Melanie Mitchell is a professor at the Santa Fe Institute. Her current research focuses on conceptual abstraction and analogy-making in humans and AI systems. Melanie is the author or editor of six books and numerous scholarly papers in the fields of artificial intelligence, cognitive science, and complex systems. Her book Complexity: A Guided Tour (Oxford University Press) won the 2010 Phi Beta Kappa Science Book Award and was named by Amazon.com as one of the 10 best science books of 2009. Her latest book, Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux), has been shortlisted for the 2023 Cosmos Prize for Scientific Writing. This event is open to the entire Sarah Lawrence community and the public.
In Conversation: Melanie Mitchell, Author of Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans, with President Cristle Collins Judd
Barbara Walters Campus Center BWCC Room B
Open to the public
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