Future Talks

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Venue

We meet at The Winchester Club (SO23 7AB), which is the large white building at the back of the Worthy Lane Car Park. All talks begin at 7.30pm unless stated otherwise.

Our YouTube Channel has recordings of some past talks.

Monday 1st April
“GenAI / AI Chatbots: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly”
Professor Dan Remenyi

The concern around the world about the safety of AI is palpable. Some gurus have argued that AI will destroy the human race while other have, less dramatically, argued that it will disrupt major aspects of society. The concern was sufficient to cause the UK Government to call the World’s First Major Summit on Artificial Intelligence Safety. Hosted by UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak at the famous WW2 code breaking site of Bletchley Park, it brought together many of the world’s leaders concerned about the future of AI. According to Google’s Gen AI called Bard AI, the summit “made a number of significant achievements [sic] towards ensuring the safe and responsible development and use of AI”.

This talk reviews global thinking on a variety of user-related issues including the safety of Gen AI (or AI Chatbots as they used to be called). The good aspects of the technology refer to how it will benefit society; the bad aspects relate to the mistakes which the technology commonly makes; and the ugly refers to the use of the technology in the hands of malfeasants. It is now clear that the main imperative is to understand the technology and by so doing avoid the risks it presents.

It is now clear that the main imperative is to understand the technology and by so doing avoid the risks it presents.

Professor Dan Remenyi

Professor Dan Remenyi

Professor Dan Remenyi has had a special interest in AI for a number of decades and has closely watched how the technology has developed and been employed in various business, industrial and educational applications. Since the arrival of the Gen AI he has focused on researching their uses and abuses. For more than three decades, he has taught ICT management at various universities in the UK, Ireland, Sweden and South Africa. He has authored or co-authored more than 30 books and some 50 academically refereed papers. He is published in all 4 of the ‘A’ rated Journals in the United Kingdom in Information Systems Management. Some of his books have been translated into Chinese, Japanese and Romanian. He holds a B Soc Sc, an MBA and a PhD.

A photograph of a human hand holding a circle with a digital interface showing the various possible applications of Artificial Intelligence - email, chat, etc

Artwork credit: Thanakorn Lappattaranan via Vecteezy

Monday 20th May
“Does self-improvement really prevent dementia?”
Prof Klaus Ebmeier

Monday 3rd June
“Crayfish conservation across Hampshire & the Isle of Wight”
Dr Ben Rushbrook

Monday 1st July
TBC

Monday 5th August
“Oyster bed restoration in the Solent Seascape”
Eric Harris-Scott