SORS: "Can We Rely On AI?"
Channel: BSC CNS
Date: 05/02/2024

🗣Speaker: Desmond Higham. Professor of Numerical Analysis at the University of Edinburgh.

➡Over the last decade, adversarial attack algorithms have revealed instabilities in deep learning tools. These algorithms raise issues regarding safety, reliability and interpretability in artificial intelligence (AI); especially in high risk settings. At the heart of these issues is the concept of instability: extreme sensitivity of the output to changes in the input. From a practical perspective, there has been a war of escalation between those  developing attack and defence strategies. At a more theoretical level, researchers have also studied bigger picture questions concerning the existence and computability of successful attacks. I will present examples of attack algorithms in image classification and optical character recognition. I will also outline recent results on the overarching question of whether, under reasonable assumptions, it is inevitable that AI tools will be vulnerable to attack.

ℹFurther information here: https://www.bsc.es/research-and-development/research-seminars/sors-can-we-rely-ai