VIDEO: The future of artificial intelligence from Dawn or Doom speaker Jennifer Neville

January 6, 2017

Jennifer Neville, associate professor of computer science and statistics, in Lawson Computer Science Building. (Purdue University photo/Mark Simons)

10/03/2016 |

When Google’s Alpha Go — the artificial intelligence created to play the complex board game Go — beat a professional player for the first time earlier this spring, it was heralded as a notable achievement for the AI field.

Jennifer Neville, associate professor and Miller Family Chair of Computer Science and Statistics, used those two events to highlight the difficulty that remains in creating truly intelligent artificial intelligence systems as part of her Dawn or Doom ’16 presentation, “AI-Easy vs. AI-Hard,” in October. Watch the video. 

Above: Jennifer Neville, associate professor of computer science and statistics, in Lawson Computer Science Building. (Purdue University photo/Mark Simons)