Artificial intelligence is everywhere – powering news feeds, curating search results and invisibly steering our lives. We talk to it and, increasingly, it talks back. And sometimes its answers seem eerily smart… Until they don't. 

There is almost no field nowadays, where you are not exposed to hearing and talking about Artificial Intelligence and its wonders. Despite its defects, millions of dollars and an infinite amount of hype is being poured in AI. Enter Emmanuel Maggiori, AI veteran who comes to disillusion you about what machines are capable of. Uncovering unreasonable expectations, shady practices, and outright lies, he published the revealing book 'Smart Until It's Dumb' in 2023. Emmanuel's mission is to spread the word about the deceptively simple mechanisms behind AI's remarkable achievements and expose the industry's hidden truths.

Dr Emmanuel Maggiori is a London-based computer scientist, author and a 10-year AI industry insider. He has developed AI for a wide variety of applications, from extracting objects from satellite images to packaging holiday deals for millions of travelers every day. He's the author of the book Smart Until It's Dumb: Why artificial intelligence keeps making epic mistakes (and why the AI bubble will burst).  He studied software engineering in Argentina and then did a PhD at Inria, the French national IT research lab. He has worked as a data scientist in the travel sector, where he wrote algorithms you have most likely used yourself a few times. Since then, ha has been working independently as a software engineer and data scientist. 

The discussion’s moderator will be Borbála Hatházy, Project Manager of the international relations department at MCC. She holds an MA in International Relations and Diplomacy from the School of Oriental and African studies in London, and a BA in Chinese and English linguistics from Babes-Bolyai University.

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