How soon are we going to be subjugated by AI overlords?
How soon are we going to be subjugated by AI overlords?
ChatGPT is the fastest growing app of all time, with over 100 million users. On the back of its spectacular success, many voices have been forecasting doomsday outcomes whereby AI systems will subjugate humanity. The aim of this talk is to get us as an academic community talking about the potential benefits and risks of AI and what we should be doing about them, as academics and as members of the wider community.
Speaker
Professor Geoff Webb
Geoff Webb is Professor in the Monash University Department of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence. He was editor in chief of the Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery journal, from 2005 to 2014. He has been Program Committee Chair of both ACM SIGKDD and IEEE ICDM, as well as General Chair of ICDM and member of the ACM SIGKDD Executive. He is a Technical Advisor to machine learning as a service startup BigML Inc and to recommender systems startup FROOMLE. He developed many of the key mechanisms of support-confidence association discovery in the 1980s. His OPUS search algorithm remains the state-of-the-art in rule search.
Professor Geoff Webb pioneered multiple research areas as diverse as black-box user modelling, interactive data analytics and statistically-sound pattern discovery. He has developed many useful machine learning algorithms that are widely deployed. His many awards include IEEE Fellow, the inaugural Eureka Prize for Excellence in Data Science (2017) and the Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining Distinguished Research Contributions Award (2022).
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