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DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Bernhard Schölkopf\nhosted by Tom Henzinger\nAbstract
 : Abstract: Progress in autonomous vehicles and digital assistants shows t
 hat today’s machines can perform certain human tasks with remarkable acc
 uracy. This has led to a gold rush mentality around AI\, yet a critical as
 sessment suggests that current technologies still lack versatility and onl
 y work within limited domains for which large sets of training data are av
 ailable. Transfer of knowledge\, common sense\, and an understanding of ca
 usality are open problems. These limitations are related to how we perform
  machine learning\, the technology powering AI: existing methods build on 
 statistics\, but one can also try to go beyond this\, assaying causal stru
 ctures underlying statistical dependences. Can causal knowledge help machi
 ne learning tasks\, by being more robust to changes that occur in real wor
 ld datasets?This is but one example of the open issues in current AI resea
 rch\, and with the constant stream of talented young scientists flocking i
 nto machine learning\, significant developments are to be expected. We wil
 l discuss how Europe can partake in these developments by playing an activ
 e role in public AI research. AI technologies have the potential to improv
 e our lives. The development is still in its infancy\, and we should ensur
 e that the highest level of research in this field will continue to be per
 formed in the open societies of Europe.Bernhard Schölkopf's scientific in
 terests are in machine learning and causal inference. He has applied his m
 ethods to a number of different fields\, ranging from biomedical problems 
 to computational photography and astronomy. Bernhard has researched at AT&
 T Bell Labs\, at GMD FIRST\, Berlin\, and at Microsoft Research Cambridge\
 , UK\, before becoming a Max Planck director in 2001. He is a member of th
 e German Academy of Sciences (Leopoldina)\, has received the J.K. Aggarwal
  Prize of the International Association for Pattern Recognition\, the Acad
 emy Prize of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities\, t
 he Royal Society Milner Award\, and is an Amazon Distinguished Scholar. T
 hursday\, June 6\, 2019\,  6 – 7 pmRaiffeisen Lecture Hall\, IST Austri
 a\, KlosterneuburgThis lecture is jointly organized by the Austrian Academ
 y of Sciences (ÖAW) and IST Austria.Please register below!Free shuttle b
 uses are provided to/from campus:The regular IST shuttle bus #142 will dep
 art from U4 Heiligenstadt/public bus stop at 5:03 pm and 5:33 pm. An extra
  IST shuttle bus has been organized and will depart from Schwedenplatz/nig
 ht bus stop at 5 pm.The IST shuttle bus #142 returning to Vienna will depa
 rt at 7:40 pm. An extra shuttle returning to Schwedenplatz will depart at 
 8 pm.
LOCATION:Raiffeisen Lecture Hall\, ISTA
ORGANIZER:magdalena.steinrueck@ist.ac.at
SUMMARY:Bernhard Schölkopf: Can Europe catch up in artificial intelligence
 ?
URL:https://talks-calendar.ista.ac.at/events/1882
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