CANCELED: Exploring the Mind | Artificial Intelligence: How We Got Here, How It Works, and What It Might Mean for Our Understanding of the Human Mind

When

Monday March 10, 2025: 6:00pm to 7:30pm  Add to Calendar /   Add to Google Calendar

Where

Downtown Library: Lower Level Program Room

Description

Due to circumstances beyond our control, this event has been canceled. We are working to reschedule this event.

Can AI systems like ChatGPT help us understand the human mind, or are they "alien intelligences”—technological tools that leverage big data to imitate humans? Richard Lewis aims to answer this question, dispelling some common misconceptions about how these systems work along the way, and tracing the history of how AI arrived at this point (spoiler: it wasn't just a sudden development in the tech industry). He will argue that modern AI is far more than a tool. It is a source of stunning new scientific hypotheses about the nature of the human mind, and will revolutionize not just technology, but the psychological, cognitive, and brain sciences as well.

Richard Lewis is the John R. Anderson Collegiate Professor of Psychology, Linguistics, and Cognitive Science at the University of Michigan. The aim of Dr. Lewis's research is to develop computational theories of mind. His current work focuses on human language processing, human decision making, and reinforcement learning in artificial intelligence. He received his PhD in computer science from Carnegie Mellon University and has been on the faculty at Michigan for 25 years.

This event is in partnership with the Department of Psychology at the University of Michigan.