Date and Time:
Date: 17 Jun 2020
Time: 12:00 PM to 01:00 PM All times are America/New_York
Registration Link:
[https://events.vtools.ieee.org/event/register/230374]()
Abstract:
Artificial intelligence has been described as "the new electricity",
poised to revolutionize human life and benefit society as much or more
than electricity did 100 years ago. AI has also been described as
"our biggest existential threat", a technology that could "spell the
end of the human race". Should we welcome intelligent machines or
fear them? Or perhaps question whether they are actually intelligent
at all? In this talk, AI researcher and award-winning author Melanie
Mitchell describes the current state of artificial intelligence,
highlighting the field's recent stunning achievements as well as its
surprising failures. Mitchell considers the ethical issues
surrounding the increasing deployment of AI systems in all aspects of
our society, and closely examines the prospects for imbuing computers
with humanlike qualities.
Pembicara: Prof, Melanie Mitchell, Ph.D
Melanie Mitchell is the Davis Professor at the Santa Fe Institute and
Professor of Computer Science at Portland State University. She is
widely known for her research and teaching in artificial intelligence,
machine learning, and complex systems, and is the author of numerous
scholarly papers and several books in these fields. Her
general-audience book, Complexity: A Guided Tour, won the 2010 Phi
Beta Kappa Science Book Award and was named by Amazon.com as one of
the ten best science books of 2009. Her newest book, Artificial
Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans, was recently published by
Farrar, Straus, and Giroux.