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SUMMARY:The Margaret Boden Lecture. Abstraction and Analogy: The Keys to R
 obust AI - Professor Melanie Mitchell
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DESCRIPTION:"What is Abstract thinking\, and why can't AI do it?" While AI
  has made dramatic progress over the last decade in areas such as vision\,
  language processing\, and robotics\, current AI systems still lack key as
 pects of human intelligence. In this lecture\, Melanie will argue that the
  inability to form conceptual abstractions—and to make abstraction-drive
 n analogies—is a primary source of brittleness and unreliability in stat
 e-of-the-art AI systems. She will reflect on the role played by abstractio
 n at all levels of intelligence and on the prospects for developing AI sys
 tems with humanlike abilities for abstract reasoning and analogy.\n\nMelan
 ie Mitchell is Professor at the Santa Fe Institute. Her current research f
 ocuses on conceptual abstraction and analogy-making in artificial intellig
 ence systems. Melanie is the author or editor of six books and numerous sc
 holarly papers in the fields of artificial intelligence\, cognitive scienc
 e\, and complex systems. Her 2009 book Complexity: A Guided Tour (Oxford U
 niversity Press) won the 2010 Phi Beta Kappa Science Book Award\, and her 
 2019 book Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans (Farrar\, S
 traus\, and Giroux) has been shortlisted for the 2023 Cosmos Prize for Sci
 entific Writing. Melanie is the recipient of the Distinguished Cognitive S
 cientist Award from UC Merced and the Herbert A. Simon Award of the Intern
 ational Conference on Complex Systems\n \nShe will be joined by two respon
 dents\, who'll offer thoughts on the talk and then the Q&A will be open to
  the floor!\n \nAttendance is free\, both in person at the Cambridge Union
  and Online. Doors open at 5pm and the event will start at 5.30pm. \n \nTi
 ckets available at: \nhttps://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/abstraction-and-analo
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LOCATION:Debating Chamber\, The Cambridge Union Society
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