Joint Boston ACX and AICamp event April 16th at Microsoft NERD
Dan Elton
I'm excited to announce our next event will be on April 16th. Our speaker, Rachel St Clair, will be in town to attend the Imagination in Action AI event on Thursday April 18th. She is really excited to present the work she is doing at her startup, Simuli. She is also inviting other members from Simuli to speak about AI alignment and she told me she would like to meet Boston-area Effective Altruists. I will update the event description if and when AI alignment speaker(s) are confirmed.
Rachel did her Ph.D. research under the tutelage of the famous philosopher of mind Susan Schneider. She then became a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Future Mind at Florida Atlantic University before founding Simuli. She has published over 20 academic papers, a subset of which are on Google Scholar. She will speak about using data compression to make AI more compute efficient and novel biologically-inspired architectures for more efficient AI. It should be another fascinating event with food, drink, and lots of time for socializing. As with our last event, this event is run in conjunction with AICamp.
PLEASE MAKE SURE TO RSVP ON AICAMP. ONE WEEK ADVANCE REGISTRATION IS REQUESTED BY MICROSOFT.
Agenda for the evening:
5:30 - 6:30 pm Socializing with pizza and light refreshments
6:30 - 8:00 pm Tech Talk(s)
8:00 - 8:30 pm Socializing and wind-down
Talk abstract:
The current paradigm for AI involves scaling transformers by adding more parameters and training data. Under this paradigm, hardware requirements are growing exponentially over time, which is arguably not sustainable in the long term. At Simuli, verifiably lossless and data agnostic compression is being used to compress data, leading to more compute efficient AI systems which require less power and are more climate-friendly. Researchers at Simuli are also exploring new architectures for AI such as the brain-inspired "recommendation architecture". These sort of architectures require fewer parameters in some applications and have different scaling characteristics compared to transformers.
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Regards,
-- Dan