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UP hosts dinner for AIML Chief Scientist van den Hengel

| Written by Percy Dahe

“We can proactively and collaboratively decide a better path for all of us.” — Professor Anton van den Hengel, chief scientist of the Australian Institute for Machine Learning, University of Adelaide, and also the director of the AIML Centre for Augmented Reasoning
Photo by Kevin Roque, UPS-MCO.

 

University of the Philippines President Angelo Jimenez hosted a reception dinner for University of Adelaide Professor Anton van den Hengel, chief scientist of its Australian Institute for Machine Learning and also the director of the AIML Centre for Augmented Reasoning.

 

The event was held April 16 at the Executive House, UP Diliman.

 

UP President Angelo Jimenez declares, “If universities can lead the Filipino people in this new path … we can discover ourselves together with the rest of the world.”
Photo by Kevin Roque, UPS-MCO
UP Vice President for Research and Innovation Joel Joseph Marciano serves as emcee.
Photo by Kevin Roque, UPS-MCO
Professor Anton van den Hengel (seated, fifth from left), chief scientist of the Australian Institute for Machine Learning, University of Adelaide, and also the director of the AIML Centre for Augmented Reasoning and UP President Angelo Jimenez (to van den Hengel’s left) pose for a group photo with other UP System officials and faculty.
Photo by Kevin Roque, UPS-MCO

 

Earlier that day, van den Hengel delivered his lecture, “On the Evolution of Stochastic Parrots: On why the prevailing process of pushing increasingly large datasets through increasingly large computers won’t lead to AGI,” as the featured expert in the Distinguished Speaker Seminar of the UP Diliman Artificial Intelligence Program. 

 

In his welcome remarks at the reception, Jimenez postulated that AI is a global movement that should not be developed in isolation, underscoring the imperative of international collaboration. 

 

This resonated with van den Hengel, who then cited the aim of partnerships between and among AI knowledge institutions, which is “to step towards the process of middle powers choosing their own agenda in AI space.”

 

“Australia can’t do this alone. But we can do it together,” he added.