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SUMMARY:Business Lecture: What next for AI and machine learning? - Speaker
  - Prof Neil Lawrence\, University of Cambridge
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CONTACT:Louise Rushworth
DESCRIPTION:Cambridge Network will welcome Prof Neil Lawrence from the Uni
 versity of Cambridge as a key speaker in April. Prof Lawrence recently lef
 t Amazon to join the University of Cambridge as the first DeepMind-funded 
 professor of machine learning.\n\nProfessor Neil Lawrence was quoted in a 
 recent BBC news article ‘Researchers: Are we on the cusp of an ‘AI win
 ter?’ which explored whether or not the AI industry was cooling off afte
 r much hype over the last 10 years. However\, he believes that AI is still
  very much still in the "wonder years". One of the avenues he seeks to exp
 lore in his new role is exploring machine learning approaches in Africa\, 
 which can have benefits in the developed world as well.\n\n“With data an
 d machine learning\, you can have a more advanced data infrastructure in A
 frica than in some developed countries\,” he said. “It’s rare in the
  UK or Europe that you’re asked to look at a machine learning problem fr
 om end to end\, but you can do that in Africa\, and it leads to better sol
 utions. That’s the kind of approach I want to take to machine learning i
 n my work at Cambridge.” \n\nOn his appointment he said “AI and machin
 e learning have the potential to reshape almost every aspect of our lives\
 , but we desperately need more machine learning specialists\, or else the 
 promise of AI will not be realised.”  DeepMind is an AI research company
  owned by Google which donated nearly £4m to Cambridge last year to fund 
 this new position and a series of PhD positions and masters places. Could 
 it be that the ‘20s will see a new phase in AI development?  \n \n\nAgen
 da\n\n6.00pm        Registration and networking over some refreshments\n6:
 30pm:       Speaker - Prof Neil Lawrence\, University of Cambridge\n8:00pm
         Further networking and a chance to follow up with the speaker\n8:3
 0pm        Event closes\n\nOpen to all members of the University free of c
 harge. \nPlease register online at https://www.cambridgenetwork.co.uk/civi
 crm/event/info?reset=1&id=27341 or email the organiser to attend. 
LOCATION:Lecture Theatre 1\, Cambridge University Computer Laboratory\, J 
 J Thompson Avenue\, Madingley Road\, Cambridge
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