WEBINAR Associate Professor Tim Miller "Explainable artificial intelligence"
Speaker: Associate Professor Tim Miller
School of Computing and Information Systems Melbourne School of Engineering
Title: Explainable artificial intelligence: beware the inmates running the asylum (or How I learnt to stop worrying and love the social and behavioural sciences)
Abstract: In his seminal book “The Inmates are Running the Asylum: Why High-Tech Products Drive Us Crazy and how to Restore the Sanity”, Alan Cooper argues that a major reason why software is often poorly designed (from a user perspective) is that programmers are in charge. As a result, programmers design software that works for themselves, rather than for their target audience; a phenomenon he refers to as the ‘inmates running the asylum’. In this talk, I argue that explainable AI risks a similar fate if AI researchers and practitioners do not take a cross-disciplinary approach to explainable AI. I further assert that to do this, we must understand, adopt, implement, and improve models from the vast and valuable bodies of research in philosophy, psychology, and cognitive science; and focus evaluation on people instead of just technology. I will discuss some key theories on explanation in the social sciences, and will present some key examples of how we have used these in our research.
Bio: Tim is an associate professor of computer science and Deputy Head (Academic) in the School of Computing and Information Systems at The University of Melbourne, and Co-Director for the Centre of AI and Digital Ethics (https://law.unimelb.edu.au/centres/caide). His primary area of expertise is in artificial intelligence, with particular emphasis on human-AI interaction, and Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI). His work is at the intersection of artificial intelligence, interaction design, and cognitive science/psychology.
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- Date: 09 Feb 2021
- Time: 05:00 PM to 07:00 PM
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- Starts 03 December 2020 11:52 AM
- Ends 09 February 2021 07:00 PM
- All times are (GMT+10:00) Australia/Queensland
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Associate Professor Tim Miller
Explainable artificial intellig
Tim is an associate professor of computer science and Deputy Head (Academic) in the School of Computing and Information Systems at The University of Melbourne, and Co-Director for the Centre of AI and Digital Ethics (https://law.unimelb.edu.au/centres/caide). His primary area of expertise is in artificial intelligence, with particular emphasis on human-AI interaction, and Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI). His work is at the intersection of artificial intelligence, interaction design, and cognitive science/psychology.
Biography:
Tim is an associate professor of computer science and Deputy Head (Academic) in the School of Computing and Information Systems at The University of Melbourne, and Co-Director for the Centre of AI and Digital Ethics (https://law.unimelb.edu.au/centres/caide). His primary area of expertise is in artificial intelligence, with particular emphasis on human-AI interaction, and Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI). His work is at the intersection of artificial intelligence, interaction design, and cognitive science/psychology.
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Address:School of Computing and Information Systems, Melbourne School of Engineering, Melbourne, Australia