Keynote: AI is having its moment ... again

Room 1
09:00 - 10:00
(UTC+02

Talk (60 min)

Wednesday 
The current hype around AI can feel like something totally new, but it’s not the first time we’ve been here. In fact, this is the third “AI summer” in the past 70 years. Each one came with huge excitement, massive promises, and eventually, a reality check. By looking back at the early days of the Dartmouth Conference, the boom of expert systems, and our current era of deep learning, we can get a better sense of how we got here and where we might be headed.
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This talk takes a step back from the hype to explore the patterns that keep showing up in AI’s history. We’ll look at what technologies stuck around after each wave, how those breakthroughs shaped industries from gaming to defence to search, and what might actually last from today’s advances. AI’s history doesn’t repeat itself exactly, but it definitely rhymes.

Jodie Burchell

Dr. Jodie Burchell is the Developer Advocate in Data Science at JetBrains, and was previously a Lead Data Scientist at Verve Group Europe. She completed a PhD in clinical psychology and a postdoc in biostatistics, before leaving academia for a data science career. She has worked for 9 years as a data scientist in both Australia and Germany, developing a range of products including recommendation systems, analysis platforms, search engine improvements and audience profiling. She has held a broad range of responsibilities in her career, doing everything from data analytics to maintaining machine learning solutions in production. She is a long time content creator in data science, across conference and user group presentations, books, webinars, and posts on both her own and JetBrain's blogs.