Please join us on Friday, March 1 at 7:00 pm to celebrate the legacy of the Club's original benefactor, Henry Chapman. You're cordially invited to an insightful presentation on Artificial Intelligence, where Professor Anna Feldman of Montclair State university will delve into the transformative power of Generative AI in shaping the future. Join us for an engaging session exploring the latest advancements and practical applications of this cutting-edge technology.  Light refreshments and wine are included.

Generative AI represents a groundbreaking shift in artificial intelligence. It goes beyond simply predicting or classifying things. Instead, it learns the underlying patterns and structures in data to create entirely new content, mirroring human creativity. While ChatGPT is a well-known example of text-generating AI, this field is much broader. Generative AI now produces captivating images, videos, speech, music, and even virtual worlds. Yet, alongside its remarkable abilities, ethical concerns arise. Questions about ownership, authenticity, and the potential misuse of synthesized content demand careful consideration.  In this talk, Anna Feldman will provide a brief overview of AI's history, explain how generative AI works, and showcase some of its impressive creations. She will also explore the potential for humans and machines to collaborate in groundbreaking ways while touching upon the ethical challenges this field presents.

Free for Associate Members

$15/Members, $25/Non-Members

Anna Feldman is a professor of Linguistics and Computer Science at Montclair State University. She earned her Ph.D. in Computational Linguistics from The Ohio State University and her undergraduate degrees in Linguistics and East-Asian Studies from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Her recent collaborative efforts include projects with ETS and the Center for Healthy Aging at Rutgers University. She is the first author of A Resource-light Approach to Morpho-syntactic Tagging(Brill). Feldman's latest projects involve the computational processing of figurative language and Internet censorship. A recipient of nine NSF awards, her work has also been supported by the Department of Defense and the Army Research Lab. She co-organizes the annual workshop on Natural Language Processing for Internet Freedom (NLP4IF) — Censorship, Disinformation, and Propaganda (http://www.netcopia.net/nlp4if/), and a series of workshops on figurative language processing (https://sites.google.com/view/figlang2024). At Montclair, she directs the Natural Language Processing (NLP) Research Lab and chairs the Linguistics Department. For more information about her lab, visit https://sites.google.com/view/montclairnlplab/. She resides in Glen Ridge.

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