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2020 K. D. Irani Memorial Lecture Series

Saturday, December 19, 2020 @ 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm

The 2020 K. D. Irani Memorial Lecture Series will be held virtually over ZOOM on Saturday December 19, at 1:00 PM EST (10 AM Pacific | 6 PM London | 9:30 PM Tehran | 11 PM Karachi | 11:30 PM Bombay).

This annual event organized by ZAGNY, commemorates the life and work of our beloved Prof. Irani with talks on topics that were close to his heart.

ZAGNY is extremely proud to have one of our very own youth, present this year.

Title

What Artificial Intelligence Can Teach Us About the Human Mind.

Abstract

In nearly every social interaction, people make psychological inferences about others. Across multiple domains (e.g., predicting what a new person is like, how others perceive someone, what an individual wants), I show that computers can now do this as well, often even more accurately than people can. I examine how such developments can advance our understanding of the human mind. Finally, I explore whether it may now be possible to use the superhuman accuracy of artificial intelligence to improve our own human abilities.

About The Speaker: Poruz Khambatta
Poruz Khambatta is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the UCLA Anderson School of Management. He uses tools from psychology and artificial intelligence to shed light on how people form judgments. His research has been published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Proceedings of the Association for Computing Machinery, and the Journal of Experimental Psychology: General and has been featured on CNN, ABC, FOX, and NPR. Poruz holds a B.A. from UC Berkeley (Cognitive Science) and a Ph.D. from the Stanford University Graduate School of Business (Organizational Behavior).

Poruz has been involved with ZAGNY from an early age and is very thankful for those experiences. As a child, he attended classes at ZAGNY and later had the opportunity to pass on these lessons to the next generation of students. He has also helped perform multiple ceremonies as a Navar-Murtab and participated in numerous Zoroastrian events.

Details

Date:
Saturday, December 19, 2020
Time:
1:00 pm - 3:00 pm

Organizer

ZAGNY
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Venue

Virtual on ZOOM