AI Without Illusions: Are We Really There?

Digital Transformation has become one of the most exciting buzz words in recent decade. It is now intertwined with more recent terms, such as data analytics, generative AI, Chat GPT, Agentic AI, AGI and more. Fascination with these ideas has reached an unprecedented level, permeating many different faucets of modern culture, including our daily business practices, social media, and private lives. Many of us genuinely believe that we have already achieved tremendous success of AI in these areas. Yet are we truly there? Are we sure that we have reached the maximum potential of what modern digital technology can offer? And what about healthcare? Can we also expect that the new AI era will also change what happens in one of the most important areas of our life? In this talk, Mikhail Golovnya presents a top-level overview of the various levels of modern data analytics and AI. He dissects what’s real, what’s achievable, and what’s illusory with the modern trends and advances in AI technology. 
From data collection to advanced data analytics, from laborious library searches to generative AI summaries, from job security to fears of losing it all, from science fiction to the metaphysical and ethical implications of our understanding of modern AI: these and other topics will be presented from a unique perspective of someone who has been actively involved at the frontier of data science and machine learning for many decades.