October 23, 2024
12:00 PM (EST)/ 9:00 AM (MST)
About the Seminar: AI’s Challenge of Understanding the World
I will survey a debate in the artificial intelligence (AI) research community on the extent to which current AI systems can be said to “understand” language and the physical and social situations language encodes. I will describe arguments that have been made for and against such understanding, hypothesize about what humanlike understanding entails, and discuss what methods can be used to fairly evaluate understanding and intelligence in AI systems.
Dr. Melanie Mitchell
Professor at the Santa Fe Institute and writer on the topic of AI.
The Center for Accelerating Operational Efficiency (CAOE) invites you to our seminar series Perils and Promises of Artificial Intelligence for the Homeland Security Enterprise. This second seminar in this series will feature speaker Dr. Melanie Mitchell. Dr. Mitchell is Professor at the Santa Fe Institute. Her current research focuses on conceptual abstraction and analogy-making in artificial intelligence systems. Melanie 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.
About the CAOE Seminar Series
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has taken the world by storm with applications in self-driving cars, medical diagnostics, biometric analysis, and more. However, the use of AI is not without its own drawbacks. As such, it is critical to understand the current state of the art in AI, where the field is going, and what can (or cannot) currently be accomplished with Artificial Intelligence. In this seminar series, we invite AI luminaries to discuss current advances in Artificial Intelligence and offer insights into the perils and promises of such technology for the Homeland Security Enterprise.
Event Location
Attend: Virtual via Zoom Webinar
