The AI salon is a semi-monthly gathering of the Stanford AI lab to discuss questions that go beyond the day-to-day research in AI. It is held in the style of 18th century French enlightenment-era salons, with no electronics, no whiteboard presentations, and an hourglass to keep time. The goal is to bring everyone together twice a month to contemplate the future of a fast-moving field. Past topics have included the ethics of autonomous driving, the role of theory in robotics, and intelligence augmentation. (Unless it is otherwise noted, AI Salon is only for current AI Lab members and their invited guests.)
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Date
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Title
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Speaker
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| 03/21/2014 | Has IBM’s Watson driven forward research or was it primarily an engineering accomplishment? | |
| 04/11/2014 | Are we overfitting to single-query datasets? | (Gabor Angeli & Olga Russakovsky) |
| 04/25/2014 | Artificial Intelligence & Intelligence Augmentation | (John Markoff & Arun Chaganty) |
| 05/16/2014 | Is interaction with the physical world necessary to acquire intelligence? | (David Held & Oussama Khatib) |
| 05/30/2014 | AI & Neuroscience | (Michelle Green & Ben Poole) |
| 06/13/2014 | AI in Movies | (Andrej Karpathy & Vivek Srikumar) |
| 09/26/2014 | Machine Learning vs. Statistics | (Will Fithian & Percy Liang) |
| 10/10/2014 | What should theory look like to be useful for robotics? | (Leslie Kaelbling & Arun Chaganty) |
| 10/17/2014 | Phonemes and parts of speech: Are categories and symbolic structures a fundamental fact of language or fantasy of linguists? | (Chris Manning & Andrew Ng) |
| 11/07/2014 | The Language of Food | (Dan Jurafsky) |
| 11/21/2014 | The Ethics of Autonomous Driving | (Silvio Savarese & Christian Gerdes) |
| 12/05/2014 | The End of Determinism | (Stefano Ermon & Alex Ratner) |
| 01/23/2015 | Using neuroscience to build an AI | (Jeff Hawkins and Surya Ganguli) |
| 02/06/2015 | The Turing Test | (Will Hamilton and Fei-Fei Li) |
| 02/20/2015 | Robotics in the Air and Space | (Mykel Kochenderfer & Marco Pavone) |
| 03/06/2015 | Robotics in the Air: Part II | (Mykel Kochenderfer) |
| 03/20/2015 | AI100 Initiative and the Future of AI | (Eric Horvitz) |
| 04/07/2015 | Dangers of AI (attendance by invitation only) | (Elon Musk) |
| 04/17/2015 | Horizontal vs. Vertical Progress in AI | (Matt Ginsberg & Jacob Steinhardt) |
| 04/24/2015 | Our Filtered Lives | (Grace Muzny & Timnit Gebru) |
| 05/08/2015 | The History of AI | (Ed Feigenbaum & Angel Chang) |
| 05/15/2015 | The Future of Human Labor | (Michael Webb & Tudor Achim) |
| 10/02/2015 | AI’s Role in Human Disconnection | (Timnit Gebru & Serena Yeung) |
| 10/16/2015 | Trust in AI Techniques/Algorithms | (Maneesh Agarwala) |
| 10/30/2015 | TBD | (Nils Nilsson) |
| 11/06/2015 | TBD | (Sham Kakade) |
| 11/13/2015 | AI and Health Care | (David Sontag) |
| 12/04/2015 | AI Present and Future | (Jerry Kaplan & John Markoff) |