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I like to welcome everybody to russia and eurasia seminar. We do it every two weeks. As you know, and today we, given the speaker we have and the topic hes going to deal with, we had the pleasure of welcoming cspan here, which is broadcasting this event, as far as i can tell, live on cspan two. Im charles gati. I organized the similars. I say very little because i want the speaker to have as much time as possible. Just to give you a little background, he comes from massachusetts. He went, studied soviet studies at harvard. Before that got his ba also in soviet studies and Political Science from tufts university, at harvard he studied with legendary adam alone, and that tufts with old friend of mine. He laughed washington after some 24 or 25 years, and now hes a professor at, in florida, at the program for human rights and diplomacy at Florida International university and moved, is shrouded in mystery because few people do that perhaps it will tell us, and also declassified information
Silence. Tomorrow night the author will be reading from his new novel. On tuesday poisener in chiefs author will be joining us. We will also have a talk on wednesday. We welcome the author of rebooting ai which argues a computer being a human in jeopardy doesnt signal that we are on the doorstep of fully Autonomous Cars or super intelligence machines. Taking inspiration from the human minds, the book explains if we need to advance Artificial Intelligence to the next level, if we are wise along the way, we wont need to worry about a future of machine overlords. Finally a book what tells us what ai is, what it is not and what it could become if were ambitious and creative enough. Its also been called an informed account. The founder and ceo of robust ai and founder and ceo of intelligence. Hes published in journals including science in nature. Hes the author of guitar zero and rebooting ai. Thank you. Thank you very much. [applause] uhoh, this is not good. Um, okay, maybe it will be all
Discussed. Then later Kelly Harding explores a link between mental and physical health. We are back live at the National Book festival. Were pleased to have join us now on our book tv set professor Thomas Malone of mit. Heres his most recent book. It is called superminds, the surprising power of people and Computers Thinking together. Before we get into the topic of the book, professor, what is it that you do at mit . Im a professor in the sloan school of management and director of the mit center for collective intelligence. Pleasure to be here. What kind of Management Training do you give at mit . I teach two main courses. One is an mba course on strategic organizational design, about how to organize companies in different situations, including Innovative New things like wikipedia, for instance. And the other is a leadership workshop where i talk about or help students learn about different capabilities for leadership. What is the collective intelligence senter . We study the kinds of
Computers and before we get into that the topic ofs the book. At the school of management midirector of the mit center for collective intelligence. Ou i teach two main courses on strategic organizational design in these different situations like wikipedia and then the workshop where i help students learn about the capabilities and with that collective Intelligence Center and of those things that i wrote about in my book that was in a very general way to act collectively so by that definition every company or nonprofit is a collective intelligence our market and community and democracy are all examples of intelligence so to flesh that out a little bit i talk about as collectively Intelligent Systems and that i realized a short way to say that was super mind how the hyper connectivity in 2019 changed quick. From my point of view that is a very important part of the super mind that is possible. Many people are overestimating Artificial Intelligence i think it will be very important but th