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The road to conscious machines: AI from Eliza to ChatGPT and beyond

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The road to conscious machines: AI from Eliza to ChatGPT and beyond

Will AI be the end of humanity? What really is machine learning? Join Michael Wooldridge, Head of the Department of Computer Science at the University of Oxford, as he brings a healthy injection of humility to an overhyped field and changes the prevailing narrative on AI. In this comprehensive talk, he reveals how these anxieties distract us from the more immediate risks that this transformative technology poses – from algorithmic bias to fake news. He also showed us how we often overlook the true life-changing potential of the field he loves. Make sure you stay tuned until the end,…

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