AIM-SI Tutorial
AIM-SI Tutorial Series in AI: Understanding Artificial Intelligence - Kevin Leyton-Brown
DATE: Tue, July 22, 2025 - 11:30 am
LOCATION: Michael Smith Laboratories, Room 102, 2185 East Mall
DETAILS
Join us for the next installment of the Faculty of Science AI-SI Summer Tutorial Series in AI: "Understanding Artificial Intelligence." These events are open to all Science faculty, postdoctoral fellows, and graduate students wishing to learn more about artificial intelligence and its potential applicability to their work.
Abstract:
Artificial intelligence is already moving from science fiction to reality, and Canadian scientists are leading the way—indeed, Canada was the first country in the world to develop a "national AI strategy". This broadly accessible talk by one of UBC's AI leaders will begin by describing the scientific journey that has brought us to this point. It will then offer an intuitive survey of the core ideas that make modern AI technologies work. Armed with this information, we'll consider some of the limitations of "frontier" AI systems that persist today. Finally, we'll investigate the likely impact of AI on our lives in the years to come, discussing jobs, impact on content creators, the future of education, human relationships, military use, climate, and more.
Bio:
Kevin Leyton-Brown is a professor of Computer Science and a Distinguished University Scholar at the University of British Columbia. He holds a Canada CIFAR AI Chair at the Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute and is an associate member of the Vancouver School of Economics. He studies artificial intelligence and machine learning with a focus on connections both to microeconomic theory and to the design of algorithms for hard combinatorial problems. He is the Director of UBC's Center for AI Decision-making and Action (http://caida.ubc.ca).
Please Register Here
These talks are an opportunity to hear from experts across the Faculty of Science who are working in different areas across the field of artificial intelligence. More events will be scheduled in the coming year, so please keep your eye on the CAIDA Events Page.