From lfthomps at uw.edu Thu Sep 28 20:51:13 2023 From: lfthomps at uw.edu (Lowell F. Thompson) Date: Thu Mar 7 20:17:34 2024 Subject: [Amath-seminars] Next Boeing Speaker: Professor Michael Jordan from UC Berkeley Message-ID: Hi all, Our next Boeing Colloquium, presented by Professor Michael Jordan of the University of California, Berkeley ( https://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Faculty/Homepages/jordan.html) will be held next Thursday, October 5 at 4:00pm in SMI 205. Title: An Alternative View on AI: Collaborative Learning, Incentives, and Social Welfare Abstract: Artificial intelligence (AI) has focused on a paradigm in which intelligence inheres in a single, autonomous agent. Social issues are entirely secondary in this paradigm. When AI systems are deployed in social contexts, however, the overall design of such systems is often naive---a centralized entity provides services to passive agents and reaps the rewards. Such a paradigm need not be the dominant paradigm for information technology. In a broader framing, agents are active, they are cooperative, and they wish to obtain value from their participation in learning-based systems. Agents may supply data and other resources to the system, only if it is in their interest to do so. Critically, intelligence inheres as much in the overall system as it does in individual agents, be they humans or computers. This is a perspective familiar in the social sciences, and a key theme in my work is that of bringing economics into contact with foundational issues in computing and data sciences. I'll emphasize some of the mathematical challenges that arise at this tripartite interface. Please don't hesitate to contact me if you have any questions. Thanks, Lowell -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: