Artificial Intelligence - How Smart?

Some of us look forward to the time when our housework is done by a homebot while we lie in the sun and read a book. While that might be a few years away, right now robots are working on real life disasters. Just this week, robots were involved in the raids on suspected terrorists and a robot rescued a parrot when a Sydney apartment building collapsed. We speak to two researchers from the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to find out about the current possibilities and limits of AI.

Guests in this story:

Dr Debbie Richards
Knowledge Based Systems
Macquarie University

Dr Mark Peters
University of New South Wales

Story Producer and Researcher:

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