Glimpsing our AI future - Howard Covington, The Alan Turing Institute
About the event
Right across the economy start-ups are using machine learning to disrupt incumbents. At the same time, incumbents are using machine learning and artificial intelligence to automate processes and increase productivity. China is challenging the US for AI supremacy. Self-driving cars may soon over-turn a century-old model of urban transport and disrupt the car and oil industries. Helped by AI and machine learning, start-ups are harnessing renewable energy to re-imagine and refashion basic industries and are employing bio-tech to redesign what we eat and how food is supplied, with the first lab-grown meat being served in a Michelin starred restaurant. Coming rapidly closer is the threat of climate disruption.
In this talk, founding Chair of The Alan Turing Institute Howard Covington will endeavour to grasp these dramatic changes to our world and discuss how the business and technology community can seize the opportunities they offer.
About the event
Howard’s first career was in the City as an investment banker and asset manager. His second career is in promoting mathematical sciences. He has been a trustee of the Science Museum and also chair of the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, the UK’s national maths research institute at Cambridge. He is the inaugural chair of The Alan Turing Institute. He is also vice-chair of ClientEarth, an environmental law firm.
This Turing Lecture will be hosted by the Institute's Managing Director for Innovation, Christine Foster.
About the Turing
The Alan Turing Institute, headquartered in the British Library, London, was created as the national institute for data science in 2015. In 2017, as a result of a government recommendation, we added artificial intelligence to our remit.
The Institute is named in honour of Alan Turing (23 June 1912 – 7 June 1954), whose pioneering work in theoretical and applied mathematics, engineering and computing are considered to be the key disciplines comprising the fields of data science and artificial intelligence.
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