[LINK] FW: [UNSW.ai Invited Talk] 'The Re-Conception of AI and Robotics'

[Roger Clarke]

*From:    *UNSW AI Institute Admin <ai.admin at unsw.edu.au>
*Subject: *[UNSW.ai Invited Talk] The Re-Conception of AI and Robotics

Dear colleague,

Please join us for an invited talk by Professor Roger Clarke from School 
of Law, Society & Criminology, UNSW.

Title:  *The Long Overdue Re-Conception of AI and Robotics*

When:   *Tuesday 29th August 2023 | 11:30am – 12:30pm*

Venue:  Innovation Central Sydney (ICS)
          *basement level of CSE Building K17, UNSW Sydney* or *online*.

*Registration Required*, at https://rogerclarke.eventbrite.com.au

For onsite participants, we will provide drinks and lunch from 12:30pm.

*Use the below Zoom webinar link to attend online*.
*It may require an Eventbrite account or registration of email-address*.

https://unsw.zoom.us/j/84453537747

The Slide-Set is at http://www.rogerclarke.com/EC/AITS-K.pdf

UNSW AI Institute
Level 3, CSE Building K17
UNSW Sydney
Kensington NSW 2052, Australia
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Tel:+61 (02) 9348 1602 <tel:+61293481602>


*Abstract*:

Increased public concern about Artificial Intelligence is a stimulus for 
fixing a longstanding problem with the orientation of the field.

With 8 billion people, the world doesn't need to build artefacts that 
think like people.  We want artefacts that think in a way *usefully* 
*different* from people.  So the focus needs to be on 'Complementary 
Artefact Intelligence' (CAI), and on the application of Decision Support 
Systems (DSS) thinking, in order to combine Human and CA intelligence 
into 'Augmented Intelligence'.

But even that adaptation isn't enough.  Thinking uses data to generate 
inferences, and data and inferences are then used for decision-making, 
which lays the foundation for action.  So we need to integrate 
intelligence with action in the real world.

Humans use effectors, and we make artefacts active by endowing them with 
actuators.  In this area as well, the primary need is for capabilities 
different from those of humans.  Along with Augmented Intelligence, we 
need the focus of robotics to be on producing 'Complementary Artefact 
Capability' that is devised in order to be combined with human 
capability into 'Augmented Capability'.

Re-orientation from 'AI' to CAI, and on to Augmented Intelligence and 
Capability, will enable research to avoid a great many misdirected 
designs, undesirable side-effects, negative public reactions and 'AI 
winters'.  It can deliver techniques that serve real-world needs and 
amplify humankind’s capacity for responsible innovation.

Clarke R. (2023)  'The Re-Conception of AI: Beyond Artificial, and 
Beyond Intelligence'  IEEE Trans. Techno. & Soc. 4, 1 (March 2023)24-33, 
PrePrint at https://rogerclarke.com/EC/AITS.html

*Bio*:

Roger Clarke is an independent consultant in the strategic and policy 
implications of disruptive information technologies, with a particular 
focus on eBusiness, information infrastructure, and dataveillance and 
privacy.

He is a longstanding Visiting Professor in Computer Science at the ANU, 
and in the Allens Hub for Technology, Law and Innovation in UNSW Law. He 
has also held Visiting Professorships at the Universities of Hong Kong, 
Bern and Linz.  He holds Honours and Masters degrees in Commerce (IS) 
from UNSW, and a PhD from the ANU.  He was made a Fellow of the 
Australian Computer Society (FACS) in 1986, and of the international 
Association for Information Systems (FAIS) in 2012.

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Roger Clarke                            mailto:Roger.Clarke at xamax.com.au
T: +61 2 6288 6916   http://www.xamax.com.au  http://www.rogerclarke.com

Xamax Consultancy Pty Ltd      78 Sidaway St, Chapman ACT 2611 AUSTRALIA
Visiting Professor in the Faculty of Law            University of N.S.W.
Visiting Professor in Computer Science    Australian National University

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