Guest Speaker Series: Learning from AI, Dr. John Behrens, University of Notre Dame

Co-presented with our 
Office of Information Technology (OIT) Partners

Topic: Learning from AI: A field guide for new interactions with interns, paramours and agents
Speaker: Dr. John Behrens
Director, Technology and Digital Studies Program, and Idzik Computing and Digital Technologies Program

Wednesday, February 28
11:30 am – 1:00 pm,
Trinity Hall 105 and via Teams

In contrast to earlier computing paradigms, generative AI systems (such as ChatGPT) make computers perform human-like behavior at the behest of non-experts with only modest verbal proficiency. This democratization has brought widespread access and usefulness, along with a mix of confusion, mythology, apprehension, and hype.  This talk is a whirlwind tour of the logical bases of some of these systems, implications for the study and use of these systems, and examples of how these systems can be used.  We close with a discussion about how these probabilistic systems can inform our existing disciplines and how the vast majority of our existing disciplines can, and should, contribute to the use, understanding, and development of these systems.