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The second in the series of free 'AI accelerator' events organised by the BCS Women Specialist Group and SGAI, the BCS Specialist Group on Artificial Intelligence will be held on Thursday July 20th from 6 p.m. to 8.30 p.m. at the BCS London Office.
6pm: Door Opening
6.30pm: Start and Introduction by Nadia Abouayoub
1h Session run by Professor Max Bramer
Q&A and Conclusion: run by Nadia Abouayoub
The topic will be 'An Artificial Intelligence: How did we get here and where are we going?', presented by Prof. Max Bramer, University of Portsmouth.
Abstract:
Professor Bramer joined the small
Artificial Intelligence (AI) research community in Britain as a part-time PhD
student in the early 1970s, just in time to see the field virtually wiped out
in this country following a very hostile report to the main national funding
agency.
AI techniques have become near-ubiquitous in recent years, often under other names such as Recommendation Systems, Intelligent Robotics, Conversational Agents or Big Data. It is now possible to discuss the idea of a machine possibly becoming intelligent in respectable circles and AI has gone from being dismissed as of no value 40 years ago to being denounced today as a possible threat to the survival of our species.
In this talk Professor Bramer will give a personal and highly selective view of the history of this important field and he will look at some of the ways in which AI is now in everyday use and some recent high-level applications, together with the issues of legal liability some of them raise. Finally he will consider some alternative possible AI futures and to what extent the warnings that are now being made about AI by some prominent people are justified.
More information and an online registration form is available at
http://www.bcs-sgai.org/?secti