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Sep 24, 2023 #dwdocumentary #ai #documentary
Creativity. Emotions. Artificial intelligence is pushing further and further into primal human domains. The existential question arises: What actually makes us what we are, when the uniqueness of the human being is challenged?

For millennia, we humans saw ourselves as the pinnacle of creation, because only we could create art, talk to each other, play chess, throw bombs, vacuum the apartment and so on. But artificial intelligence and robots are increasingly making our apparent uniqueness pale in significance. What, if anything, makes humans unique? Can a computer be creative? And what does it mean for our society when we can no longer tell if we are communicating with a human being or with an artificial intelligence? After all, algorithms can determine our consumer behavior, write volumes of love poems, diagnose cancer, control weapons systems in war and drive cars.
Filmmaker Volker Strübing explores the relationship between humans and robots. Together with his AI named Thekla, he focuses on core values: What does the simulation of empathy or love mean? Why do we question the validity of a work of art, the moment we learn it was created by a machine? The documentary "I Compute, Therefore I Am" examines which areas we are willing to leave to an AI - and which we feel should belong exclusively to humans.

Apr 29, 2021
Imagine the incredible value if every project was delivered on time, on budget and with little or no change to the scope of work? That is the potential of applying artificial intelligence (AI) to project management. However, misconceptions and lack of preparation are huge challenges for organizations that attempt to implement AI for project management.

This presentation starts with a concise overview of AI and provides basic guidelines for how it can be used in projects. A practical demonstration of AI capability in project management is included. AI is a disruptive technology that will change the way we manage projects. We need to understand the potential of this technology and use it to deliver the project success rates that this profession truly deserves.

About the Presenter

Paul Boudreau is a highly respected project management professional with over thirty-five years experience in the technology industry. Paul is currently a college professor in Ottawa, Canada where he teaches in the project management program. He is a global leader in researching and applying AI concepts to project management, focusing on three areas: machine learning, natural language processing and genetic algorithms. He is obsessed with finding ways to dramatically increase project success rates and has written two books about using AI for project management, "Applying Artificial Intelligence to Project Management", and "How the Project Management Office Can Use Artificial Intelligence to Improve the Bottom Line".

Recorded October 4, 2023.

U of T Professor Emeritus Geoffrey Hinton is joined by Stanford University Professor Fei-Fei Li for a special talk on ethical AI, presented by Radical Ventures and hosted by the University of Toronto. They address the ethical considerations of AI development and its advancement — as well as its potential to solve some of the world’s most pressing problems. They also discuss their collaboration on one of the most important milestones in the history of modern AI.

Since leaving Google in May 2023, Geoffrey Hinton, known as the “godfather of AI,” has become vocal about the existential risks posed by rapid advancements in artificial intelligence. Li is co-director of Stanford’s Human-Centered AI Institute. She agrees with Hinton on the threat and emphasizes the need to invest in public institutions to help guide the technology’s future.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWWgr2rN45o

Sep 26, 2024 KING'S PLACE
In the first lecture of the series, The Alan Turing Institute’s Head of Online Safety and AI for Public Services, Jonathan Bright, will explore how political campaigns are making use of AI and the challenges posed by deepfakes. He'll also talk about fact-checking, content moderation and why it's so important to approach the media we consume in the digital age with a healthy amount of scepticism.

Jonathan will probe AI’s impact on our political world and what it might mean for the future of democracy. This talk aims to leave its audience with a better understanding of the ways in which AI could both support and undermine democracy, and the steps we can take to increase our resilience to AI generated misinformation.

This series of Turing Lectures is presented by The Alan Turing Institute, in partnership with Knowledge Quarter.

Nov 9, 2023 THE ROYAL INSTITUTION
As generative AI becomes increasingly sophisticated, its potential to revolutionise the way we interact with data is clear. It has already shown its ability to assist with tasks such as image and video synthesis, text and speech generation, and music composition. However, the rapid development of generative AI models has also raised concerns about their misuse, particularly in the context of disinformation campaigns, deepfakes and online harassment.

Are generative AI models moving too fast for regulation to keep up? Will the development of generative AI outpace our ability to ensure their responsible use?

In this lecture, Dr Mhairi Aitken will examine what this means for online and offline safety and discuss how society might be able to mitigate these risks.

Mhairi Aitken is an Ethics Fellow in the Public Policy Programme at The Alan Turing Institute, and an Honorary Senior Fellow at Australian Centre for Health Engagement, Evidence and Values (ACHEEV) at the University of Wollongong in Australia. She is a Sociologist whose research examines social and ethical dimensions of digital innovation particularly relating to uses of data and AI. She was included in the 2023 international list of “100 Brilliant Women in AI Ethics”.

This lecture is part of a series of events - How AI broke the internet - that explores the various angles of large-language models and generative AI in the public eye.

This series of Turing Lectures is organised in collaboration with The Royal Institution.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYdx74st9O4

Jan 25, 2024
December 5, 2023
Douwe Kiela, Contextual AI

Language models have led to amazing progress, but they also have important shortcomings. One solution for many of these shortcomings is retrieval augmentation. I will introduce the topic, survey recent literature on retrieval augmented language models and finish with some of the main open questions.

More about the course can be found here: https://web.stanford.edu/class/cs25/

Mustafa Suleyman is the ultimate AI insider. As co-founder of DeepMind and Inflection AI, he is one of the pioneers of the artificial intelligence revolution, potentially the single greatest accelerant of progress in history. Investors in Inflection AI include the likes of Microsoft, Nvidia and Bill Gates. Suleyman says AI represents nothing less than a step change in human capability and human society, introducing both risks and innovations on an awesome scale. This is what is coming.

In September 2023 Suleyman came to the Intelligence Squared stage to discuss his new book The Coming Wave: Technology, Power and the Twenty-First Century’s Greatest Dilemma. In conversation with Zanny Minton Beddoes, Editor-in-Chief of The Economist, he explained how he believes we are approaching a critical threshold in the history of humankind. Soon we will live surrounded by AIs which will carry out complex tasks – operating businesses, running government services and maintaining infrastructure. This will be a world of DNA printers and quantum computers, robot assistants and abundant energy, as well as human-engineered pathogens and autonomous weapons.

In this episode, Geoffrey Hinton, a renowned computer scientist and a leading expert in deep learning, provides an in-depth exploration of his groundbreaking new learning algorithm - the forward-forward algorithm. Hinton argues this algorithm provides a more plausible model for how the cerebral cortex might learn, and could be the key to unlocking new possibilities in artificial intelligence.

Throughout the episode, Hinton discusses the mechanics of the forward-forward algorithm, including how it differs from traditional deep learning models and what makes it more effective. He also provides insights into the potential applications of this new algorithm, such as enabling machines to perform tasks that were previously thought to be exclusive to human cognition.

Hinton shares his thoughts on the current state of deep learning and its future prospects, particularly in neuroscience. He explores how advances in deep learning may help us gain a better understanding of our own brains and how we can use this knowledge to create more intelligent machines.

Overall, this podcast provides a fascinating glimpse into the latest developments in artificial intelligence and the cutting-edge research being conducted by one of its leading pioneers.

Oct 18, 2024 SUPERC - RWTH HOCHSCHULVERWALTUNG
Speaker: Professor Dirk Helbing (ETH Zürich)
Titel: Artificial intelligence - a universal tool?

Center for Artificial Intelligence, RWTH Aachen: https://www.ai.rwth-aachen.de/

Abstract:
Research and development in the field of artificial intelligence is making breathtaking progress. Billions are being invested in the technology worldwide. It seems that we will soon have a universal tool that we can entrust with our world problems. But is that really the case? Or does AI also have limits that need to be taken into account? I will try to present answers to this question and present interesting examples of complex dynamic systems that urge caution in not neglecting alternative approaches.
Bio:
Dirk Helbing is Professor of Computational Social Science at the Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences at ETH Zurich, where he is also associated with the Department of Computer Science.
His current studies focus on the digital society, smart cities and the challenges and opportunities of digital democracies.
At TU Delft, he coordinated the doctoral program “Engineering Social Technologies for a Responsible Digital Future”.
He is also an elected member of the German Academy of Sciences “Leopoldina” and the External Faculty of the Complexity Science Hub Vienna.