How do people turn old memories into new ideas, and can AI do the same? Dr. Haixun Wang will explain how memory, imagination, and creativity connect, and where today's AI systems fall short of human originality.
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Have a question for Dr. Wang? Submit it below and three student volunteers will present a selection of community questions live during the talk.
The form below is optional and helps us understand who in the community is engaging with AI topics
This event is a partnership between Cary Library, the Youth STEAM Initiative (YSI), and UMass Boston. Our goal is to help promote the talk to the Lexington community in multiple languages, and to give the community a direct way to ask Dr. Wang a question. We'll collect question submissions through the form above, and three student volunteers will present a selection of the community's questions during the talk. The questions submitted, along with a short post-event reflection, will inform a joint report we plan to publish in the PEAAII ScholarWorks collection.
Dr. Haixun Wang is an ACM Fellow and IEEE Fellow, Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Data Engineering Bulletin, a VLDB board trustee, and an affiliate professor at the University of Washington. He currently serves as VP of Engineering and Head of AI at EvenUp, where he works on applying large language models to legal and medical document understanding. He previously held AI and applied science leadership roles at Instacart, WeWork, Amazon, and Meta, and was a researcher at Microsoft, Google, and IBM.
Organizing team: Stephen Yang, Juliana Yin, Zhengjia Yang, and Eric Gu
This project aims to engage the community in thoughtful conversations about AI and promote its responsible, informed, and positive use.
