Current AI large language models can answer a wide variety of questions on a wide variety of topics. They sometimes make mistakes, sometimes bad ones. What would it take to turn them into reliable, useful tutors for the next generation of school children and lifelong learners? Computer scientist and AI pioneer Peter Norvig will answer this and more during the next Frontiers of Science lecture.

This event is free to the public and RSVPs are not required, but encouraged, by November 5. Parking for this event is available in the parking lot east of the S.J. Quinney School of Law, or the overflow lot east of the Henry Eyring Building.

About our Speaker

Peter Norvig

Peter Norvig is a Distinguished Education Fellow at Stanford's Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence Institute and a researcher at Google Inc; previously he directed Google's core search algorithms group and Google's Research group. He was head of NASA Ames's Computational Sciences Division, where he was NASA's senior computer scientist and a recipient of NASA's Exceptional Achievement Award in 2001. He has taught at the University of Southern California, Stanford University, and the University of California at Berkeley, from which he received a Ph.D. in 1986 and the distinguished alumni award in 2006. He was co-teacher of an Artifical Intelligence class that signed up 160,000 students, helping to kick off the current round of massive open online classes. His publications include the books Data Science in Context, Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach (the leading textbook in the field), Paradigms of AI Programming: Case Studies in Common Lisp, Verbmobil: A Translation System for Face-to-Face Dialog, and Intelligent Help Systems for UNIX. He is also the author of the Gettysburg Powerpoint Presentation and the world's longest palindromic sentence. He is a fellow of the AAAI, ACM, California Academy of Science and American Academy of Arts & Sciences.