Adelaide Chapter

Artificial Intelligence by Tom Daly

April 12, 2018

Date/Time
Date(s) - 12/04/2018
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Location
Online

Categories

• Science

Most people have some awareness of artificial intelligence (AI), perhaps from Hollywood movies or news articles about driverless cars.  However, most people are not yet aware of the breadth of applications possible today, nor the stunning advances that have been made with AI in recent years.  Already there are a growing number of important ethical and practical implications arising from these current and continuing advances in AI; yet the general public is not involved, nor the Church and even governments are scrambling to catch-up.  This talk is part 1 of a 2-talk series on AI and will survey the current status of AI as well as near term advances. It will introduce and consider ethical questions such as: –

• What are the impacts for jobs in civil society in next few years and decades?
• What are the right and wrong uses of AI technology? For example, should we use AI robots to keep the elderly “company”?
• What happens when video and audio can be created by AI so well that real video/audio is indistinguishable from generated?
• What are the risks from our current and likely future reliance on AI technology?
• What conversations should we be having to care for each other as AI ushers in a huge increase in the pace of change?

Tom Daly is an IT professional, with over 30 years’ experience and is a graduate of the University of Adelaide. Tom moved with his young family to California in 1996 with Sun Microsystems where he worked on the Java programming language and all things internet and database. Tom was fortunate to bring his job back from California to Adelaide and “telecommutes” to Silicon Valley where he now works for Oracle Corporation (who purchased Sun in 2010). Tom currently works on various hi-tech projects mainly related to the Cloud and is well placed to research and understand the latest status and wide-ranging implications of AI. Tom has been asking tough questions of his Christian faith for many years now and is confident that the more scrutiny orthodox Christian faith is subjected to the more it provides a coherent (and breathtaking) worldview.