Melanie Mitchell is Professor at the Santa Fe Institute. Her current research focuses on conceptual abstraction and analogy-making in artificial intelligence systems. Melanie is the author or editor of six books and numerous scholarly papers in the fields of artificial intelligence, cognitive science, and complex systems. Her 2009 book Complexity: A Guided Tour (Oxford University Press) won the 2010 Phi Beta Kappa Science Book Award, and her 2019 book Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux) is a finalist for the 2023 Cosmos Prize for Scientific Writing.
Talk
AI’s Challenge of Understanding the World | June 6
Sessions in which Melanie Mitchell participates
Thursday 6 June, 2024
Melanie Mitchell will survey a debate in the artificial intelligence (AI) research community on the extent to which current AI systems can be said to "understand" language and the physical and social situations language encodes. She will describe arguments that have been made for and against such understanding, hypothesize about what humanlike understanding entails, and discuss what methods can be used to fairly evaluate understanding and intelligence in AI systems.&nb...