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Speaker Series: Competing in the Age of AI at 7:30 PM
Speaker Series
"Competing in the Age of AI"
Hanspeter Pfister
Tuesday, November 28, 2023
7:30pm Hybrid Talk
ON ZOOM OR AT THE WELLESLEY FREE LIBRARY
Co-sponsored with Wellesley Free Library
Hanspeter Pfister will discuss the most recent developments in Artificial Intelligence (AI) to provide an informed opinion about the state of AI and its implications for the future. In particular, he will discuss foundation models, such as ChatGPT and DALL-E, which are large neural networks trained on massive datasets. Foundation models exhibit sophisticated text and code generation, which can be combined to unlock surprising capabilities such as language-conditioned image generation.
Hanspeter Pfister is the Academic Dean of Computational Sciences and Engineering and the An Wang Professor of Computer Science in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University. He is an affiliate faculty member of the Harvard Center for Brain Science and served as director of the Institute for Applied Computational Science 20
13-17. His research in visual computing lies at the intersection of visualization, computer graphics, and computer vision. It spans various topics, including biomedical visualization, image and video analysis, machine learning, and data science.
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