What is Artificial Intelligence & How Does It Work? Thurs., Oct. 1, 7 pm

Active, Adults, Seniors
Close-up of a computer chip with AI text glowing in blue.

Artificial Intelligence seems to be everywhere today. This talk will help you understand what AI is, and what it can and can’t do.

Thursday, October 1
7 pm




Topics will include:

  • How do AI Chatbots work?
  • Do they really understand?
  • Why might we want to limit what AI programs can do?
  • Will we have super-intelligent AIs soon? (No! And we’ll talk about why.)

Presented by Mitch Marcus. Mitch is RCA Professor of Artificial Intelligence Emeritus in the Department of Computer and Information Science at the University of Pennsylvania, where he was also Professor of Linguistics. He received an AB from Harvard University in Linguistics and Applied Math and a Ph.D. from the MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab. He is a fellow of American Association of Artificial Intelligence, a founding fellow of the Association for Computational Linguistics and served for over a decade as chair of the advisory board of the Center of Excellence in Human Language Technologies at Johns Hopkins University. 

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