Beyond Brute Force: The Era of Adaptive Intelligence

The next generation of truly intelligent systems won’t be defined by scale. They’ll be defined by adaption: the ability to continuously learn, evolve, and close the gap between what a model knows and what the world actually looks like right now.

In this talk, Sara Hooker, Co-founder of Adaption Labs, defines the paradigm shift of moving beyond monolithic, static AI and what it takes to build systems that are malleable by design. She’ll cover the principles behind continual, gradient-free learning, and why the next era of intelligence evolves with the world. Her goal is to build AI that works for people, not the other way around.