At NeurIPS, Melanie Mitchell Says AI Needs Better Tests

When people want a clear-eyed take on the state of artificial intelligence and what it all means, they tend to turn to Melanie Mitchell, a computer scientist and a professor at the Santa Fe Institute. Her 2019 book, Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans, helped define the modern conversation about what today’s AI systems can and can’t do.

Melanie Mitchell

Today at NeurIPS, the year’s biggest gathering of AI professionals, she gave a keynote titled “On the Science of ‘Alien…