Science & Cocktails is proud to announce a new episode with Melanie Mitchell, Professor at the Santa Fe Institute, and author of the book Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans. The event will feature our signature cocktails and will be held in English, with live music by Isogenic, playing expansive synthscapes.

Tickets:

Seated tickets are paid. Standing tickets are free and valid until 8pm. This means that you should enter before 8pm and can stay the entire event. After 8pm we let people in on a first come, first served basis.

How do current-day AI systems like ChatGPT work? How do we know how smart these systems are? How close are we to machines with “human-level” intelligence, or “AGI”? What benefits to society can we expect from AI? What dangers do present and future AI systems pose?

AI is all around us—recognizing our faces in photos, transcribing our speech, constructing our news feeds, answering our questions, writing our essays, and much more. But rapidly improving AI is poised to play a much bigger role in all of our lives. In this episode, Melanie will describe how current-day AI works, its turbulent history, how “intelligent” it really is, and what our expectations—and concerns—about its near-term and long-term prospects should be.

Event held in English with the generous support of the Novo Nordisk Foundation. Photo by filedebop.