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Sébastien Bubeck (Microsoft Research)
Distinguished Lecture Series
Tuesday, April 25, 2023, 3:30 pm
Abstract
This talk will not be streamed or recorded. In-person only.
The new wave of AI systems, ChatGPT and its more powerful successors, exhibit extraordinary capabilities across a broad swath of domains. In light of this, we will discuss whether artificial INTELLIGENCE has arrived.
Bio
Sébastien Bubeck is a Senior Principal Research Manager in the Machine Learning Foundations group at Microsoft Research (MSR). He joined the Theory Group at MSR in 2014, after three years as an assistant professor at Princeton University. His works on convex optimization, online algorithms and adversarial robustness in machine learning received several best paper awards (STOC 2023, NeurIPS 2018 and 2021, ALT 2018 and 2023 best student paper in joint work with MSR interns,
COLT 2016, and COLT 2009 best student paper). Recently he has been focused on exploring a physics-like theory of neural networks learning.
Sébastien is the lead author of the recent paper "Sparks of Artificial General Intelligence: Early experiments with GPT-4" and contributed to the forthcoming book "The AI Revolution in Medicine: GPT-4 and Beyond."
At Sebastien's request, we did not record this presentation. A version of the talk he gave a few weeks previously at MIT - surely inferior, but the introduction is great - is available here.