Robert Trappl is not amused. He was booked as a speaker, "and know S ', as I was called in invitation? As Doyen of Austrian artificial intelligence research. That sounds like I'm old! " Which is why he was thinking something. "I'm going to get a stick," says 78-year-old scientist and is amused by an imaginary walker. "With that I will hobble on stage, and when I am re" – in walking he suddenly jumps up, rips his arms up and turns in air by 180 degrees – "Well, y will look!"
Robert Trappl does not want to be Doyen of artificial intelligence research in Austria. But he is her best-known and most important representative, who is not tired of explaining why his life me should not be translated as "artificial Intelligence": "Intelligence means much more information processing. The Central Intelligence agency does not mean that y are so clever, "he says.
Since a few years since people talk to ir smartphones and travel with self-driving cars, artificial intelligence (AI) experiences a "crazy hype", as Trappl says. In previous year alone, according to consulting firm McKinsey, between 26 and 39 billion dollars were invested in AI.
In this country, TRAPPL is man who explains this hype. Discussions, talks, interviews, "It's always something," he says. Only day before he sat in office of Non-university Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence, which he founded in Vienna's city centre, until two o'clock at night. How does he do that? "A lot of meat, lots of chocolate, no fruit, no vegetables," he says, and looks hilariously through red glasses with round version, which has become his trademark.
Already 1986, when Apple presented its Macintosh Plus with a megabyte of memory and iphone was not even a distant utopia, Trappl prophesied what is being discussed tirelessly today: AI will take on physical and mental work. For a long time, cyberneticist only took heed in academic circles; He published with Press and collaborated with universities all over world. "Maybe I was too early," he says.
This article dates back to time No. 47/2017. Here you can read entire output.Today, AI is also synonymous with a threat that could wipe out humanity. Before that, physicist Stephen Hawking and Silicon Valley billionaires warns Bill Gates and Elon Musk. "All no AI researchers," says Trappl, who disables to defend machines.
TRAPPL is man-to-word counter-sis to apocalyptic scenarios. He is not afraid of a superintelligence that, as postulated by philosopher Nick Bostrom, heralds a post-human age. "I don't know how that should go. I always say to people who believe that y should donate to zoo in Schönbrunn. So that is well equipped, when we people re are visited by robots. "
But fear of killer robots is now bringing him and his research into spotlight. Instead of desperately beating ir hands over ir heads, it costs newly awakened interest to fullest. With devotion he plays Mad professor. During a talk of Global Conference series TEDx, he enters stage with a T-shirt, which is printed on pixel robots: "Crush all Humans". This summer, passionate pantomime and dancer led an "artificial Intelligence Dance" workshop at Vienna ImPulsTanz Festival. The motto: "Dance Your Enemy".
Date Of Update: 21 November 2017, 12:03
