Web Directions Summit 2017

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Genevieve Bell

Artificial Intelligence: Making a Human Connection

Genevieve Bell Professor ANU

We've been talking about robots and artificial intelligence forever, or so it sometimes seems. Images of smart machinery inhabited our thinking and our literary and cultural imaginations long before technology made such objects possible. It is tempting to keep separate the art and science of the robot and the artificial intelligence that underpins it. However, there are reasons to thread them back together. After all, the AI of our imagination is the AI we have built.

Genevieve Bell explores the meaning of “intelligence” within the context of machines, and its cultural impact on humans and their relationships. Genevieve interrogates AI not just as a technical agenda but as a cultural category, in order to understand the ways in which the story of AI is connected to the history of human culture.

Genevieve Bell

Genevieve Bell is an Australian anthropologist best known for her work at the intersection of cultural practice and technology development. Bell is currently a Professor at the Australian National University[1] and a Senior Fellow at Intel, where she was formerly a Vice President directing the company's Corporate Sensing & Insights group. She is widely published, and holds 13 patents.

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