Open-Endedness and General Intelligence
- 👤 Speaker: Tim Rocktäschel, University College London
- 📅 Date & Time: Friday 24 May 2024, 12:00 - 13:00
- 📍 Venue: FW26, William Gates Building. Zoom link: https://cl-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4361570789?pwd=Nkl2T3ZLaTZwRm05bzRTOUUxY3Q4QT09&from=addon
Abstract
I will talk about our research towards developing increasingly capable and general AI. Central to this research direction is Open-Endedness: the attempt to create an AI that can endlessly improve and expand its capabilities. In particular, this talk will focus on three areas: training autonomous and robust agents that can set themselves problems and goals, training large-scale world models which can provide AIs with endless environments to learn in, and lastly, the connection of Open-Endedness methods to Large Language Models to develop AI that can improve itself with applications in automated prompt engineering and AI safety.
Bio: I’m a Professor of Artificial Intelligence at the Centre for Artificial Intelligence in the Department of Computer Science at University College London (UCL) where I’m a PI of the UCL Deciding, Acting, and Reasoning with Knowledge (DARK) Lab. I’m also the Open-Endedness Team Lead at Google DeepMind, and a Scholar of the European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems (ELLIS).
Series This talk is part of the NLIP Seminar Series series.
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Tim Rocktäschel, University College London
Friday 24 May 2024, 12:00-13:00