 Zoom Link to Join the Seminar
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#3 Jeff Clune (University of British Columbia & Google DeepMind)
Title: Open-Ended and AI-Generating Algorithms in the Era of Foundation Models
Abstract. Foundation models (e.g. large language models) create exciting new opportunities in our longstanding quests to produce open-ended and AI-generating algorithms, wherein agents can truly keep innovating and learning forever. In this talk I will share some of our recent work harnessing the power of foundation models to make progress in these areas. I will cover our recent work on OMNI (Open-endedness via Models of human Notions of Interestingness), Video Pre-Training (VPT), Thought Cloning, Automatically Designing Agentic Systems, and The AI Scientist.
When: @11/20/2024 11:00am
#2 Yoshua Bengio (Mila & University of Montreal)
Title: Why and how could we design aligned and provably safe AI?
Abstract. This presentation will start by providing context for avoiding catastrophic outcomes from future advanced AI systems, in particular on the need to address both the technical alignment challenge and the political challenge of coordination and democratic governance, at national and international levels. I will then outline a machine learning research program to obtain quantitative and conservative risk evaluations to address the alignment challenge. This is based on amortized inference of Bayesian posterior over causal theories of the data available to the AI, using generative AI to approximate that posterior and mathematical methods developed recently around generative flow networks (GFlowNets).
When: @2/6/2024, 9:30:00 AM
Where: Zoom
Video link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sc5a_LmvlXI
#1 Jim Fan (NVIDIA)
Title: Generalist Agents in Open-Ended Worlds
When: @11/17/2023, 1:30:00 PM
Where: Zoom
