TILOS Seminar: What makes a good world model?

Halicioglu Data Science Institute Room 123 3234 Matthews Ln, La Jolla, CA, United States

Nicklas Hansen, New York University Abstract: World models are quickly becoming a central ingredient in systems for decision-making. However, several fundamental questions remain largely unresolved: what's the right learning objective, what's the right training data, and how do we evaluate the quality of a world model? In this talk, I will present a line of […]

Vernor Vinge Lecture Series on the Future of AI and Society – Blaise Aguera y Arcas

Halicioglu Data Science Institute Room 123 3234 Matthews Ln, La Jolla, CA, United States

Details will be announced closer to the event. Blaise Agüera y Arcas is an author, AI researcher and Vice President / Fellow at Google, where he is the CTO of Technology & Society and founder of Paradigms of Intelligence (Pi), an organization working on basic research in AI and related fields, with a focus on […]

Vernor Vinge Lecture Series on the Future of AI and Society – Benjamin Levinstein

Halicioglu Data Science Institute Room 123 3234 Matthews Ln, La Jolla, CA, United States

Details will be announced closer to the event. Benjamin Levinstein is an alignment researcher at Anthropic and associate professor of philosophy at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His research spans epistemology, decision theory, and AI safety, with recent work on whether language models have beliefs and how to make them more truthful. Levinstein has […]