Science & Cocktails in X31: The Past, Present, and Uncertain Future of Artificial Intelligence

Name: Science & Cocktails in X31: The Past, Present, and Uncertain Future of Artificial Intelligence
Start: 2025-05-13T19:00:00+02:00
Location: Den Grå Hal

Schedule

Tue, 13 May, 2025 at 07:00 pm

UTC+02:00

Location

Den Grå Hal | Copenhagen , SK

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.
What is the event about?
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.
More info: https://www.scienceandcocktails.org/en/events/copenhagen/the-past-present-and-uncertain-future-of-artificial-intelligence
About Melanie Mitchell
Melanie Mitchell is Professor at the Santa Fe Institute. Her current research focuses on conceptual abstraction and analogy-making in artificial intelligence systems. Melanie is the author or editor of six books and numerous scholarly papers in the fields of artificial intelligence, cognitive science, and complex systems. Her 2009 book Complexity: A Guided Tour (Oxford University Press) won the 2010 Phi Beta Kappa Science Book Award, and her 2019 book Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux) was shortlisted for the 2023 Cosmos Prize for Scientific Writing. She is co-host of the Santa Fe Institute podcast, “The Nature of Intelligence."
About Isogenic
A glimpse into Isogenic's sonic tapestry reveals a dynamic interplay between expansive synthscapes, crackling guitar granules, and rhythmic drumscapes that oscillate between frenzied storms and gentle breezes. The vocals, ethereal and fragile, rise to become muscular and resolute. It's a convergence where the alternative pop ethos meets the unbridled egoism inherent in rock music.