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Understanding the AI Revolution: The Roots of the Deep Learning Transformation. Professor Shalom Lappin
Centre for Human-Centred Computing
Date: 15 October 2024 Time: 18:00 - 19:30
Location: GO Jones Lecture Theatre, Queen Mary University of London, 327 Mile End Road London E1 4NS
The first of Professor Shalom Lappin's public lecture series where he will present the core ideas of his forthcoming book, Understanding Artificial Intelligence: Neither Catastrophe nor Redemption (Polity Books, 2025).
Lecture 1 - The Roots of the Deep Learning Transformation, 15 October 2024 - 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
In this talk, Prof. Shalom Lappin provides a brief history of AI, tracing its origins from the immediate postwar period through the fluctuations in funding and support during the latter part of the past century, leading up to the current era of transformers and Large Language Models. He examines the diversity of methods and concepts that shaped earlier work in the field and tracks the factors that led to the dominance of deep neural networks across various applications and developments. Prof. Lappin will also illustrate the range of deep learning applications that are transforming the world in which we work and live.
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