Artificial intelligence: success, limits, myths and threats (Lecture 1) by Marc Mézard

INFOSYS-ICTS TURING LECTURES ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE: SUCCESS, LIMITS, MYTHS AND THREATS SPEAKER: Marc Mézard (Director of Ecole normale supérieure - PSL University) DATE: 06 January 2020, 16:00 to 17:30 VENUE: Chandrasekhar Auditorium, ICTS-TIFR, Bengaluru Lecture 1 (Public Lecture): 6 January 2020, 4:00 PM Title: Artificial intelligence: success, limits, myths and threats Abstract: Artificial Intelligence is about to have a dramatic impact on many sectors of human activity. In the last ten years, thanks to the development of machine learning in "deep networks", we have experienced spectacular breakthroughs in diverse applications such as automatic interpretation of images, speech recognition, consumer profiling, or go and chess playing. Algorithms are now competing with the best professionals at analyzing skin cancer symptoms or detecting specific anomalies in radiology; and much more is to come. Worrisome perspectives are frequently raised, from massive job destruction to autonomous decision-making "warrior" robots. In this talk, we shall open the black box of deep networks and explore how they are programmed to learn from data by themselves.