[CogSci] Spotlight Seminar on AI - Melanie Mitchell - October 25 2024 (5:00 PM, CET)

[Antonio Lieto]

[* Apologies in case of multiple posting *]

The Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence, in collaboration with
the AISB (Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and Simulation
of Behaviour, UK) is pleased to announce the next seminar of its Spotlight
Seminars on AI initiative:

October, 25 – 5:00PM (CET)

Title: AI’s Challenge of Understanding the World

Speaker: Melanie Mitchell, Santa Fe Institute, USA

Link Streaming: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRJgqSbk71o

Abstract:  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.

Bio: Melanie 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.

The joint AI*IA/AISB Committee of the Spotlight Seminars on AI,

Giuseppe De Giacomo

Floriana Grasso

Antonio Lieto

Bertie Muller

Luciano Serafini


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Antonio Lieto, Ph.D
Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of Salerno, Italy
Head of Cognition Interaction and Intelligent Technologies Lab (CIIT)
Research Associate at ICAR-CNR, Palermo, Italy
Home: https://www.antoniolieto.net
ACM Distinguished Speaker: https://speakers.acm.org/speakers/lieto_12489

Deputy Editor in Chief of JETAI (Journal of Exp. & Theor. Artif. Intell.,
T&F)
https://www.tandfonline.com/jetai
<https://www.tandfonline.com/action/journalInformation?show=editorialBoard&journalCode=teta20>

Associate Editor of Cognitive Systems Research (Elsevier)
https://www.journals.elsevier.com/cognitive-systems-research/editorial-board


Author of "Cognitive Design for Artificial Minds" (2021), Routledge, Taylor
& Francis.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/1138207950
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