From: Mark Kurtz <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2018 13:11:31 -0500

Dear Colleagues,


I wanted to make you aware of the Fantastic Futures AI conference,
organized by the National Library of Norway and Stanford University
Libraries. The conference will be held in Oslo on Dec 5th.


Ruggero Gramatica, founder of Yewno, will be among the keynote speakers.


*FANTASTIC FUTURES*

*The National library of Norway and Stanford University Libraries’
AI-Conference in Oslo, Norway, *
*December 5th 2018*

Registration to the first major conference on artificial intelligence and
machine learning in the international library community is now open.

As more and more memory and knowledge institutions’ collections become
digital while continuing to expand, we are already observing significant
consequences for their upkeep. For the past two years the National library
of Norway has experimented with Machine Learning (ML) for library purposes,
named after the famous public librarian Nancy Pearl, our IA “Nancy” has
worked both with cataloging and analyzing parts of out collection.  Based
on a limited set of experiments, its already obvious that AI/ML represents
a new level in library development. We will present some of the results of
this work during the conference.

Some of the leading thinkers in the field will participate in the
conference, addressing both the opportunities and the challenges that the
AI revolution poses to the world in general, and to knowledge institutions
specifically, amongst them assistant professor, author and journalist
Meredith Broussard, who will talk about how AI not only helps us interpret
the world, but also misinterprets and brings bias to it, and CEO of Yewno,
Ruggero Gramatica, who will address the question of how AI/ML can help us
structure the information in the collection of libraries in new ways. A
series of organizations including the Danish library central and the oil
company Equinor, will share their experiences with Ai in analyzing big data
or structuring information.

Details regarding preliminary program and registration is available on this
website: www.nb.no/fantastic-futures/