Artificial Intelligence: Paradigm Shifts in an Era of Big Integration

Speaker:        Prof. Song-Chun ZHU
                University of California, Los Angeles

Title:          "Artificial Intelligence:
                 Paradigm Shifts in an Era of Big Integration"

Date:           Wednesday, 16 October 2019

Time:           3:00pm - 4:00pm

Venue:          Lecture Theater F (near lift no. 25/26), HKUST

Abstract:

The recent advances in computer vision, learning, and language have
inspired renewed interest in academics and the public for developing
general AI agents that are capable of communicating and collaborating with
humans. This talk will provide a brief overview of the current state of AI
research and a personal observation that AI is entering an era of big
integration embracing vision, language, cognition, learning, robotics, and
multi-agent systems. The endeavor calls for a unified framework for a wide
range of tasks. Then the talk will present some paradigm shifts in order
to reach this ambitious goal, for example, going from the current deep
learning paradigm of "big-data for small-task" to a new paradigm of
"small-data for big-task". The talk will also discuss the cognitive
architecture for human-machine communication and teaming, visual
commonsense reasoning, explainable AI to gain human trust, and the path
towards building a general AI platform and system.