活动预告｜图灵奖得主对话薛澜：AI时代，从“可教育性”理解人类独特性 On Educability

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普林斯顿—耶鲁

“相约周末”品读汇

Princeton-Yale Ideas Series

The Importance of Being Educable

人工智能与人类的“可教育性”

This talk is part of the Princeton-Yale Ideas Series.

本活动为普林斯顿大学出版社（PUP）与耶鲁北京中心（YCB）联合举办的普林斯顿-耶鲁“相约周末”品读汇系列讲座。

活动概要

The Event

We are at a crossroads in history. If we hope to share our planet successfully with one another and the AI systems we are creating, we must reflect on who we are, how we got here, and where we are heading.The Importance of Being Educableputs forward a provocative new exploration of the extraordinary facility of humans to absorb and apply knowledge. The remarkable “educability” of the human brain can be understood as an information processing ability. It sets our species apart, enables the civilization we have, and gives us the power and potential to set our planet on a steady course. Yet it comes hand in hand with an insidious weakness. While we can readily absorb entire systems of thought about worlds of experience beyond our own, we struggle to judge correctly what information we should trust.

In this visionary book, Leslie Valiant, a Turing Award recipient and computer scientist, argues that understanding the nature of our own educability is crucial to safeguarding our future. After breaking down how we process information to learn and apply knowledge, and drawing comparisons with other animals and AI systems, he explains why education should be humankind’s central preoccupation.

On the morning of July 20, Leslie Valiant will have an offline discussion with Lan Xue, Dean of Schwarzman College at Tsinghua University, to explore the importance of human "educability" in the era of AI.

人工智能技术的发展引发了诸多忧虑，人们担心，某一天AI会比人类更加“智能”。然而，“智能”这一概念究竟是什么？它能代表人类的本质独特性吗？在The Importance of Being Educable一书中，作为图灵奖获得者和计算机科学家的Leslie Valiant对此进行了反思。作者提出，人类大脑卓越的“可教育性”，作为一种信息处理能力，使人类物种与众不同。这种独特的能力一直是人类成就和文明的基础，尽管在判断信息可信任性方面存在挑战，这种能力仍然赋予了我们引导世界沿稳定轨道行进的力量。在人工智能技术迅速发展的当下，要捍卫人类共同的未来，必须重视和完善教育系统，更好地发挥可教育性的潜能。

7月20日上午10点，本书作者Leslie Valiant将与清华大学苏世民书院院长薛澜在耶鲁北京中心展开线下对谈，共同探在“人工智能”时代，人类“可教育性”的重要性。

对话嘉宾

Speakers

Leslie Valiant

T. Jefferson Coolidge Professor of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics, Harvard University

哈佛大学杰斐逊柯立芝计算机科学与应用数学教授

Leslie Valiant is the T. Jefferson Coolidge Professor of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics at Harvard University, and a recipient of the Turing Award and the Nevanlinna Prize for his foundational contributions to machine learning and computer science. He is the author of Probably Approximately Correct and Circuits of the Mind.

Leslie Valiant现为哈佛大学杰斐逊柯立芝计算机科学与应用数学教授。他因对机器学习和计算机科学的基础性贡献而获得图灵奖和内万林纳奖。他的著作包括Probably Approximately Correct和Circuits of the Mind。

Lan Xue 薛澜

Dean, Schwarzman College, Tsinghua University

清华大学苏世民书院院长

Lan Xue is a Distinguished Professor of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences at Tsinghua University, where he also serves as the Director of the Institute for AI International Governance, Director of the China Institute for Science and Technology Policy, and Co-Director of the Global Institute for SDGs.

薛澜，清华大学苏世民书院院长，博士生导师，清华大学文科资深教授。他的研究领域包括公共政策与公共管理，科技创新政策，危机管理及全球治理。他同时兼任清华大学人工智能国际治理研究院院长、中国科技政策研究中心主任和全球可持续发展研究院联席院长等。

活动信息

Participation

Language 活动语言

The event will be in English

活动语言为英文

Time 时间

Saturday, July 20, 2024

2024年7月20日，星期六

Registration/注册

9:30 am - 10:00 am

Presentation and Commentary/讲座与点评

10:00 am - 11:05 am

Q&A/问答

11:05 am - 11:30 am

Book Signing/现场签售

11:30 am - 12:00 pm

Location 地址

Yale Center Beijing

耶鲁北京中心

36th Floor

Tower B of IFC Building

8 Jianguomenwai Avenue

Chaoyang District, Beijing

(Yong'anli Subway Station, Exit C)

北京市朝阳区

建国门外大街8号

国际财源中心B座36层

（永安里地铁站C出口）

Registration 报名

Ticket/门票:

Free for students and faculty (subject to approval); RMB 30 for regular admission.

在校生与教师免费参与（需经审核）；普通门票30元。