Christopher Summerfield – These Strange New Minds
25th October @ 11:00 – 12:00
In the first authoritative book to explain how AI works and what it means, the Research Director at the UK government’s AI Safety Institute explains how advances in digital technology have given us a new wave of disarmingly human-like AI systems, set to upturn our economies, challenge democracies, and refashion society in unpredictable ways. These systems will soon be making autonomous decisions on the user’s behalf, transforming everything we do.
Christopher Summerfield shows you how AI actually works in language anyone can understand, explaining how ChatGPT and Bard have set off a meteoric rise in interest surrounding AI but all we’re talking about are techno-utopias or predictions of doom. Can AI systems ‘think’, ‘know’ and ‘understand’? Could they manipulate or deceive you, and if so, what might they make you do? Whose interests do they ultimately represent? And when will they be able to move beyond words and take actions for themselves in the real world? Ultimately, can we look forward to a technological utopia, or are we in the process of writing ourselves out of history?
Christopher Summerfield is a Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at Oxford, and Research Director at the AI Safety Institute (AISI), the UK’s pioneering state-backed organisation dedicated to ensuring that advanced AI technology is both safe and beneficial for society.
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