Artificial intelligence is already moving from science fiction to reality, and Canadians are among those leading the way. This broadly accessible tutorial by Kevin Leyton-Brown — a member of our congregation and the Director of UBC’s AI Center — will begin by describing the scientific journey that has brought us to this point. It will then offer an intuitive survey of the core ideas that make modern AI technologies work. Armed with this information, we’ll consider some of the limitations of “frontier” AI systems. Finally, we’ll investigate the likely impact of AI on our lives in the years to come, discussing jobs, impact on content creators, the future of education, human relationships, military use, climate, and more.
Bio: Kevin Leyton-Brown is a professor of Computer Science and a Distinguished University Scholar at the University of British Columbia. He holds a Canada CIFAR AI Chair at the Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute and is an associate member of the Vancouver School of Economics. He studies artificial intelligence and machine learning with a focus on connections both to microeconomic theory and to the design of algorithms for hard combinatorial problems. He is the Director of UBC’s Center for AI Decision-making and Action (http://caida.ubc.ca).
