Understanding AI: Humanities x Social Sciences x TechnologyUnderstanding and interpreting AI is the new frontier in AI research. While advances in the performance of AI models have seen enormous successes, a profound understanding of how learning happens inside the models remains to be thoroughly explored.Understanding how AI learns has the potential to help us gain novel insights ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Evolving Organisms to Grow new Nanomaterials for Energy, the Environment and Medicine Organisms have been making exquisite inorganic materials for over 500 million years. Although these materials have many desired physical properties such as strength, regularity, and environmentally benign processing, the types of materials that organisms have evolved to work with are limited. However, there are many properties of living systems that ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Generative AI in the Cloud: Inside Microsoft AI InnovationJoin Mark Russinovich, Azure CTO and Technical Fellow, and get an under-the-hood look at Microsoft’s AI architecture, including the large-scale supercomputers that train foundational models and the infrastructure that efficiently serves small and large pretrained and finetuned models. He’ll cover everything from how we design servers, to the AI-aware resource ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Molecular and cellular bases of coral symbiosis and its breakdowninteraction and is hypothesized to have given rise to much of eukaryotic cellular complexity. The endosymbiosis between corals and dinoflagellate algae is essential to the energetic requirements of coral-reef ecosystems. However, coral reefs are in danger due to elevated ocean temperatures and other stressors that lead to the breakdown of ...
Microorganisms in the environment play an important role in human lives: microbial metabolism can be used to treat our waste and generate useful products (e.g., food, medicine, and energy), while pathogenic microorganisms in our water and food can threaten human health. Developments of innovative materials help us to better harness ...
Ammonia-oxidizing archaea (AOA) are among the most abundant organisms on Earth and play a key role in the nitrogen cycle, oxidizing ammonia to nitrite as the first step in nitrification. These AOA are especially important in mediating nutrient cycling within estuaries and coastal oceans â€" both dynamic, high-flux systems. Many ...
Where: Cost: Free
Astronomy on Tap San Antonio: Two Talks - LivestreamA Flight Over the Mysterious Hydrocarbon Lakes on Saturn’s Moon TitanSpeaker: Xinting Yu, University of Texas, San AntonioLunar Orbiter Divides the Old Moon from the NewSpeaker: Robert Reeves, astrophotographerSee weblink for YouTube and Facebook links
Where: Cost: Free
What You Need to Know About Generative AIHave we finally discovered the holy grail of artificial intelligence (AI) - machines that match or exceed human intelligence?Advances in generative AI (GAI) have created a new class of computer systems that exhibit astonishing proficiency on a wide variety of tasks with superhuman performance, producing novel text, images, music, and ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: $25 General, $15 Members in person, $10/Free web
In his updated Nikolsky Lecture “Rotorcraft flight control technology advancements and future challenges,†Dr. Tischler first summarizes the key flight control design drivers that distinguish rotorcraft from their fixed-wing counterparts. The second part of his presentation review the key advancements in flight control technology over the past 50 years. Dr. ...
Where: Santa ClaraCost: Free (see weblink for food/drink options)
