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Machines Like Us with Ron Brachman
Despite an enormous amount of recent success, systems based on Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology have been seen to make puzzling, sometimes disastrous blunders—mistakes that would not be made by humans using simple common sense. Without this crucial capability, current AI systems really can’t be trusted. So what would it take to imbue a machine with good common sense? This is the fundamental question posed by AI experts Ron Brachman, Director of the Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute and professor of computer science, and his coauthor Hector Levesque in their new book Machines Like Us: Toward AI with Common Sense (MIT Press, 2022). In a live Chats in the Stacks book talk, Brachman will discuss how AI has thus far tended to focus on specialized expertise instead of building more pragmatic, everyday reasoning, and how learning from the mechanisms of human common sense can help create more trustworthy and effective AI in the future.
This talk is hosted by the Management Library.
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Speaker Bio
Ron Brachman is the Director of the Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute and a Professor of Computer Science at Cornell University. He is responsible for the oversight of all Institute activities and programs, continuing to develop its vision and strategy and grow it into a completely new role model of innovation for graduate education, while training new leaders who use deep science to change the world.
Ron received his B.S.E.E. from Princeton University (1971), from which he graduated Summa Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa. He was captain of the Heavyweight Crew his senior year. He received his S.M. (1972) and Ph.D. (1977) degrees in Applied Mathematics from Harvard University. His research specialization was Artificial Intelligence, specifically, Knowledge Representation and Reasoning, an area in which he went on to become a world-renowned authority, authoring dozens of highly-cited research papers, creating the new field of Description Logics, and co-authoring a leading textbook.
Before coming to Cornell Tech, Ron had an outstanding career in research and research leadership at world-leading institutions like Bell Labs, AT&T Labs, DARPA, and Yahoo Labs – at these institutions he was responsible for recruiting world-class research teams and creating and leading innovative research and academic relationship programs. Ron has served as President of AAAI and currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Computing Research Association. He is a Fellow of ACM, IEEE, and AAAI.