Is AI Magic or Ordinary Technology? — with Serge Belongie

​Is AI magical or ordinary technology? Who is arguing each position, and what can history teach us? This question impacts how technology leaders can most effectively put AI to work for them, viz., as a tool for augmentation or as a replacement for a human workforce. The eye-watering valuations of tech companies ride on the premise that AI is magic.

​Speaker: Serge Belongie — Professor & Director, University of Copenhagen / Pioneer Centre for AI. Leads Denmark's Pioneer Centre for AI; formerly Cornell Tech Associate Dean and UC San Diego professor, known for foundational work in object recognition and image segmentation (ICCV Helmholtz Prize, 2015) and co-founder of Digital Persona and Anchovi Labs.