New Directions in Artificial Intelligence
Self-driving cars may soon change the world. But even more world-changing is the revolution taking place in speech and image recognition, predictive analytics, and deep learning. These new forms of artificial intelligence (AI) will impact our fields of study and our students in ways that we cannot yet imagine. In this FLC, faculty will together watch a video of a ground-breaking lecture by Dr. Naftali Tishby. Tishby links theories from AI, Information Theory, and Thermal Physics to explain the performance of deep neural networks, which may have broader implications for the nature of cognition. (https://www.quantamagazine.org/new-theory-cracks-open-the-black-box-of-deep-learning-20170921/) In addition, some members will give talks about the ideas in their own field that are behind these new theories.
Karl Schmitt Facilitator