October 2024 Duluth Lyceum, "Our Future with Artificial Intelligence."

Join us for a brief speaker presentation followed by facilitated community discussion on the monthly theme! This will be an opportunity to hear from local experts, discuss topics important to the Duluth community, and engage in a respectful facilitated dialogue where all perspectives are valued.

October: Our Future with Artificial Intelligence

Artificial intelligence is being employed in a myriad of ways. We are familiar with software that will write essays for us or search up information, but it’s also being used to conduct experiments, to create art for television, and many other things. Some have even proposed creating AI “companions” for the elderly. What will life look like with these new technologies? How should we think about them? How do we make sure we aren’t losing important human values to these new machines

Marat Bakpayev, Ph.D. will provide our thought starter for the evening.

Marat Bakpayev is an Associate Professor of Marketing and Marketing Department Head in the Labovitz School of Business and Economics at the University of Minnesota Duluth. Dr. Bakpayev is a graduate of Washington University in St. Louis and Neoma Business School, France.

Building upon research in robotics and human-robot interaction, he extended the main research stream into more general questions related to technology and consumer-technology interaction. More specifically, he investigates how new technologies impact consumer behavior. Such technologies use behavioral data and Artificial Intelligence (AI) for algorithm-based persuasion (algorithm-based communications, programmatic advertising, behavioral targeting, location-based advertising), user experience (virtual reality, augmented reality, mixed reality), social media, mobile apps, Internet of Things, and conversational agents (chatbots or virtual assistants).

Host or Publisher Duluth Lyceum