Chateando con la Ciencia: Ramón López de Mántaras
Chateando con la Ciencia: Is artificial intelligence really intelligent?
On Thursday 13 June, last session of the season’s Chateando con la Ciencia lecture series with Ramón López de Mántaras: ‘Is artificial intelligence really intelligent?
13 June 2024, 19:00, online.
Access code: apply to palacio@unizar.es before 11th June.
The last session of the VIII edition of the Cycle of talks ‘Chateando con la Ciencia’, organised by the Real Zaragoza Tennis Club with the collaboration of the Institute of Nanoscience and Materials of Aragon, INMA, a joint institute of the CSIC and the University of Zaragoza, will take place on Thursday 13 June with the conference by Ramón López de Mántaras, Emeritus Research Professor of the Spanish National Research Council at the Artificial Intelligence Research Institute, who will give a talk entitled: Is artificial intelligence really intelligent?
Summary of the talk:
In this lecture Ramón López will share some reflections on the intelligence of Artificial Intelligence and its comparison with human intelligence. He will question the exaggerated perception of the current state of AI, pointing out that current systems have what Daniel Dennet calls ‘skills without understanding’. That is, they lack basic knowledge about the world, which limits their understanding of the world and language. Finally, he will recall some current challenges of AI, such as privacy, the bias of algorithms, its potential to manipulate and misinform, or the unsustainable energy consumption, advocating for a stricter regulation of AI and a better education about its risks and benefits in order to take advantage of its potential in a responsible way.
Ramón López de Mántaras is CSIC Research Professor (emeritus) at the Artificial Intelligence Research Institute, of which he was founder and director, and Distinguished Visiting Professor at Western Sydney University. Pioneer of AI in Spain and Europe. PhD in Physics from Paul Sabatier University in Toulouse (France), Master of Science in Computer Science from the University of California-Berkeley (USA) and PhD in Computer Science from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia. He was Full Professor at the Faculty of Computer Science in Barcelona and Professor at the Université Pierre et Marie Curie in Paris.
He was senior editor of the European AI journal (AI Comunications) and associate editor of the most prestigious journal in AI (Artificial Intelligence Journal). Author of more than 300 scientific papers and of the popular book ‘Inteligencia Artificial’ (2017, together with Pedro Meseguer). He has received, among others, the following awards: City of Barcelona Research Award (1982), Swets & Zeitlinger Award from the International Association for Music Informatics (1997), Robert S. Engelmore Award from the American AI Association (2011), Distinguished Service Award from the European AI Association (2016), Donald E. Walker Award from IJCAI (2017) and Julio Rey Pastor National Research Award in Mathematics and Information and Communication Technologies (2018). He is currently researching cause-effect learning and transfer learning.
The talk will be offered online. In order to access the talk in the online modality it is necessary to request an access code to the following email address: palacio@unizar.es before 11 June 2024.
