Christopher Summerfield
These Strange New Minds: How AI Learned to Talk and What It Means
Friday October 24, 8:00 - 9:00PM
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Stunning advances in digital technology have given us a new wave of human-like AI systems capable of upturning our economies, challenging our democracies, and refashioning society. Before long, these systems could be making autonomous decisions on the user’s behalf, with transformative impact on everything we do. How?
Do they ‘think’, ‘know’ and ‘understand’? Could they manipulate or deceive you, and if so, what might they make you do? Whose interests do they represent? And when will they be able to take actions for themselves in the real world?
Can we look forward to a technological utopia, or are we writing ourselves out of history?
Christopher Summerfield, a Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at Oxford, is Research Director at the AI Security Institute, the UK’s pioneering organisation dedicated to ensuring that advanced AI technology is both safe and beneficial. His is the first authoritative book to explain how it works. Put simply, you must listen to him.
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