报告题目：Origins of Artificial Intelligence
嘉宾简介：Thomas Sargent is the William R. Berkley Professor of Economics and Business at New York University. He was awarded the 2011 Nobel Prize in Economics, shared with Princeton University's Christopher Sims, for his empirical research on cause and effect in the macroeconomy.
Professor Sargent was a Professor of Economics at the University of Minnesota from 1975 to 1987, the David Rockefeller Professor at the University of Chicago from 1992 to 1998 and the Donald Lucas Professor of Economics at Stanford University from 1998 to 2002. He has been a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution since 1987.Professor Sargent earned his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1968. He was a university medalist as Most Distinguished Scholar in the Class of 1964 and won the Nemmers Prize in Economics in 1997.
Professor Sargent was elected a Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, both in 1983. He is past president of the Econometric Society, the American Economic Association and the Society for Economic Dynamics.
Professor Sargent specializes in the fields of macroeconomics, monetary economics and time series econometrics. He has developed methods for examining the relationship between policy and economics and has shown how the effects of the permanent restructuring of economic policy can be analyzed and how households and businesses have adjusted their expectations to match economic development.
报告题目：To begin, I'll describe some limits that cognitive scientists tell us about human intelligence and how humans have nevertheless invented artificial intelligence and machine learning. I'll explore the paradoxical situation that the tools that data scientists have used to develop artificial intelligence are about subjects in which we humans have hard-wired cognitive challenges that mislead us. I'll do this by giving some very old examples of "AI", discuss some new ones, and make some guesses about prospective applications, especially for economists and other social scientists.
报告时间：2025年11月11日(周二)，16:30-18:00
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