4th HLF – Hot Topic: Artificial Intelligence – Panel Discussion 2
Analyzing the challenges posed by Artificial Intelligence at the 4th Heidelberg Laureate Forum – Experts discuss the costs and benefits created by developments brought on by Artificial Intelligence.
In recent years, Artificial Intelligence (AI) has established itself at the forefront of technological innovation. That is precisely why AI was the focus of the Hot Topic at the 4th Heidelberg Laureate Forum (HLF). The session was comprised of a panel discussion with leading researchers debating the current scientific trends in AI and its applications.
Today, AI is no longer a brash, cryptic concept taken directly from the pages of science fiction. The developments owed to the technology based on AI have altered what we thought possible and has done so in a much quicker fashion than was predicted. The power behind these advancements is already very evident with self-driving cars or algorithms that profile our Internet activity in order to tailor ads and search results. Though fascinating, this progress comes with a price of control and privacy loss that incites ethical questions.
The Hot Topic session took place on September 20, 2016.
Panelists:
Vint Cerf is Google’s Vice President and „Chief Internet Evangelist“. He won the ACM A.M. Turing Award in 2004 for his pioneering work on the Internet and he is recognized as one of the “fathers of the Internet”.
Thomas Dreier is the Director of the Centre for Applied Legal Studies at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). His research fields are legal aspects of the information society and of new technologies as well as copyright law.
Dirk Helbing is Professor of Computational Social Science at the ETH in Zurich. He works on modeling social processes with mathematical means and is one of the signatories of the “Digital Manifesto” in which several German scientists have expressed their concerns about the social applications of modern digital technologies.
James A. Hendler is Professor of Computer, Web and Cognitive Sciences at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in the state of New York. He will give an introduction into current AI technologies.
Raj Reddy from Carnegie Mellon University won the ACM A.M. Turing Award in 1994. He was the founding director of CMU’s robotics lab, and his latest research centers around “Technology in Service of Society”.
Holger Schwenk is a research scientist at Facebook Artificial Intelligence Research Paris. He received his PhD in Computer Science from the University Paris 6 in 1996, and prior to joining Facebook in 2015, he was professor for computer science at the University of Le Mans where he led a large group on statistical machine translation.
Noel Sharkey, an Emeritus Professor of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics at the University of Sheffield, chairs the International Committee for Robot Arms Control and is a co-founder of the Foundation for Responsible Robotics.
The Hot Topic has been coordinated and was moderated by Christoph Drösser who holds a diploma in mathematics and was a longtime science editor and reporter for DIE ZEIT, Germany’s major weekly paper. He now works as a freelance writer in San Francisco, USA.
The opinions expressed in this video do not necessarily reflect the views of the Heidelberg Laureate Forum Foundation or any other person or associated institution involved in the making and distribution of the video.
Background:
The Heidelberg Laureate Forum Foundation (HLFF) annually organizes the Heidelberg Laureate Forum (HLF), which is a networking event for mathematicians and computer scientists from all over the world. The 4th Heidelberg Laureate Forum took place from September 18 to 23, 2016. The HLFF was established and is funded by the German foundation the Klaus Tschira Stiftung (KTS), which promotes natural sciences, mathematics and computer science. The Scientific Partners of the HLFF are the Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies (HITS) and Heidelberg University. The HLF is strongly supported by the award-granting institutions, the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM: ACM A.M. Turing Award, ACM Prize in Computing as of 2017), the International Mathematical Union (IMU: Fields Medal, Nevanlinna Prize), and the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters (DNVA: Abel Prize).
More information to the Heidelberg Laureate Forum:
Website: http://www.heidelberg-laureate-forum.org/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/HeidelbergLaureateForum
Twitter: https://twitter.com/hlforum
Flickr: https://www.flickr.com/hlforum
More videos from the HLF: https://www.youtube.com/user/LaureateForum
Blog: https://scilogs.spektrum.de/hlf/
Analyzing the challenges posed by Artificial Intelligence at the 4th Heidelberg Laureate Forum – Experts discuss the costs and benefits created by developments brought on by Artificial Intelligence.
In recent years, Artificial Intelligence (AI) has established itself at the forefront of technological innovation. That is precisely why AI was the focus of the Hot Topic at the 4th Heidelberg Laureate Forum (HLF). The session was comprised of a panel discussion with leading researchers debating the current scientific trends in AI and its applications.
Today, AI is no longer a brash, cryptic concept taken directly from the pages of science fiction. The developments owed to the technology based on AI have altered what we thought possible and has done so in a much quicker fashion than was predicted. The power behind these advancements is already very evident with self-driving cars or algorithms that profile our Internet activity in order to tailor ads and search results. Though fascinating, this progress comes with a price of control and privacy loss that incites ethical questions.
The Hot Topic session took place on September 20, 2016.
Panelists:
Vint Cerf is Google’s Vice President and „Chief Internet Evangelist“. He won the ACM A.M. Turing Award in 2004 for his pioneering work on the Internet and he is recognized as one of the “fathers of the Internet”.
Thomas Dreier is the Director of the Centre for Applied Legal Studies at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). His research fields are legal aspects of the information society and of new technologies as well as copyright law.
Dirk Helbing is Professor of Computational Social Science at the ETH in Zurich. He works on modeling social processes with mathematical means and is one of the signatories of the “Digital Manifesto” in which several German scientists have expressed their concerns about the social applications of modern digital technologies.
James A. Hendler is Professor of Computer, Web and Cognitive Sciences at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in the state of New York. He will give an introduction into current AI technologies.
Raj Reddy from Carnegie Mellon University won the ACM A.M. Turing Award in 1994. He was the founding director of CMU’s robotics lab, and his latest research centers around “Technology in Service of Society”.
Holger Schwenk is a research scientist at Facebook Artificial Intelligence Research Paris. He received his PhD in Computer Science from the University Paris 6 in 1996, and prior to joining Facebook in 2015, he was professor for computer science at the University of Le Mans where he led a large group on statistical machine translation.
Noel Sharkey, an Emeritus Professor of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics at the University of Sheffield, chairs the International Committee for Robot Arms Control and is a co-founder of the Foundation for Responsible Robotics.
The Hot Topic has been coordinated and was moderated by Christoph Drösser who holds a diploma in mathematics and was a longtime science editor and reporter for DIE ZEIT, Germany’s major weekly paper. He now works as a freelance writer in San Francisco, USA.
The opinions expressed in this video do not necessarily reflect the views of the Heidelberg Laureate Forum Foundation or any other person or associated institution involved in the making and distribution of the video.
Background:
The Heidelberg Laureate Forum Foundation (HLFF) annually organizes the Heidelberg Laureate Forum (HLF), which is a networking event for mathematicians and computer scientists from all over the world. The 4th Heidelberg Laureate Forum took place from September 18 to 23, 2016. The HLFF was established and is funded by the German foundation the Klaus Tschira Stiftung (KTS), which promotes natural sciences, mathematics and computer science. The Scientific Partners of the HLFF are the Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies (HITS) and Heidelberg University. The HLF is strongly supported by the award-granting institutions, the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM: ACM A.M. Turing Award, ACM Prize in Computing as of 2017), the International Mathematical Union (IMU: Fields Medal, Nevanlinna Prize), and the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters (DNVA: Abel Prize).
More information to the Heidelberg Laureate Forum:
Website: http://www.heidelberg-laureate-forum.org/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/HeidelbergLaureateForum
Twitter: https://twitter.com/hlforum
Flickr: https://www.flickr.com/hlforum
More videos from the HLF: https://www.youtube.com/user/LaureateForum
Blog: https://scilogs.spektrum.de/hlf/
