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DESCRIPTION:Generating the Future: The Power of AI Language Models by Professor Benjamin Rosman Over the last few months, artificial intelligence has suddenly exploded into the popular consciousness at an unprecedented scale through various text and image generation models, most notably ChatGPT. These models provide users with no technical background the ability to enter a simple prompt and generate a wide range of complex outputs, from photo-realistic pictures to song lyrics, essays or computer code. The combination of being both general purpose and easy to use means that this new technology is already having an impact globally, and is expected to transform multiple industries. In this talk, I will explore the underlying ideas behind these models, discuss what they can (and can't) do, and then look at the transformative effects that they are already having, and will continue to have, on society.
<br />Benjamin Rosman is a Professor in the School of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics at the University of the Witwatersrand, where he runs the Robotics, Autonomous Intelligence and Learning (RAIL) Laboratory and is the Director of the National E-Science Postgraduate Teaching and Training Platform (NEPTTP). He received his Ph.D. in Informatics from the University of Edinburgh in the UK in 2014, and previously obtained his M.Sc. in Artificial Intelligence from the University of Edinburgh. He also has a B.Sc. (Hons) in Computer Science and a B.Sc. (Hons) in Applied Mathematics, both from the University of the Witwatersrand.
<br />His research interests focus primarily on reinforcement learning and decision making in autonomous systems, specifically on how learning can be accelerated through abstracting and generalising knowledge gained from solving related problems. He is a founder and organiser of the Deep Learning Indaba machine learning summer school, with a focus on strengthening African machine learning. He was made a 2022 CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholar by the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, was a 2017 recipient of a Google Faculty Research Award in machine learning, and a 2021 recipient of a Google Africa Research Award. In 2020, he was made a Senior Member of the IEEE.
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<strong>Generating the Future: The Power of AI Language Models by Professor Benjamin Rosman </strong><p>Over the last few months, artificial intelligence has suddenly exploded into the popular consciousness at an unprecedented scale through various text and image generation models, most notably ChatGPT. These models provide users with no technical background the ability to enter a simple prompt and generate a wide range of complex outputs, from photo-realistic pictures to song lyrics, essays or computer code. The combination of being both general purpose and easy to use means that this new technology is already having an impact globally, and is expected to transform multiple industries. In this talk, I will explore the underlying ideas behind these models, discuss what they can (and can't) do, and then look at the transformative effects that they are already having, and will continue to have, on society.</p>
<br /><p><strong>Benjamin Rosman</strong> is a Professor in the School of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics at the University of the Witwatersrand, where he runs the Robotics, Autonomous Intelligence and Learning (RAIL) Laboratory and is the Director of the National E-Science Postgraduate Teaching and Training Platform (NEPTTP). He received his Ph.D. in Informatics from the University of Edinburgh in the UK in 2014, and previously obtained his M.Sc. in Artificial Intelligence from the University of Edinburgh. He also has a B.Sc. (Hons) in Computer Science and a B.Sc. (Hons) in Applied Mathematics, both from the University of the Witwatersrand.</p>
<br /><p>His research interests focus primarily on reinforcement learning and decision making in autonomous systems, specifically on how learning can be accelerated through abstracting and generalising knowledge gained from solving related problems. He is a founder and organiser of the Deep Learning Indaba machine learning summer school, with a focus on strengthening African machine learning. He was made a 2022 CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholar by the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, was a 2017 recipient of a Google Faculty Research Award in machine learning, and a 2021 recipient of a Google Africa Research Award. In 2020, he was made a Senior Member of the IEEE.</p>
SUMMARY:Webinar on ChatGPT
<br />Generating the Future: The Power of AI Language Models by Professor Benjamin Rosm
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