Sep 26, 2024 KING’S PLACEIn the first lecture of the series, The Alan Turing Institute’s Head of Online Safety and AI for Public Services, Jonathan Bright, will explore how political campaigns are making use of AI and the challenges posed by deepfakes. He’ll also talk about fact-checking, content moderation and why it’s so important to…
Nov 9, 2023 THE ROYAL INSTITUTIONAs generative AI becomes increasingly sophisticated, its potential to revolutionise the way we interact with data is clear. It has already shown its ability to assist with tasks such as image and video synthesis, text and speech generation, and music composition. However, the rapid development of generative AI models has…
Jan 25, 2024December 5, 2023Douwe Kiela, Contextual AI Language models have led to amazing progress, but they also have important shortcomings. One solution for many of these shortcomings is retrieval augmentation. I will introduce the topic, survey recent literature on retrieval augmented language models and finish with some of the main open questions. More about…
Mustafa Suleyman is the ultimate AI insider. As co-founder of DeepMind and Inflection AI, he is one of the pioneers of the artificial intelligence revolution, potentially the single greatest accelerant of progress in history. Investors in Inflection AI include the likes of Microsoft, Nvidia and Bill Gates. Suleyman says AI represents nothing less than a…
In this episode, Geoffrey Hinton, a renowned computer scientist and a leading expert in deep learning, provides an in-depth exploration of his groundbreaking new learning algorithm – the forward-forward algorithm. Hinton argues this algorithm provides a more plausible model for how the cerebral cortex might learn, and could be the key to unlocking new possibilities…
Oct 18, 2024 SUPERC – RWTH HOCHSCHULVERWALTUNGSpeaker: Professor Dirk Helbing (ETH Zürich)Titel: Artificial intelligence – a universal tool? Center for Artificial Intelligence, RWTH Aachen: https://www.ai.rwth-aachen.de/ Abstract:Research and development in the field of artificial intelligence is making breathtaking progress. Billions are being invested in the technology worldwide. It seems that we will soon have a universal…
Ricardo Hausmann Prosperity is associated with technological progress, which is related to advances in scientific and productive knowledge. But where is that knowledge embedded? How is it put to use? And what kind of social structures does it give rise to? This lecture will shed light on why the world is so unequal, why and…
Prof. Tim Rocktäschel, AI researcher at UCL and Google DeepMind, talks about open-ended AI systems. These systems aim to keep learning and improving on their own, like evolution does in nature. TOC:00:00:00 Introduction to Open-Ended AI and Key Concepts00:01:37 Tim Rocktäschel’s Background and Research Focus00:06:25 Defining Open-Endedness in AI Systems00:10:39 Subjective Nature of Interestingness and…
Aug 14, 2024 Google DeepMind: The PodcastProfessor Hannah Fry is joined by Google DeepMind’s senior research director Douglas Eck to explore AI’s capacity for true creativity. They delve into the complexities of defining creativity, the challenges of AI generated content and attribution, and whether AI can help us to connect with each other in new…
In this episode, Professor Hannah Fry sits down with Pushmeet Kohli, VP of Science Research at Google DeepMind to discuss AI’s impact on scientific discovery. They go on a whirlwind tour of scientific projects, touching on recent breakthroughs in #alphafold, material science, weather forecasting, and mathematics to better understand how AI can enhance our scientific…
