Alan Winfield
@alan-winfield.bsky.social
Engineer, roboethicist and pro-feminist. Interested in robots as working models of life, evolution, intelligence and culture. Prof Robot Ethics, Bristol Robotics Lab. Home page: https://people.uwe.ac.uk/Person/AlanWinfield
One of my favourite trees. A giant sequoia, Wellingtonia. Just magnificent. #treelover
March 9, 2025 at 6:16 PM
One of my favourite trees. A giant sequoia, Wellingtonia. Just magnificent. #treelover
We stil have one of your wonderful Baxter robots here in the Bristol Robotics Lab. We also built our own, called BERT, for research on gestural human robot communication. The robot to the right of Baxter is RoboThespian, from UK company Engineered Arts engineeredarts.com/robot/roboth... #Robotics
February 27, 2025 at 9:42 AM
We stil have one of your wonderful Baxter robots here in the Bristol Robotics Lab. We also built our own, called BERT, for research on gestural human robot communication. The robot to the right of Baxter is RoboThespian, from UK company Engineered Arts engineeredarts.com/robot/roboth... #Robotics
Wonderful @iaseai.bsky.social keynote from @katecrawford.bsky.social, highlighting the colossal energy costs of #AI and calling for standards & requirements for energy transparency from AI companies.
February 7, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Wonderful @iaseai.bsky.social keynote from @katecrawford.bsky.social, highlighting the colossal energy costs of #AI and calling for standards & requirements for energy transparency from AI companies.
Excellent @iaseai.bsky.social keynote from Max Tegmark, Future of Life Institute, arguing for regulators & standards that forbid AGI. Amen to that.
February 7, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Excellent @iaseai.bsky.social keynote from Max Tegmark, Future of Life Institute, arguing for regulators & standards that forbid AGI. Amen to that.
Brilliant keynote by the legendary Joseph Stieglitz @iaseai.bsky.social
February 7, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Brilliant keynote by the legendary Joseph Stieglitz @iaseai.bsky.social
Listening to opening remarks at @iaseai.bsky.social Very good to hear the secretary general of the OECD mention their AI ethics group have set up an AI incidents watch👍
February 6, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Listening to opening remarks at @iaseai.bsky.social Very good to hear the secretary general of the OECD mention their AI ethics group have set up an AI incidents watch👍
@chrisley.bsky.social presenting his super interesting work testing LLMs capacity for mental imagery.
January 16, 2025 at 9:50 AM
@chrisley.bsky.social presenting his super interesting work testing LLMs capacity for mental imagery.
Listening to my old friend Owen Holland’s brilliant keynote ‘AI and the simulation of consciousness’ at the AISB 2025 meeting aisb.org.uk
January 15, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Listening to my old friend Owen Holland’s brilliant keynote ‘AI and the simulation of consciousness’ at the AISB 2025 meeting aisb.org.uk