SFI Lecture: ‘The Future Of Artificial Intelligence’ By AI Expert Melanie Mitchell At The Lensic Performing Arts Center

Submitted by Carol A. Clark
on November 6, 2023
- 6:35 am

Santa Fe Institute Professor Melanie Mitchell will lecture on ‘The Future of Artificial Intelligence’ at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 15 at The Lensic Performing Arts Center in Santa Fe. Photo by Kate Joyce

SFI News:

Santa Fe Institute community lecture “The Future of Artificial Intelligence” with Melanie Mitchell Santa Fe Institute is 7:30 p.m., Wednesday, Nov. 15 at The Lensic Performing Arts Center (211 W. San Francisco St. in Santa Fe).

AI is all around us recognizing our faces in photos, transcribing our speech, constructing our news feeds, navigating our driving routes, answering our search queries, and much more. But rapidly improving AI is poised to play a much bigger role in all of our lives. In this lecture, AI expert Melanie Mitchell will demystify how current-day AI works, how “intelligent” it really is, and what our expectations—and concerns—about its near-term and long-term prospects should be.

Melanie Mitchell is a professor at the Santa Fe Institute. Her current research focuses on conceptual abstraction, analogy-making, and visual recognition in artificial intelligence systems. She is the author or editor of six books and numerous scholarly papers in the fields of artificial intelligence, cognitive science, and complex systems. Her book Complexity: A Guided Tour won the 2010 Phi Beta Kappa Science Book Award and was named by Amazon as one of the 10 best science books of 2009. Her latest book is Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans. She originated the Santa Fe Institute’s Complexity Explorer platform, where her online course “Introduction to Complexity” has been taken by over 25,000 students, and is one of Course Central’s “top fifty online courses of all time.”

Reserve free tickets through The Lensic Box Office online or call 505.988.1234. Santa Fe residents are encouraged to attend in person. This lecture will be streaming from Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and YouTube page.

This lecture is presented at no cost to the public thanks to generous sponsorship from the McKinnon Family Foundation, with additional support provided by The Lensic Performing Arts Center and the Santa Fe Reporter.