The great AI debate: What does the future hold?

The Greek scientific elite of artificial intelligence gathered north of the capital in the suburb of Agia Paraskevi on Monday to discuss how this emerging technology can be harnessed and the transformative changes it brings to everyday life and across scientific fields.

Leading scientists, including from Harvard and MIT, such as Efthimios Kaxiras, Dimitris Bertsimas and Georgia Perakis, as well as scholars from the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), such as George Stamou and Theodora Varvarigou, are participating in a series of seminars organized by the Hellenic Institute of Advanced Studies (HIAS) at the Demokritos Institute of Informatics and Telecommunications & National Center for Scientific Research. The main objective of the five-day event is to foster collaboration between scientists abroad and in Greece.

"I envision a future where artificial...