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SUMMARY:AI Center Seminar - AI Fundamentals series - Prof. Risto Miikkulai
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DESCRIPTION:Prof. Risto Miikkulainen\nThe talk is jointly organized by the
  Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and the EPFL AI Center.\n\nHosting p
 rofessor: Prof. Boi Faltings\n\nThe talk will be followed by a coffee sess
 ion. \n\nTitle\nDecision-Making: A Touchstone for AI Agents\n\nAbstract\n
 While Generative AI allows conversing with AI agents\, and deep learning m
 akes it possible to predict outcomes\, effective decision-making is still 
 an open challenge for AI. Multiple technologies may turn out useful: neuro
 evolution and surrogate modeling can discover creative solutions that woul
 d otherwise be missed\; semantic density and rule-set representations can 
 estimate confidence and make decisions explainable\; coordination framewor
 ks can leverage dynamic interactions in multiagent networks. I will review
  several such technologies and give examples in agriculture\, healthcare\,
  and design.\n\nBio\nRisto Miikkulainen is a Professor of Computer Science
  at the University of Texas at Austin and a VP of AI Research Cognizant AI
  Labs. He received an M.S. in Engineering from Helsinki University of Tech
 nology (now Aalto University) in 1986\, and a Ph.D. in Computer Science fr
 om UCLA in 1990.  His current research focuses on methods and application
 s of AI in decision-making\, particularly those based on neuroevolution an
 d generative AI\, as well as neural network models of natural language pro
 cessing and vision\; he is an author of over 500 articles in these researc
 h areas. At Cognizant\, and previously as a CTO of Sentient Technologies\,
  he is scaling up these approaches to real-world problems. Risto is an AAA
 I\, IEEE\, and INNS Fellow\; his work on neuroevolution has recently been 
 recognized with the IEEE CIS Evolutionary Computation Pioneer Award\, the 
 Gabor Award of the International Neural Network Society\, and Outstanding 
 Paper of the Decade Award of the International Society for Artificial Life
 .\n 
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