Abstract: We will first look at AI as it is being practiced today. It will contain a brief overview of the problems and techniques where significant progress has been made. These technologies/ applications have already been deployed or will soon see mainstream deployment in the near future.

We will then briefly look at human intelligence and the main dimensions along which it differs from current AI giving us some directions in which AI can go. And finally, very briefly, we look at regulatory, legal and ethical issues.

 Speaker bio: Prof. Harish Karnick Prof. Harish Karnick was a Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering in IIT Kanpur from 1984 to 2018. He retired in 2018 and currently, working as an Emeritus Fellow. After retirement, he has been involved with the interdisciplinary program in cognitive science which became a full-fledged department in the end of December, 2020. He did his BTech in Chemical Engineering from IIT Bombay in 1974, followed by MTech and PhD in 1977 and 1983 respectively, both from IIT Kanpur. His interests are in AI and machine learning and more recently in computational models of cognition.

Zoom link: https://flameuniversity.zoom.us/j/92041775456

Meeting ID: 920 4177 5456