Artificial Intelligence
Speaker: Brett Martensen, founder of Adaptron Inc.
AI has become big news, particularly ChatGPT which, among other things, can write essays to order, an ability that the media built up to be (almost) the end of civilization as we know it. This talk will give us a clearer picture of what AI is, what it can do and what will be left for us to do.
Brett studied physics at UBC (Class of ’71) and earned his MSc at Queens (Class of ’76). At the same time, he was doing Artificial Intelligence research as a hobby. He pursued it as a hobby until 2001. In 2002 he founded Adaptron Inc. to continue the research inside a corporate structure. The company performs Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) research. AGI should be able to learn to do anything a human can do. That includes recognizing things, performing tasks and learning how to think.
Brett has said that a research principle is to explain things at the simple level first. That should dispel any worries that it will be over our heads.
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