Neil Lawrence | The Atomic Human: What Makes Us Unique in the Age of AI | Talks at Google

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Renowned computer scientist, Neil Lawrence, joins us to discuss his book The Atomic Human: What Makes Us Unique in the Age of AI, which reveals the technical origins, capabilities and limitations of AI systems, and how they should be wielded – not just by the experts, but ordinary people. Get the book here: https://goo.gle/4cLfQXQ. Neil Lawrence is the inaugural DeepMind Professor of Machine Learning at the University of Cambridge where he leads the University’s flagship mission on AI, AI@Cam. He has been working on machine learning models for over 25 years. Neil returned to academia in 2019 after three years as Director of Machine Learning at Amazon. His main interest is the interaction of machine learning with the real world. This interest was triggered by deploying machine learning in the African context, where ‘end-to-end’ solutions are normally required. This has inspired new research directions at the interface of machine learning and systems research, and is funded by a Senior AI Fellowship from the Alan Turing Institute. Neil is also visiting Professor at the University of Sheffield and the co-host of Talking Machines. Moderated by Zoubin Ghahramani.