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SUMMARY:CITRIS\, CDSS and BAIR Present: Anca Dragan on AI Agents and Objectives
DESCRIPTION:Talk Title: “AI Agents That Do What We Want: Progress and Open Challenges” \nSpeaker: Anca Dragan\, Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences\, UC Berkeley \nRegister To Attend | Watch Livestream on YouTube \nAbstract: Researchers used to define objectives for artificial intelligence (AI) agents by hand\, but with progress in optimization and reinforcement learning\, it became obvious that it’s too difficult to think of everything ahead of time and write it down. Instead\, these days the objective is viewed as a hidden part of the state on which researchers can receive feedback or observations from humans — how they act and react\, how they compare options\, what they say. In this talk\, Dragan will discuss what this transition has achieved\, what open challenges researchers still face and ideas for mitigating them. This lecture will go over applications in robotics and how the lessons there apply to virtual agents like large language models. \nSpeaker Bio: Anca Dragan is an associate professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at UC Berkeley. She runs the InterACT Lab\, where her team focuses on algorithms for human-robot interaction that move beyond the robot’s function in isolation\, generate robot behavior that coordinates well with people and align with what they actually want the robot to do. The lab works across different applications\, from assistive arms to quadrotors to autonomous cars\, and draws from optimal control\, game theory\, reinforcement learning\, Bayesian inference and cognitive science. Dragan also helped found and serves on the steering committee for the Berkeley AI Research (BAIR) Lab\, and she is a co-principal investigator of the Center for Human-Compatible AI. She has been honored with the Sloan Fellowship\, MIT Innovators Under 35 (TR35)\, the Okawa Prize\, an NSF CAREER award and the Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE). \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-anca-dragan-on-ai-objectives/
LOCATION:Banatao Auditorium\, 310 Sutardja Dai Hall\, 2594 Hearst Avenue\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
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SUMMARY:POSTPONED: CITRIS\, CDSS and BAIR Present Timnit Gebru on Community-rooted AI Research
DESCRIPTION:This event will be rescheduled. Registered attendees will be notified by email when the new date is selected. \nTalk Title: “Independent Community-rooted AI Research” \nSpeaker: Timnit Gebru\, Founder and Executive Director\, Distributed AI Research Institute \n \nAbstract: The Distributed Artificial Intelligence Research Institute (DAIR) was launched in December 2021 by Timnit Gebru as a space for independent\, community-rooted AI research\, free from Big Tech’s pervasive influence. Unlike the current trend of centralizing power and claiming to build one giant model that serves the needs of everyone while stealing data and exploiting labor\, DAIR works on small task-specific models that serve the needs of specific communities. The organization shows that this approach not only outperforms current models from Big Tech corporations in applications like machine translation and automatic speech recognition\, but also serves to distribute power across the world in the hands of grassroots organizations. Instead of envisioning a future where technology is used to plunder resources\, colonize the cosmos and disenfranchise cultural workers\, DAIR urges technologists to use their skills to address the needs of communities that are often harmed by the race to build monopolies. \nSpeaker Bio: Timnit Gebru is the founder and executive director of the Distributed Artificial Intelligence Research Institute (DAIR). Prior to that she served as co-lead of the Ethical AI research team at Google. She received her Ph.D. from Stanford University\, and did postdoctoral work at Microsoft Research in New York City in the Fairness Accountability Transparency and Ethics (FATE) in AI group\, where she studied algorithmic bias and the ethical implications underlying projects aiming to gain insights from data. Gebru also co-founded Black in AI\, a nonprofit that works to increase the presence\, inclusion\, visibility and health of Black people in the field of AI\, and she serves on the board of AddisCoder\, a nonprofit dedicated to teaching algorithms and computer programming to Ethiopian high school students\, free of charge. \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-timnit-gebru-on-community-rooted-ai-research/
LOCATION:Banatao Auditorium\, 310 Sutardja Dai Hall\, 2594 Hearst Avenue\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
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