Chris Summerfield – These Strange New Minds: How AI Learned To Talk And What It Means

AI is in the news daily, and yet very few of us understand how it is already impacting our lives, let alone what it may be able to do in the future. From neuroscientist and Research Director at the UK AI Safety Institute, Christopher Summerfield, comes a book which presents AI in language and concepts all of us can understand – and asks all the questions you will want answers to. Join us for a discussion about the very basis on which all our lives will continue to be built over the coming years.  

Chaired by Harry Pearson

Tickets £12/£10

“A brilliant guide to the most important technology of our times.” – Mustafa Suleyman, CEO of Microsoft AI & Cofounder of DeepMind

“By far the best guide to a newly emerging species with which we will share the planet for the foreseeable future.” – Stuart Russell, author of Human Compatible

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• Priority Booking for Festival Friends opens at 08.00 on Friday 7th of March. Tickets go on general sale from Monday 10th March.
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