Neurosymbolic AI brings together the statistical nature of machine learning with the formal reasoning capabilities of symbolic AI. It seeks to offer a balanced approach to contemporary AI technologies, by combining the ability to learn from data, with the capacity to reason upon knowledge acquired from an environment. The main ...
Hundred-year-old giant clams, coral kingdoms that rival human cities, jellyfish that glow in the dark, and sea stars with super strength: ocean invertebrates are among the oldest and most diverse organisms on earth, In The Ocean’s Menagerie: How Earth’s Strangest Creatures Reshape the Rules of Life, leading marine ecologist Dr. Drew Harvell explores ...
The past few years have seen rapid advances in frontier AI models, demonstrating increasing performance and generality. As progress continues toward artificial general intelligence (AGI), Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) scholarship and practice has a critical role to play in ensuring that AI technology is useful to and usable by people to ...
A family from the northern New Mexico tribe of Santa Clara Pueblo is developing a Tewa-language place-names project. Their work raises questions about the intergenerational passage and passing of cultural knowledge. Place-names call attention to the link between language and land. They orient communities to space and time. They hold ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Molecular Engineering to Tip Immune Balances between Tolerance and AggressionWe explore materials and protein engineering approaches to deliver antigens and cytokines to tip the immune balance between tolerance and aggression. In the context of tolerance, induction of regulatory T cells is critical, and antigen specificity can arise from exogenously administered antigens in the form of an inverse vaccine or ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Every Day, Computers are Making People Easier to UseA conversation with the editors of In Formation, a tech-critical magazine revived after 25 years.Once a cult favorite of the tech underground, In Formation is a tech-critical magazine revived after 25 years to examine how digital tools shape, and sometimes distort, our humanity. Join editors David Temkin, Alex Lash, Paulina ...
Kate Crawford is an internationally leading scholar of AI and its impacts. She is a Professor at the University of Southern California in LA, a Senior Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research Labs New York, Honorary Professor at the University of Sydney, and the inaugural visiting chair of AI and Justice ...