Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been transforming our lives for decades, but never has AI felt more ubiquitous than now. It seems as though not a week passes without yet another AI system overcoming an unprecedented hurdle or outperforming humans at their own game.
From SIRI to self-driving cars, artificial intelligence (AI) is progressing rapidly. While science fiction often portrays AI as robots with human-like characteristics, AI can encompass anything from Googles search algorithms to IBMs Watson to autonomous weapons.
We are not very far away from creating machines that can think and take decisions for themselves. It is not a question of if, but when?
Academic Conclave 2017, St. Stephen's College presents a series of talks and workshops revolving around this burning topic which has caught the imagination of many generations, like wildfire. The ultimate dream, to create a human-like creature, to become God.
Plenary Talk:
We present to you, a talk on Artificial Intelligence & the Future of Work, Health and Entertainment by Dr. Gautam Shroff, Vice President and Chief Scientist at Tata Consultancy Services and head of TCS Innovation Lab in Delhi. He has published over 30 research papers in the areas of computational mathematics, parallel computing and was awarded with the Young Scientist Award by the Department of Atomic Energy (Govt. Of India).
Lectures:
A talk on Machine Learning by Dr. Manik Varma who is a researcher at Microsoft Research India and an adjunct professor of Computer Science at IIT Delhi whose research interests lie in the areas of Machine Learning, Computational Advertising and Computer Vision. He is an alumnus.
A talk on Computer Vision by Dr. Lovekesh Vig, an alumnus of our college who leads the Deep Learning team at TCS Research where he works on applying deep models to problems in Computer Vision, NLP, Sensor Analytics and Cognitive Planning.
Workshops:
On Machine Learning, which is the science of getting computers to act without being explicitly programmed. In the past decade, machine learning has given us self-driving cars, practical speech recognition, effective web search, and a vastly improved understanding of the human genome. Machine learning is so pervasive today that you probably use it dozens of times a day without knowing it. Many researchers also think it is the best way to make progress towards human-level AI.
On Data Science, also known as data-driven science, which is an interdisciplinary field about scientific methods, processes and systems to extract knowledge or insights from data in various forms, either structured or unstructured.