Fire to Neuralink: The Story of Artificial Intelligence | Faisal Warraich

Open AI’s Sam Altman – formerly CEO until his departure in November 2023 – sits down with Azeem Azhar to give his perspective on the evolution of artificial intelligence and its impact on politics, education and inequality.

A novel intelligence has roared into the mainstream, sparking euphoric excitement as well as abject fear. Explore the landscape of possible futures in a brave new world of thinking machines, with the very leaders at the vanguard of artificial intelligence. The Big Ideas Series is supported in part by the John Templeton Foundation. Participants:Sébastien BubeckTristan…

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…

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…

Abstract: I will survey a current, heated debate in the AI research community on whether large pre-trained language models can be said to “understand” language—and the physical and social situations language encodes—in any important sense. I will describe arguments that have been made for and against such understanding, and, more generally, will discuss what methods…

Mar 15, 2024UC Davis College of Engineering Dean’s Distinguished Speaker Melanie Mitchell, Professor at the Santa Fe Institute, presents “The Future of Artificial Intelligence”