Scheduled Events:
March 2025 - Mensa NZ Summer Gathering, Hamilton
Online Sunday Seminars:
Mensa NZ is running monthly online seminars covering major issues that many people may want to know more about and/or know what they can do more about through a New Zealand lens.
12 noon Sunday, February 2nd, 2025
Title: The past, present, and future of AI
Description
In this talk, Hazel will reflect on the history of AI, the current state of the field, and its likely future trajectory. Participants will be encouraged to share their own reflections on the past, experiences in the present, and expectations for the future.
Speaker
Hazel Watson-Smith is a Conversation Engineer on the Machine Learning team at Marlee and was previously a Research Integration Engineer for the Autonomous Animation team at Soul Machines. Hazel is passionate about human-computer cooperation and making high-quality, reliable AI systems with heart. She has a degree in computer science and psychology focusing on human-computer interaction, human development, and cognitive perception.
How to Access the Seminars
- The February seminar will be on Zoom. (We may switch to Teams at some point, but you will be notified if / when that happens).
- The Zoom link is: https://vuw.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYof-Cpqz8qG9HKiIZSE3WmnTAk-Spf3XJf
- The password is: 01010011
- It will ask you to register, but it just requires an e-mail address to discourage mischief-makers.
Future Seminars
Seminars will take place from 12-1:30 pm NZ time the first Sunday of every month except January. Topic and speaker details will be provided via Menzed and the Mensa NZ website. New Zealand Mensa members will also be notified by e-mail.
Previous Seminars
December 1st, 2024
Topic: Climate change – what’s happening and what do we do about it?
Speaker: James Renwick
December 8th 2024
Topic: The intergenerational value of regular population censuses whilst amidst a population storm
Speaker: Len Cook