AI: Friend or Foe?

The AI revolution may change our views of personal identity, both in existential ways when human intelligence and goals cease to be dominant, and also in political respects such as perpetual enslavement of Robo-Sapiens or us being lucky enough to be kept around as their pets. This talk discusses the practical matter of human face recognition by humans and by AIs equipped with Computer Vision.

Machine learning is a fascinating branch of Artificial Intelligence and the ability to make devices smarter is having a massive impact on the value they can add to our lives. From deep learning to decision-making, this talk will examine how machine learning works, and how far the field has come since its inception. Speech recognition, computer vision and other exciting emerging-use cases will be featured in the talk.

Drones, driverless cars, films portraying robots that look and think like humans… Today, technology has taken over almost all walks of life and the only degree of separation of machines from humans remains our ability to reason. So it is not surprising that people are wondering about our future and asking questions like “Will Artificial Intelligence be superior to the human brain?” I will answer this question from a scientific perspective and talk about building AI systems that capture informal human and intuitive ways of solving problems.