LLNL’s Office of the Deputy Director for Science and Technology and the Data Science Institute co-hosted a colloquium by Dr. Stuart Russell from UC Berkeley on October 3, 2024. Dr. Russell is the Michael H. Smith and Lotfi A. Zadeh Chair in Engineering and a professor in UC Berkeley’s Division of Computer Science. His book Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach (with Peter Norvig) is the standard text in AI, with translations in 14 languages and use in 1,500 universities in 135 countries. His research covers a wide range of topics in artificial intelligence including machine learning, probabilistic reasoning, knowledge representation, planning, real-time decision making, multitarget tracking, computer vision, computational physiology, and philosophical foundations. In 2021, he was appointed by Her Majesty The Queen as an Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire.
Abstract: The media are agog with claims that recent advances in AI put artificial general intelligence (AGI) within reach. Is this true? If so, is that a good thing? Alan Turing predicted that AGI would result in the machines taking control. I will argue that Turing was right to express concern but wrong to think that doom is inevitable. Instead, we need to develop a new kind of AI that is provably beneficial to humans. Unfortunately, we are heading in the opposite direction and we need to take steps to correct this.
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