Optimizing for coordination with people

1305 Newell Simon Hall

https://youtu.be/AQ-w5o2oGI8 Abstract: From autonomous cars to quadrotors to mobile manipulators, robots need to co-exist and even collaborate with humans. In this talk, we will explore how our formalism for decision making needs to change to account for this interaction, and dig our heels into the subtleties of modeling human behavior -- sometimes strategic, often irrational, [...]

AI and Humanity : Technology Is Driving the Future, but Who Is Steering?

Simmons Auditorium A Tepper Building

The release of the archive coincides with the publication next month by MIT Press of the textbook "AI and Humanity." Nourbakhsh and Keating, assistant dean for educational initiatives in the Dietrich College, wrote it for their course, which is part of Dietrich's Grand Challenge Seminar series for first-year students. The book and the archive will be [...]