be “a primary way of interacting with the machine”. So why aren't we talking to our computers yet ....Or are we? Thanks to new developments in human language technology (also known as "natural language processing") and text analytics, computers are analyzing everything from e-mail and tweets to clinical records and and speed-date conversations. How does the technology work, when does it work well (and when not), what's it doing for us, and where is it headed?

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Language
  • Natural Language Processing

  At 9:30am to 10:30am, Tuesday 13th March

  In Salon K, Hilton Austin Downtown

  Coverage audio clip slide deck

• Wall-E or Terminator: Predicting the Rise of AI

  by Chris Robson, Daniel Wilson and William Hertling

  This fun and thought provoking session will look at fundamental issues about the rise of artificial intelligence (AI). When is human-level AI likely to emerge? When it does emerge will it be more likely to be friendly, hostile, or indifferent to humanity? What, if anything, can we do to influence these outcomes?Panelists will draw on their expert knowledge in the field as well as look at science fiction for inspiration.

  • Artificial Intelligence

  At 9:30am to 10:30am, Tuesday 13th March

  In Salon J, Hilton Austin Downtown

  Coverage audio clip