Human in the Data

Spotlight Series: Global Food Security and How We Feed Each Other

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Institute for Advanced Study, Northrop, and University Honors Program Present

Deepak Ray: Senior Research Scientist and Fellow, Institute on the Environment, University of Minnesota 
Valentine Cadieux: Professor of Environmental Studies and Anthropology and Director of the Center for Justice and Law, Hamline University

Moderated by Michael Corey: Geospatial, Technical and Data Lead, Mapping Prejudice

Human in the Data: Ece Kamar | The Real Promise of AI: How to Get AI-Human Collaboration to Work?

While many celebrated efforts in Artificial Intelligence aim at exceeding human performance, the real promise of AI in real-world domains, such as healthcare and law, hinges on developing systems that can successfully support human experts. In this talk, I'll share several directions of research we are pursuing towards effective human-AI partnership in the open world, including combining the complementary strengths of human and machine reasoning, addressing concerns around trust, transparency and reliability, and using AI to improve human engagement.