Prof Max Tegmark, a renowned professor from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) will speak on the topic ‘Intelligible Intelligence’ tomorrow.
Presented by World Innovation Summit for Education (WISE) along with Qatar Computing Research Institute (QCRI), part of Hamad Bin Khailfa University (HBKU), the talk will take place at the Multipurpose Room of HBKU Research Complex at 11am.
Prof Tegmark will present recent technical research on Artificial Intelligence (AI) carried out in his group at MIT. He, in particular, will discuss ways of building AI-systems which are simpler yet equally powerful compared to current black-box neural networks.
Simpler models are often more trustworthy, precisely because they are more understandable. Prof Tegmark is a professor doing physics and AI research at MIT, and advocates for positive use of technology as president of the Future of Life Institute.
He is the author of over 250 publications as well as the New York Times bestsellers Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence and Our Mathematical Universe: My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality. 
His AI research focuses on intelligible intelligence. His work with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey on galaxy clustering shared the first prize in Science magazine’s ‘Breakthrough of the Year: 2003’.