OnDeck ML Research Social
Addressing your "Future work" sections...
Come hang out behind the curtain and explore the thought process and the magic of AI research as it's forming.
What people talk about as areas of "future research" become the breakthroughs in a year's time. This is a chance to hear about things that may never see the light of day, but are Tier 1 priorities for researchers today.
You've already presented your research at NeurIPS - this is an opportunity to work through the reasoning you and others are using to approach the really hard stuff you've left as future work.
Who?
Researchers from Cambridge, Oxford, Meta, + more.
Early & Late Stage AI Startups: Cohere, Variational AI, Cortical Labs, + more.
Ecosystem Legends 👀
Topics include:
What's missing for our research to be usable and useful for the world?
Can we forgo inductive biases of tasks?
How can we build task independent reasoning?
Learning from unlabelled data to improve speech decoding from the brain.
Grounded open-vocabulary models: Generalized visual reasoning and limits of contrastive learning at scale.
Big challenges: Whats feasible? What are you missing? What would make your tool usable that was just in research 5 months ago?
Big bets: Specific & concrete challenges you would like to tackle in 12-24 months?
Agenda:
17:00 - Arrive and grab a drink.
17:30- Lightning talks (2-3 mins) from a variety of researchers.
18:15 - Food and drinks and socializing 🥘🍱🥂
19:30 - Closing thoughts.
TL;DR: A researcher social with good people + food + drinks.
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