What is AI really, and broadly, how does it work? What role does machine learning play and are there limitations to its capabilities? In fact, why do we even have AI? Without going into technical depths, Maarten Lamers discusses the why and how of AI.
Learning unlocks intelligence. And for long, learning was considered uniquely human, or animal, just as creativity. But machine learning artificial intelligence enables machines to create pictures more realistically than we can, to compose songs in mere seconds, and to write texts about any topic imaginable.
So, what is AI really, and broadly, how does it work? What role does machine learning play and are there limitations to its capabilities? In fact, why do we even have AI? Without going into technical depths, Maarten discusses the why and how of machine learning AI, and what it generally can and cannot do.
Maarten Lamers was elected by Vrij Nederland (2015) as one of the "most inspiring technologists, inventors and tinkerers in The Netherlands and his research typically approaches academia in a playful manner, both in subject and in method.
He believes that playfulness can be a valuable asset in academic work. Maarten is Assistant Professor and PhD at Leiden University and has a Master's degree in computer science from Utrecht University. ". He also gave a TEDx talk entitled "Academic Freedom for the Young" in which he argues that academic playfulness should be a student's right.
