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February 15, 2005
Notacon submission
Sean has agreed to co-present with me at Notacon, which will be good. I think between us we'll do a better job of holding an audience's attention for 30-60 minutes than I would have been able to do alone. We submitted our proposal yesterday evening; here is the talk outline:
"Walking before we run: how biology is inspiring progress in AI"Computers may be outstanding tools for processing data, but they still require constant human oversight and perform poorly at many tasks that come naturally to even ‘lower’ animals.   Meanwhile our attempts at making computers do these sorts of tasks are giving biologists and psychologists new insight into how natural systems work.
This talk will show you examples of recent work in artificial intelligence that draws its inspiration from biology, and life sciences research that is informed by computer models. We hope to convince you that these are useful for everything from spam filtering to Mars rovers to diagnosing heart failure.Â
Suggestions for content are welcome. At this stage I have only a pretty vague idea of which examples to give and how to tie it together as a whole.
update: the proposal's been officially accepted.