Campus Lecture : Hiroaki Kitano
Event details
| Date | 24.01.2025 |
| Hour | 16:00 › 18:00 |
| Speaker | Hiroaki Kitano |
| Location | |
| Category | Conferences - Seminars |
| Event Language | English |
"Creating the Engine for Scientific Discovery with AI"
About the Campus Lecture
Dr. Hiroaki Kitano has been Sony Group CTO since 2022 and works with R&D organizations across Sony Group companies from Entertainment, Electronics and Semiconductors to develop new technology that empowers artists and creators create new worlds. Recently, in addition to AI driving productivity and creativity, Kitano sees the next frontier of AI in scientific discovery, where "AI Scientist" capable of making important scientific discoveries with a high degree of autonomy. In this talk Kitano will discuss how scientific discovery accompanied by technological breakthroughs have brought about revolutionary changes to our civilization over the years and how AI can accelerate such scientific research in the future. We are entering a new stage where AI itself is beginning to autonomously make significant scientific discoveries, moving beyond being merely a tool in scientific research. Whether such AI will possess human-like intelligence or evolve into an entirely new form of intelligence represents a significant turning point in science.
About Hiroaki Kitano
Hiroaki Kitano is Executive Deputy President and Chief Technology Officer of Sony Group Corporation, overseeing the R&D ecosystem across Sony’s diverse business domains including electronics, semiconductors, and entertainment.
He concurrently serves as Representative Director and President, Sony Research Inc. and Sony Computer Science Laboratories.
Kitano is the Founding President of the RoboCup Federation, served as president of IJCAI (2009-2011), and is a member of scientific advisory boards for numerous academic institutions, and a professor at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate School.
He is a recipient of the Nature Award for Creative Mentoring in Science in 2009 and a fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence
Registration opens soon
About the Campus Lecture
Dr. Hiroaki Kitano has been Sony Group CTO since 2022 and works with R&D organizations across Sony Group companies from Entertainment, Electronics and Semiconductors to develop new technology that empowers artists and creators create new worlds. Recently, in addition to AI driving productivity and creativity, Kitano sees the next frontier of AI in scientific discovery, where "AI Scientist" capable of making important scientific discoveries with a high degree of autonomy. In this talk Kitano will discuss how scientific discovery accompanied by technological breakthroughs have brought about revolutionary changes to our civilization over the years and how AI can accelerate such scientific research in the future. We are entering a new stage where AI itself is beginning to autonomously make significant scientific discoveries, moving beyond being merely a tool in scientific research. Whether such AI will possess human-like intelligence or evolve into an entirely new form of intelligence represents a significant turning point in science.
About Hiroaki Kitano
Hiroaki Kitano is Executive Deputy President and Chief Technology Officer of Sony Group Corporation, overseeing the R&D ecosystem across Sony’s diverse business domains including electronics, semiconductors, and entertainment.
He concurrently serves as Representative Director and President, Sony Research Inc. and Sony Computer Science Laboratories.
Kitano is the Founding President of the RoboCup Federation, served as president of IJCAI (2009-2011), and is a member of scientific advisory boards for numerous academic institutions, and a professor at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate School.
He is a recipient of the Nature Award for Creative Mentoring in Science in 2009 and a fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence
Registration opens soon
Practical information
- General public
- Registration required
Contact
- Mediacom & AI Center