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Colloquium Coordinator: Demetris Zeinalipour
Distinguished FPAS Lecture Series: Artificial Intelligence and Artificial Ignorance, Prof. Georg Gottlob (University of Oxford, UK), Friday, December 08, 2023, 18:00-19:00 EET.
The Department of Computer Science at the University of Cyprus cordially invites you to the Distinguished FPAS Lecture Series entitled:
Artificial Intelligence and Artificial Ignorance
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Speaker: Prof. Georg Gottlob |
Abstract:
This presentation first delves into the division between the two primary branches of AI research: symbolic AI, which predominantly focuses on knowledge representation and logical reasoning, and sub-symbolic AI, primarily centered on machine learning employing neural networks. We will explore both the notable accomplishments and the challenges encountered in each of these approaches. We will provide instances where traditional deep learning encounters limitations, and we will elucidate significant obstacles in achieving automated symbolic reasoning.
We will then discuss the recent groundbreaking advancements in generative AI, driven by language models such as ChatGPT. We will showcase instances where these models excel and, conversely, where they exhibit shortcomings and produce erroneous information. We will identify and illustrate four key reasons for potential failures in language models, which include (i) information loss due to data compression, (ii) training bias, (iii) the incorporation of incorrect external data, and (iv) the misordering of results. Lastly, we will touch upon the Chat2Data project, which endeavors to leverage language models for the automated verification and enhancement of relational databases, all while mitigating the pitfalls mentioned earlier (i)-(iv).
Short Bio:
Georg Gottlob is a Royal Society Research Professor and a Professor of Informatics at Oxford University, and an Adjunct Professor at TU Wien. At Oxford he is a Fellow of St John's College. His interests include knowledge representation, logic and complexity, and database and Web querying. He has received various awards, among which the Wittgenstein Award (Austria) and the Ada Lovelace Medal (UK), and, jointly with co-authors the Alonzo Church Award. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society, of the Austrian and German National Academies of Science, and of the Academia Europaea. He was a founder of Lixto, a company specialised in semi-automatic web data extraction which was acquired by McKinsey in 2013. Gottlob was awarded an ERC Advanced Investigator's Grant for the project "DIADEM: Domain-centric Intelligent Automated Data Extraction Methodology". Based on the results of this project, he co-founded Wrapidity Ltd, a company that specialised in fully automated web data extraction, which was acquired in 2016 by Meltwater. He was also a co-founder of the currently active company DLVSystem and of DeepReason.AI Ltd, which is a second company recently acquired by Meltwater.
