Hosted by the Data Science Institute and Columbia Engineering
Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) progress has stalled. Your work can change that.
Join Mike Knoop (Co-Founder, Zapier) and François Chollet (Founder, Keras) on the ARC Prize 2024 University Tour, exploring frontier AGI research that challenges current industry benchmarks and beliefs.
Forever the great dream of the field of AI, AGI that can invent and discover alongside us would bring unimaginable benefits to humanity. However, no amount of scale will allow machines alone to efficiently learn new skills the way humans do.
At this event, we’ll dive deep into technical approaches designed to defeat Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus for Artificial General Intelligence (ARC-AGI) – the only AI benchmark that measures our progress toward true intelligent systems. Information about how Columbia students and researchers can enter this $1M prize competition will be shared.
This event is open to only Columbia affiliated faculty, students, and researchers.
Speakers
Mike Knoop co-founded Zapier, where he led all product and engineering before shifting focus to AI R&D in the summer of 2022. At Zapier, he launched numerous popular products, as well as leading Zapier’s OpenAI partnership. Mike is a builder with a background in engineering, math, research, and programming and is passionate about frontier and open source AGI research.
François Chollet is the creator of Keras, a popular Python deep learning library, and ARC-AGI. He is an engineer at Google and researcher in artificial intelligence. François has been awarded the Global Swiss AI award for breakthroughs in AI and is the author of “Deep Learning with Python” and the notable paper”On the Measure of Intelligence”.
Details
Friday, October 11, 2024 (12:00 PM – 2:00 PM ET)
Location: Columbia Engineering Innovation Hub (Manhattanville Campus)
Address: 2276 12th Ave, New York, NY 10027
Agenda:
- 12:00 PM – 12:30 PM: Welcome and Pizza
- 12:30 PM – 1:15 PM: Talk from Mike Knoop and François Chollet
- 1:15 PM – 2:00 PM: Open Questions, Discussions, Networking