Lectures and seminars Faculty event: Martin Eklund

Title

AI, the near future, and the hard problem

Abstract

About a year and three months ago, I gave a popular scientific faculty event presentation entitled “AI, Martians, and a few words on dictatorship”. In that presentation, we discussed how we got to a point in the AI development that smarter-than-human systems are being discussed as a possibility in the near future, as well as some potential mathematical limitations to that development. I will now give a "part 2” of that presentation. I will provide a brief update of how AI functionality has developed since the part 1 presentation and provide my view of what influence that development may have on our research. In the part 1 presentation, I very briefly mentioned “the hard problem”, which we will dig a little deeper into during this part 2 presentation. It will be exciting — we will discuss bats, super scientists, and panpsychism — so please come and listen.

Short Bio

Martin Eklund is professor of epidemiology at the Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics where he focusses his research on reducing the mortality of prostate cancer as well as the negative side effects of today’s imprecise diagnostics and treatment selection. He works a lot on development of AI systems for clinical decision making.

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Join the faculty event in Wargentin! After the seminar, the faculty lunch will be served in Ljusgården. The faculty lunches are intended for employees at MEB, and a monthly net salary deduction of 260 SEK will be made for those who work here 20% or more. If you have any questions about the lunch or specific dietary needs due to allergies, etc., please contact internservice@meb.ki.se. If you won’t be participating in the lunches for all or part of the spring term, our new routine is that you need to contact hr-support@meb.ki.se at the start of a new term, to be removed from the list. Retroactive adjustments will not be possible.  

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