Exhibit Presentation:
SATURDAY, FEB 15, 2020
3:00 PM | SECOND FLOOR AUDITORIUM
Presentation of the exhibit on Artificial Intelligence with Julia Stoyanovich, assistant professor of computer science and engineering at NYU, and Carlo Torniai, advisory council member of DominoDataLab
The exhibit is sponsored by E2E analytics.
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When we hear the words “artificial intelligence,” it is hard not to relate them to the pop culture and science fiction that so deeply influence the way we perceive the world. Will then robots turn against us and destroy the world as we have seen in “Terminator”? Will we be imprisoned by machines in a fake reality called “The Matrix” or we will hunt them as in “Blade Runner”? Though science fiction inspired and keeps inspiring great scientists and technological progress, what is today’s state of the art of artificial intelligence? What’s behind it? When we read the news, we hear scary stories like social networks sucking in all our data with some (un)conscious consent and turning them into weapons of mass influence able to drive what we decide to buy or to vote. We also hear overexcited stories of how the industry 4.0 will change everything - how big data and algorithms, perceived as the frontier of objectivity and rationalism, will make our societies better and greater. It is then easy to take sides based on emotions that such stories provoke, but what is really Artificial Intelligence? What can it really do? How does it help us and how can it become harmful?
This exhibition dives deeper into these and other questions by educating the general public on the latest technology developments described by the mainstream term "Artificial Intelligence" (AI). Going through a journey between the known and the unknown, the fiction and the reality of software, what did professionals and academics learn about building and using "artificially intelligent" software? What questions does AI raise about the nature of intelligence, the human being, our work, desires, and purpose?
