Photo by Kevin Roque, UPS-MCO.
University of the Philippines President Angelo Jimenez hosted a reception dinner with Professor Anton van den Hengel, Chief Scientist of the Australian Institute for Machine Learning and Director of the AIML Center for Augmented Reasoning at the University of Adelaide.
The event was held on April 16th at the Executive House of UP Diliman.
Photo credit: UPS-MCO, Kevin Roque
Photo credit: UPS-MCO, Kevin Roque
Photo credit: UPS-MCO, Kevin Roque
Earlier in the day, van den Hengel delivered a talk as a featured expert at the UP Diliman Artificial Intelligence Program’s Distinguished Speakers Seminar entitled “On the evolution of stochastic parrots: why the common process of pushing increasingly larger datasets through increasingly larger computers does not lead to AGI.”
In his welcome remarks at the reception, Mr. Jimenez argued that AI is a global movement and should not develop in isolation, and emphasized the importance of international cooperation.
This resonated with Van den Hengel. He said the purpose of the partnership between and among AI knowledge institutions is “to take a step towards the process of middle powers choosing their own agendas in the field of AI.”
“Australia cannot achieve this alone, but together we can,” he added.
