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Will there be a day when machines are more intelligent than us? Probably yes! But how can we use these virtual brains to improve our society? Tonight, we will hear how artificial intelligence will shape our future and how information obtained from our smartphones can be used for good purposes. During the event there will be games and prizes to be won! This event will be held on the ground floor.
Why size matters
Dr Jorge Cardoso
(Lecturer in Quantitative Neuroradiology)
Neurological diseases are pretty crap. They affect memory, behaviour and people’s ability to lead normal, happy lives. It costs the economy billions of pounds, and many of them have no cure. So how can data captured in every clinical interaction, from our medical record to images of our brain, can be used to identify, understand and predict the progression of these debilitating conditions before the real damage kicks in? By combining big data with machine learning, we are suddenly able to disentangle what is normal from what is abnormal, a primer for personalised medicine.
Teaching machines to recognize human actions by watching YouTube
Dr. João Carreira
(Research Scientist at Google DeepMind)
Recent advances in computer vision and machine learning have led to the existence of software that can “learn” to recognize faces and objects in static images with unprecedented accuracy, rivaling human vision. Video understanding, on the other hand remains a challenging problem. In this talk I will discuss recent work at DeepMind about training programs on hundreds of thousands of annotated YouTube clips, so that they can compute what people are doing in videos: Drinking a pint of beer?
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