Artificial Intelligence
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 welcomeintelligent machines or fearthem? Or perhaps questionwhether 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 surprisingfailures. 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.
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- Date: 04 Dec 2019
- Time: 01:00 PM to 02:00 PM
- All times are (UTC-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
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- 173 Skirmisher Lane
- Middletown, Virginia
- United States 22645
- Building: Fairfax Hall
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- Co-sponsored by Lord Fairfax Community College
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Melanie Mitchell of Portland State University and Santa Fe Institute
Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans
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 welcomeintelligent machines or fearthem? Or perhaps questionwhether 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 surprisingfailures. 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.
Biography:
Melanie Mitchell is Professor of Computer Science at Portland State University and External Professor at the Santa Fe Institute. 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.
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In person presentation at Middletown Campus (Room 300). Presentation will be streamed to the Fauquier Campus (room 115) located at: 6480 College St., Warrenton, VA 20187-8820