Norfolk Cambridge Society virtually welcome Professor Richard Harvey to give his lecture on Artificial Intelligence - How much is it likely to impact your life? online. 

Many believe that Artificial Intelligence (AI) will be the most important technological development impacting on human life in the twenty-first century, changing many aspects of the global economy, security, communications, and transportation. Certainly it will alter how humans work, communicate, think and decide. Intelligent machines will either team up with or replace humans in a broad range of activities and the opportunities presented to improve our lives will be legion. It will also present substantial challenges, however, from staying in control of machines often capable of learning faster than us, to dealing with the societal consequences of rapidly changing job markets. Professor Harvey's talk will focus on both the longer term potential and some of the shorter term problems presented by AI. For example, modern learning machines come to conclusions without much explanation as to why. How is it possible to use machines which are mute about their reasoning? How can people make career choices when there is the probability that their careers will be automated? And given the enormous hype about AI, how can we distinguish the science from the snake oil?

About the speaker

Professor Richard Harvey is Professor at the School of Computing Sciences, University of East Anglia, and IT Livery Company Professor of Information Technology at Gresham College in London. He also holds several posts in the Vice-Chancellor's Office at the University of East Anglia, including Academic Director for Admissions.