AI & ML Event — Math Society Journal
Math Club Event: AI & Machine Learning
Is it hot here, or is it just our audience for the AI & ML event?
Sorry for the bad joke — but that really made me crack my code.
This event was one of the largest audiences we’ve had this year, and that says a lot.
The term AI continues to be thrown mercilessly around by inexperienced “AI gurus” in an attempt to stay relevant.
This naturally raises the question of what machine learning and artificial intelligence truly are —
which, to the surprise of many, is a purely mathematical procedure.
And that, as a Maths Society event, is cool!
Most of us once dreamt of being astronauts, building cool machines, working with technology, or curing diseases.
But one thing many of us (modulo a few hypermotivated math majors) didn’t dream of doing was... math itself.
Math has often felt like an additional topic without much symbolic meaning.
But to truly comprehend the machinery behind building and innovation,
we must understand the math behind every step.
This is exactly what Ahmed Maghri explored in his delightful talk.
Don’t worry — we did the deconfiguration of our minds after that equation.
It turns out that ChatGPT itself needs math to process questions and compute answers.
The large language model uses probability to predict the next word —
kind of like when you’re struck for words yourself.
(At that point, our wires were exploding in curiousness!)
In a place full of casual students in casual clothes, we had people like Ahmed,
who can never be too dressed for an event — he probably sleeps in a suit!
This event was our first official Math Society event, and it was a success.
Besides the laughs, we learned to appreciate the mathematical beauty behind AI.
So no, we can’t say, “He tried to impress me, but his humor was artificial.”
If you have more questions, visit our amazing tutors during
Math Support Center (Saturday, 14:00, West Hall 7)!
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Published 28 Oct 2025