Event Date
Join us at the Dean's Distinguished Speaker Series, featuring Melanie Mitchell, Professor at the Santa Fe Institute, who will present "The Future of Artificial Intelligence."
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Abstract
AI is all around us — recognizing our faces in photos, transcribing our speech, constructing our news feeds, answering our questions, writing our essays and much more. But rapidly improving AI is poised to play a much bigger role in all of our lives. In this lecture, Mitchell will describe how current-day AI works, how “intelligent” it really is and what our expectations — and concerns — about its near-term and long-term prospects should be.
Speaker Bio
Melanie Mitchell is a Professor at the Santa Fe Institute. Her current research focuses on conceptual abstraction and analogy-making in artificial intelligence systems. Professor Mitchell is the author or editor of six books and numerous scholarly papers in the fields of artificial intelligence, cognitive science, and complex systems. Her 2009 book Complexity: A Guided Tour (Oxford University Press) won the 2010 Phi Beta Kappa Science Book Award, and her 2019 book Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux) was shortlisted for the 2023 Cosmos Prize for Scientific Writing.