Minds or Mirrors?: Understanding Generative AI without the Hype

General interest seminar

Minds or Mirrors?: Understanding Generative AI without the Hype

  • Event time: 5:00pm until 6:00pm
  • Event date: 16th January 2025
  • Speaker: Prof Shannon Vallor (Edinburgh Futures Institute)
  • Location: Elm Lecture Theatre, Nucleus Building, King's Buildings

Event details

All students and staff welcome.

Speaker

Professor Shannon Vallor of the Edinburgh Futures Institute.

Professor Vallor serves as the Institute's Director of the Centre for Technomoral Futures and is Programme Director for the MSc in Data and AI Ethics. She holds the Baillie Gifford Chair in the Ethics of Data and Artificial Intelligence in the University of Edinburgh’s Department of Philosophy. 

Refreshments

Meet at 16.30 in the Nucleus Building foyer for tea and cakes prior to the talk.

About General interest seminars

Our General Interest Seminars are an opportunity for distinguished speakers to present new research in physics and related areas. The material presented is suitable for undergraduate level upwards and all members of the School are welcome to attend..

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