Symbolic artificial intelligence in the age of ChatGPT

SYMBOLIC ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN THE ERA OF CHATGPT

Professor Tommie Meyer, CAIR-UCT Chair in Artificial Intelligence, University of Cape Town

Monday 20 January  5.00 pm  COURSE FEES R110; Staff and students R55

Recent spectacular advances in Artificial Intelligence (AI) focus strongly on the sub-area of AI known as machine learning. This lecture will remind participants that there are several other sub-disciplines of AI, and that it is important for the field to maintain and grow expertise in all aspects of AI. The lecturer will then proceed to practise what he preaches by introducing Symbolic AI as one of the pillars of AI. The lecture will conclude with some suggestions on how Symbolic AI can benefit from research in machine learning, and vice versa.

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Professor Meyer is recognised as an international leader in Knowledge Representation and Reasoning and Artificial Intelligence, and is one of only three South African Computer Sci- entists to have been awarded an A rating by the NRF. He is the (co-)author of more than 200 peer-reviewed research outputs (journal papers, book chapters, and papers in conference and workshop proceedings). He has published in all the top journals and conferences in his area of expertise. He has overseen 7 postdoctoral fellowships, and supervised 7 PhD students and 20 Master’s students to completion. He is currently supervising 6 PhD students and 9 Master’s students. He has been on the examination committee of 31 postgraduate students. He is regularly consulted by the media on matters related to Artificial Intelligence.