From Chatbots to Life-Saving Medicine

From Chatbots to Life-Saving Medicine: How a 120-year-old Statistical Process Paved the Way for the Artificial Intelligence Revolution

This lecture is face-to-face on the University of Liverpool's campus, exact venue TBC. It is suitable for anyone aged 16 or over with an interest in mathematics. Please book one ticket for each person attending. There will not be a live stream or a recording.

Have you ever wondered how AI can write an entire essay in a flash? Or produce programming code instantly? Or complete complex analysis of large datasets? The story starts with a simple, centuries-old idea - the Markov chain. We’ll see how this mathematical model has evolved through time, why it constantly pops up in the history of AI development, and how it links to the development of life-saving drugs.