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SUMMARY:CITRIS\, CDSS and BAIR Present: Jaron Lanier on Data Dignity in AI
DESCRIPTION:Talk Title: “Data Dignity and the Inversion of AI” \nSpeaker: Jaron Lanier\, Prime Unifying Scientist\, Microsoft \nRegister To Attend | Watch Livestream on YouTube \nAbstract: In this talk\, Jaron Lanier will discuss a piece he published in The New Yorker (“There Is No AI”) about applying data dignity ideas to artificial intelligence (AI). Large-model AI can be reconceived as a social collaboration between the people who provided data to the model in the form of text\, images and other modalities. This is a figure/ground inversion of the usual conception of AI as being a participant or collaborator in its own right. Explanations of model results and behaviors would then center around the relative influence of specific inputs through a provenance calculation mechanism. This formulation suggests new and different strategies for long-term economics in the context of high-performance AI\, as well as more concrete approaches to many safety\, fairness and alignment questions. \nSpeaker Bio: Jaron Lanier is a computer scientist\, composer\, artist and author. He currently serves as prime unifying scientist for Microsoft. His many awards include an IEEE lifetime career award and the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade. He was named one of the 25 most influential people in the previous 25 years of tech history by Wired\, one of the world’s 100 most influential people by Time\, one of the world’s top 100 public intellectuals by Foreign Policy\, and a top 50 world thinker by Prospect Magazine. In computer science Lanier is probably best known for his work in virtual reality. He coined the term\, had the first startup\, sold the first hardware and pioneered the major applications. His tech startups landed at Adobe\, Google and Pfizer. He is also known as a critic of technology\, through books like “Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts” and TV appearances such as in “The Social Dilemma.” He is active in cognitive science\, theoretical physics\, philosophy and economics. \nAbout the Talk: Co-hosted with the UC Berkeley College of Computing\, Data Science\, and Society and the UC Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research (BAIR) Lab. \nAbout the Series: CITRIS Research Exchange delivers fresh perspectives on information technology and society from distinguished academic\, industry and civic leaders. Free and open to the public\, these seminars feature leading voices on societal-scale research issues. Presentations take place on Wednesdays from noon to 1 p.m. PT. Have an idea for a great talk? Please feel free to suggest potential speakers for our series. \nSign up to receive the latest news and updates from CITRIS.
URL:https://citris-uc.org/event/citris-cdss-and-bair-present-jaron-lanier-on-data-dignity-in-ai/
LOCATION:Banatao Auditorium\, 310 Sutardja Dai Hall\, 2594 Hearst Avenue\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
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SUMMARY:CITRIS Research Exchange: Eli Yablonovitch on Carbon-negative Tech
DESCRIPTION:Talk Title: “Carbon-negative Technology To Solve the Climate Crisis” \nSpeaker: Eli Yablonovitch\, Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences\, UC Berkeley \nRegister To Attend | Watch Livestream on YouTube \nAbstract: In 1977\, physicist Freeman Dyson proposed the burial of biomass as a scalable\, economical solution to the carbon dioxide problem. Today we know that harvested vegetation should be buried in an engineered dry biolandfill. Plant biomass can be preserved for thousands of years by burial in a dry environment with sufficiently low thermodynamic “water activity\,” which is the relative humidity in equilibrium with the biomass. A water activity less than 60 percent will not support life\, suppressing anaerobic organisms\, thus preserving the biomass for millennia. Current agriculture and biolandfill costs indicate that $60 per ton of sequestered carbon dioxide corresponds to $0.53 per gallon of gasoline. If scaled to the level of a major crop\, existing carbon dioxide can be extracted from the atmosphere and sequester a significant fraction of prior years’ carbon dioxide emissions. \nSpeaker Bio: Eli Yablonovitch introduced the idea that strained semiconductor lasers could have superior performance due to reduced valence band effective mass. Now\, with optical telecommunication\, almost every human interaction on the internet occurs by strained semiconductor lasers. Yablonovitch is regarded as a father of the photonic bandgap concept\, and he coined the term “photonic crystal.” The geometrical structure of the first experimentally realized photonic bandgap is sometimes called “Yablonovite.” In his photovoltaic research\, Yablonovitch introduced the 4 (n squared) light-trapping factor\, known as the “Yablonovitch limit\,” that is in worldwide use for almost all commercial solar panels. He was elected to the National Academy of Engineering\, the National Academy of Sciences\, the National Academy of Inventors\, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences\, and as a foreign member\, the Royal Society of the United Kingdom. \nAbout the Series: CITRIS Research Exchange delivers fresh perspectives on information technology and society from distinguished academic\, industry and civic leaders. Free and open to the public\, these seminars feature leading voices on societal-scale research issues. Presentations take place on Wednesdays from noon to 1 p.m. PT. Have an idea for a great talk? Please feel free to suggest potential speakers for our series. \nSign up to receive the latest news and updates from CITRIS.
URL:https://citris-uc.org/event/citris-research-exchange-eli-yablonovitch/
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SUMMARY:CITRIS\, CDSS and BAIR Present: Alison Gopnik on Imitation and Innovation in AI
DESCRIPTION:Talk Title: “Imitation and Innovation in AI: What Four-year-olds Can Do and AI Can’t (Yet)” \nSpeaker: Alison Gopnik\, Distinguished Professor of Psychology\, UC Berkeley \nRegister To Attend | Watch Livestream on YouTube \nAbstract: Young children’s learning may be an important model for artificial intelligence (AI). Comparing children and artificial agents in the same tasks and environments can help us understand the abilities of existing systems and create new ones. In particular\, many current large data-supervised systems\, such as large language models (LLMs)\, provide new ways to access information collected by past agents. However\, they lack the kinds of exploration and innovation that are characteristic of children. New techniques may help to instantiate childlike curiosity\, exploration and play in AI systems. \nSpeaker Bio: Alison Gopnik is a professor of psychology\, affiliate professor of philosophy and member of the Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research (BAIR) Lab at the University of California\, Berkeley. She is an internationally recognized leader in the cognitive science of learning and development and the author of the bestselling and critically acclaimed books “The Scientist in the Crib\,” “The Philosophical Baby” and “The Gardener and the Carpenter.” She is a Guggenheim\, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and Cognitive Science Society fellow\, a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences\, and president of the Association for Psychological Science. She writes the Mind and Matter science column for The Wall Street Journal and has appeared on “The Charlie Rose Show\,” “The Colbert Report\,” “The Ezra Klein Show” and “Radio Lab.” \nAbout the Talk: Co-hosted with the UC Berkeley College of Computing\, Data Science\, and Society and the UC Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research (BAIR) Lab. \nAbout the Series: CITRIS Research Exchange delivers fresh perspectives on information technology and society from distinguished academic\, industry and civic leaders. Free and open to the public\, these seminars feature leading voices on societal-scale research issues. Presentations take place on Wednesdays from noon to 1 p.m. PT. Have an idea for a great talk? Please feel free to suggest potential speakers for our series. \nSign up to receive the latest news and updates from CITRIS.
URL:https://citris-uc.org/event/citris-cdss-and-bair-present-alison-gopnik-on-imitation-and-innovation-in-ai/
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