Guest Lecture: Professor Risto Miikkulainen (The University of Texas at Austin and Cognizant Technology Solutions), Creative AI through Evolutionary Computation

Professor Risto Miikkulainen (https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/risto) will give a guest lecture on Monday 27 May at 10 am in Room B120 at Exactum (Pietari Kalmin katu 5). The lecture is open to the public.

Abstract: Last decade has seen tremendous progress in Artificial Intelligence (AI). AI is now in the real world, powering applications that have a large practical impact. Most of it is based on modeling what is already known, e.g. predicting what the right classification of an image or a language sequence might be.  The next step for AI is machine creativity, e.g. designing engineering solutions that are more complex, perform better, or at a lower cost than existing solutions. Evolutionary computation is likely to play a central role in future of such AI.  I will review several recent techniques and applications where evolutionary creativity improves upon best human solutions, including designing neural network architectures, web interfaces, and growth recipes for agriculture.


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