Bart Selman

Bart Selman is a Dutch-American professor of computer science at Cornell University. He is also co-founder and principal investigator of the Center for Human-Compatible Artificial Intelligence (CHAI) at the University of California, Berkeley, led by Stuart J. Russell, and co-chair of the Computing Community Consortium's 20-year roadmap for AI research. In 2020-2022, he was the president of AAAI

Quotes

• The big obstacle, though it's not an obstacle because I think it will just take time, is the computer has to learn more about the way we see the world.

• It's very hard to understand the world from a human perspective. Intelligence relies on the way we view the world as humans, and the way we think about the world.

• Computers are just starting to be able to hear and starting to being able to see images. Those are tremendous improvements in the field in the last five years.

• We're doing that by having computers read millions of texts and pages from the web, by hooking them up to cameras and moving them around human environments.