Rebecca Willett, the Data Science Institute’s Faculty Director of AI, gave a public lecture at the National Museum of Mathematics highlighting core ideas underlying AI.
Earlier this month, Rebecca Willett, the Data Science Institute’s Faculty Director of AI, gave a public lecture at the National Museum of Mathematics as part of its Math Encounters series. Professor Willett’s lecture highlights some of the core mathematical ideas underlying AI, and explains why understanding these concepts will be critical to the future of artificial intelligence and machine learning.
Professor Willett also discusses the impacts of mathematics on AI applications, exploring the basics of learning, how Netflix decides what movie to recommend next, how OpenAI’s ChatGPT writes stories, how AI helps predict weather more accurately, and how math and statistics help protect fairness and privacy in AI systems.
Rebecca Willett is the Worah Family Professor in the Wallman Society of Fellows in the Departments of Statistics, Computer Science, and the College at the University of Chicago.
Watch the full lecture here.