“Now, AI is affecting office workers,and even affecting scientists. If you look at protein folding, the problem that I had, people were working on this. They have an established discipline, they have an annual conference, they have a competition every year to see where is the state of the Art. And they have all kinds of sophisticated ways of doing this. Comes AI and completely beats them. Completely. And the initial reaction of scientists is rejection, resentment, we don’t trust it. And you can look at history, some of the quotes that were said, it was really funny. And this happened in more than one discipline where AI took over from that. But eventually, people realize that if you can’t beat them, join them. And now everybody who does research in protein folding does AI. Computer Vision is a branch of AI. And so on. So because of this, Caltech has a program, an instructional program, to be able to teach research workers in different branches of science the practical aspects of AI that can help them in their work. Do you know what the program is jokingly dubbed? No scientist left behind. [Laughter]” Professor Yaser Abu-Mostafa, Caltech
ChatGPT has rocked the general public’s perception and expectations of artificial intelligence (AI). In this lecture, Abu-Mostafa will explain the science of AI in plain language and explore how the scientific details illustrate the risks and benefits of AI. Between the extremes of “AI will kill us all” and “AI will solve all our problems,” the science can help us identify what is realistic and what is speculative, and guide us in our planning, legislation, and investment in AI.