How would you evaluate this conference? Fukuda: There are several similar conferences in other countries, and China also wanted to organize its own. I was invited as the Chair of the Advisory Committee of this new conference and helped to contact the robotic specialists, many of whom are my friends, such as MIT professor Rodney Brooks, who is one of the founders of the company iRobot, which is famous for its robotic vacuum cleaner Roomba. At last, we had more than 50 senior scientists in the first WRC.
WRC has been very successful in the past years. It makes it possible for Chinese people to know what is going on in the world within one week. There are forums, exhibitions and contests in the conference, both the scientists and the public can enjoy it. What are your major missions in this position? Fukuda: IEEE is a non-profit organization with members and 46 technical societies and councils, covering diverse fields including computer sciences, robotics, electronics, medical engineering and more.
Our aim is to advance technology for humanity. It will not be a real university, but virtual, consisting of a massive open online courses MOOC system. Many of our societies already have their own online courses and I want to assemble them into a more efficient and more user-friendly system. All of our courses will be open and free to anybody anywhere in the world. You do not need to pay anything unless you want a course certification for job or university applications.
We will start to prepare for it in , and build the system in Once the frame is built, this online university will naturally grow day by day. NSR: What are your personal plans in the coming five years? Fukuda: I have two major aims in the coming years.
And the second is to contribute more to IEEE. Both of the aims require a lot of communications with people. I need to communicate with my group members in Beijing.
I should listen carefully to their voices and make decisions. Fortunately, the communication technologies are highly developed now, so that I would be able to handle these jobs. Oxford University Press is a department of the University of Oxford.
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An AI robot painter that creates its own artwork video. So some of the robots that you're talking about — I mean I guess there's a distinction between just bots and robots — robots are what we see on sci-fi movies.
But then really kind of automated tasks that are happening in the background that we're actually already engaged with. Give us some examples. Most of the robots we have now, we don't really ever see — you know, this kind of robot is a giant arm that you know welds the door onto a car in a factory or it helps move packages around at Amazon.
The robots that I'm interested in are where we start actually giving them some human attributes. And there again is a big controversy over how far we should go with that, should we make robots like humans? There are people working on that but clearly we're already getting a little glimpse of this with Alexa and Siri, which seem kind of human maybe or have some aspects of that where you know we're talking to this machine, but that's where we are right now and that's what's fascinating because we're about to move into this era where questions of say morality and ethics, you know, how do we program these robots, if you will, or A.
Because those robots are going to reflect the personal preferences and ethics of the people who programmed them, right? Yeah, that's right. And you know we're already seeing this with social media.
You know social media was created as this kind of fun way to communicate with everyone and you know you'll find out about what happened to your sixth grade, that sixth grade little girl you were looking at, or little boy or whatever, and years later finding all of that out.
And it seemed kind of fun at first, but we're seeing how this is beginning to play out. And that partly has to do with how we as humans are programming social media and some of these other A. Is there a creep of this technology down into sort of younger and younger elements of society? I mean not just that teenagers get a smartphone pretty early in their lives now, but also you have a teddy bear bot, right.
What changes in our brain could be happening when a child thinks that that thing is, well, I guess real? They already exist at a product sort of crude level. It is robot toys that look like teddy bears. But in the future we were envisioning a robot literally raised your kids, it would teach your kids, it would keep them secure, all those different things that we would like for our children.
But we immediately got an issues about say, who would program this teddy bot? Would you have factory settings that the company set that made the robot? Would the government have certain parameters?
Would you program it to be lenient or strict? And you start getting into politics. I mean, you want to raise a baby or a child based on the parent's politics or somebody else's?
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