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SUMMARY:Who’s afraid of Artificial Intelligence?
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DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Sabyasachi Bhattacharya\n\nAbstract: Artificial Inte
 lligence\, “a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma\," has come t
 o represent the latest challenge to our civilization\, in both its speed a
 nd its impact. In this lecture on AI - using almost exclusively AI -  it 
 will take a historical view of massively disruptive technologies from the 
 past: (1) the printing press\, (2) the industrial revolution\, of which th
 e conflict between art and photography is an ‘illuminating example’ an
 d (3) playing the game of chess in recent times to illustrate the man-vers
 us-man-made machine paradigm. Finally\, it will attempt to look through th
 e crystal ball and make predictions about its short-time horizons and how 
 to “prepare” for things mostly unpredictable.\nAbout Speaker:\nProfess
 or Sabyasachi Bhattacharya is a physicist and works on dynamical aspects o
 f disordered\, soft and granular condensed matter systems. He was a Distin
 guished Professor at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) of 
 which he was also a former Director. He received his B.Sc. at the Presiden
 cy College\, Kolkata\, M.Sc. at the University of Delhi\, and his Ph.D. at
  Northwestern University\, all in Physics. He conducted post-doctoral rese
 arch at the National Magnet Laboratory at MIT and at the University of Chi
 cago as a James Franck Distinguished Fellow before joining the Exxon Corpo
 rate Research Laboratory. He subsequently worked at the NEC Research Insti
 tute at Princeton where he was an NEC Fellow and the Chair of the NEC Boar
 d of Fellows. He held the Jagadish Chandra Bose Distinguished University P
 rofessorship at Presidency University and the C.V. Raman University Profes
 sorship at the Ashoka University and was the Founding Director of a resear
 ch organization TCG-CREST in Kolkata. He is currently a Professor Emeritus
  at the TIFR. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and served b
 oth as its International Councillor\, as well as a member of its Committee
  of International Scientific Affairs (CISA).\nProfessor Bhattacharya recen
 tly served\, among other organizations\, on the Editorial Board of the Rep
 orts on Progress in Physics\, the Technology Advisory Council of British P
 etroleum\, the IIT-Council of the Ministry of Human Resource Development a
 nd the Council of IIT-Bombay and the Mentor Group of Presidency University
 \, Kolkata. He is a frequent visitor to the New York University\, the Univ
 ersity of Chicago\, the Cavendish Laboratory and the Trinity College\, Cam
 bridge.\n\nhttps://scitalks.tifr.res.in/event/9318/
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