Our own brain is perhaps the most magical element we know. We are trying to build that brain. But in order to do that, you need to know exactly how they work. How do we create robots that truly understand people's feelings? How do we combine the signals of all our senses into one experience? How is the world going to change through the new levels of Artificial Intelligence?
Original title: The illusionist
Robot-emotion-illusionist Pascale Fung believes that for a beautiful future, it's essential that machines and people understand each other. Therefore, she programs robots with strong empathic ability. Robots with heart and soul. She is pioneering a whole new field of social robotics.
Charles Spence is an experimental psychologist. He investigates how our senses (light, sound, smell, taste, touch) work together to form one experience that we feel as “reality”. But if you know how it works, that experience is easy to manipulate, changing our perception of things like taste or pain.
Artificial intelligence improver Yoshua Bengio is now one of the top researchers in artificial intelligence and deep learning. Bengio thinks deeply about the way the human brain works, and how a similar approach can be used to make computers smarter.
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Originally broadcasted by VPRO in 2017.
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Credits:
Presented by: Robbert Dijkgraaf
Editor in chief and script: Rob van Hattum
Direction & Editor: Kees Brouwer, Gijs Swantee, Sander Cijsouw
Research: Frederique Melman, Remy van den Brand, Anna Gimbrere, Wiesje Kuijpers, Gerko Wessel
Production: Madeleine Somer, Jordy van Langen (stage), May-Linn Tsiang (stage)
Cross Media Manager: Eef Grob
Redaction: Elmar Veerman, Marijn van der Waa, Bram van Dijk (stage), Imani van Oosterhout (stage), Yfke van der Ploeg (stage)
Media Manager & Assistant: Olivier Schuringa, Pardis Faqiri (stage)
Camera: Chris Blokhuis, Hans Bouma, Martijn Cousijn, Jacko van ’t Hof, Job Kraaijeveld, Sjoerd Vogel, Karsten Hohmann
Sound: Daan Arens, Dennis Kersten, Jillis Schriel, Mark Witte,Gregor Koppenburg, Bidisha Das, Pedro Rodriques da Silva
Translation: Lei Fang, Sasja Yakovleva, Alexandra de Vries
Script editing: Caroline Ligthart
Editing: Jeroen van den Berk, Sander Cijsouw, Tim van der Maden, Olivier van der Zee
Design: Jurriaan Schalken
Composition: Jos Jansen (Big Orange)
International partners and Education: Fred Mulder
In cooperation with: Tijl van Huijkelom
English, French and Spanish subtitles: Ericsson.
French and Spanish subtitles are co-funded by European Union.
