From Counting to Intelligence: AI Version 3.0

We are thrilled to announce a special event:

From Counting to Intelligence: AI Version 3.0 (Dr. Patrick van der Smagt)

IMPORTANT NOTES:

• the event is NOT taking place in our usual venue at Praterinsel. You can see the location at the registration page below.
• replying to the Meetup.com event will NOT register you. You need to use the registration page: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/from-counting-to-intelligence-ai-version-30-dr-patrick-van-der-smagt-tickets-60026484832?fbclid=IwAR2arfW1DZtcMmLesZSaoNG-yrkBgLm8IWLGIqX8veZJNY3ltErUYkkK0CU

Description
Modern machine learning can use large annotated data sets to bring Artificial Intelligence quite a bit closer. What is behind these methods? Can they surpass human intelligence, or where do they fail? In this talk Dr. van der Smagt will give you his view on recent technical developments, and use that to discuss future expectations on Artificial Intelligence, ethics, and our societal expectations.

About the speaker
Patrick van der Smagt is director of the open-source Volkswagen Group AI Research Lab in Munich’s Volkswagen Data Lab focussing on probabilistic deep learning for time series modelling, optimal control, reinforcement learning, robotics, and quantum machine learning. He previously directed a lab as professor for machine learning and biomimetic robotics at the Technical University of Munich while leading the machine learning group at the research institute fortiss, and before founded and headed the Assistive Robotics and Bionics Lab at the DLR Oberpfaffenhofen. Quite a bit earlier, he did his PhD and MSc at Amsterdam’s universities. Besides publishing numerous papers and patents on machine learning, robotics, and motor control, he has won a number of awards, including the 2013 Helmholtz-Association Erwin Schrödinger Award, the 2014 King-Sun Fu Memorial Award, the 2013 Harvard Medical School/MGH Martin Research Prize, the 2018 Webit Best Implementation of AI Award, and best-paper awards at machine learning and robotics conferences and journals. Patrick reviews for governmental funding organisations and serve[ds] on conference and journal boards. He is founding chairman of a non-for-profit organisation for Assistive Robotics for tetraplegics and co-founder of various tech companies.