Can We Build a Brain? 

Artificially intelligent machines are taking over and influence our everyday lives. The world's brightest computer programmers are building brighter machines by reverse-engineering the ... See full summary »

Director:

Anna Lee Strachan

Writer:

Michael Bicks

Stars:

Matthew Botvinick, Rodney Brooks, Lili Cheng

Cast

Episode credited cast:
Matthew Botvinick	...	Self
Rodney Brooks	...	Self
Lili Cheng	...	Self
Greg Corrado	...	Self
David Cox	...	Self
Pedro Domingos	...	Self
Rana El Kaliouby	...	Self - Co-Host
Oren Etzioni	...	Self
Ali Farhadi	...	Self
Andre Fenton	...	Self - Co-Host
Bill Ford	...	Self
Dr. Geoffrey Hinton	...	Self
Hsiao-Wuen Hon	...	Self
Justin Johnson	...	Self
Christof Koch	...	Self

Storyline

Artificially intelligent machines are taking over and influence our everyday lives. The world's brightest computer programmers are building brighter machines by reverse-engineering the brain and inventing completely new kinds of computers with greater speed and processing power. NOVA Wonders looks at how far we've come and where machines are headed as their software becomes ever more...cerebral.

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Plot Keywords:

xiaoice | chatting | turing test | playing chess | gray tabby kitten | 

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Genres:

Documentary

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Certificate:

TV-PG

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Details

Release Date:

4 May 2018 (USA)

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Technical Specs

Runtime:

53 min