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Oct 2012
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Can robots be made creative enough to in...

OXFORD UNIVERSITY
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Luc Steels delivers the 2012 Simonyi lecture and asks can machines be creative enough to invent their own language? Professor Steels talks about some of his recent breakthrough experiments which have seen robots programmed to play language games and come up with novel concepts, words and meanings. He discusses how this triggers a process of cultural evolutio ... Show More
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