[NYC AI Event Picks] November Choice
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TOP Events Overview
Deep Dive Series: Getting into Fundamentals
Nov.1st 18:30-19:45 EST | From Mind to Motion: How the Brain Directs Behaviors. Hosted by Zuckerman Institute,Columbia University. Zoom RSVP
Nov.7 17:30-21:00 EST | ML/AI Conversation: How to Control Diffusion Models and RL for LLM. Hosted by Anna Leonenko @ New York AI/ML Conversations. In Person/Zoom RSVP
Nov.8 17:30-19:00 EST | Innovation in Neurotechnology, Innovation in Governance?
Hosted by the Presidential Scholars in Society and Neuroscience @ Columbia University. Zoom RSVP.
Application Series: Leveraging AI
Nov.8 13:00-14:00 EST | AI + Life Sciences: A Collaboration to Meet the Moment. Hosted by The Institute for Experiential AI, Northeastern University Zoom RSVP.
Nov.14 19:30-22:30 EST | Generative AI Tech Talks, Demo & Social: AI Filmmaking & Media. Hosted by David Cunningham @ New York AI Users. In Person RSVP.
Nov.15 13:00-14:00 EST | AI’s Transformational Impact on Marketing. Hosted by The Institute for Experiential AI, Northeastern University Zoom RSVP.
Nov.16 12:30-13:30 EST | Miranda Bogen – Closing the Gap: Navigating Complexities and Contradictions In the Mitigation of Algorithmic Bias. Hosted by Center for Information Technology Policy, Princeton University Zoom RSVP.
Nov.29 13:00-14:00 EST | From Fundamental Physics to AI: An Emerging Computational Universe. Hosted by The Institute for Experiential AI, Northeastern University In Person/Zoom RSVP.
AI Conferences
Nov.28 05:00-13:30 EST | UCL NeuroAI Annual Conference 2023. Hosted by NeuroAI, University College London. Zoom RSVP.
TOP Events Details
Deep Dive Series: Getting into Fundamentals
[NeuroAI] From Mind to Motion: How the Brain Directs Behaviors [RSVP]
Time & Location: Nov.1 18:30-19:45 EST@Zoom
Featuring Speaker:
Gwyneth Card, PhD, Associate Professor of Neuroscience at Columbia's Zuckerman Institute
Mark Churchland, PhD, Associate Professor of Neuroscience at Columbia's Zuckerman Institute, Co-Director of the Grossman Center for the Statistics of Mind
Though it might feel automatic to suddenly reach and grab for a falling cup, a lot has to line up for this action to take place--even if you don’t manage to catch the cup in time. What does it take to choreograph the cells across the brain in just the right way to do what we need to do? In this event, three experts studying the neuroscience of movement will discuss how neurons work together to generate a wealth of behaviors, from a simple reflex to complex learned skills.
[GenAI] ML/AI Conversation: How to Control Diffusion Models and RL for LLM [RSVP]
Time & Location: Nov.7 17:30-21:00 EST @ 11 W 19th St · New York, NY / Zoom
Featuring Speaker:
Alexey Taymanov (Microsoft)
Seva Oparin (Synthesis AI, Inc.)
Diffusion models appeared recently, but already disrupted the whole design and art industry. Quite complicated models controlled by a short text description, prompt, gave a born to the new job titled prompt engineer. However, there are limitations. No text can explain how to put a person in a particular pose, how to draw that face, or how to mimic particular design pattern. In this talk we will survey text inversion, LoRA, ControlNet and other deep-control techniques.
[NeuroAI] Innovation in Neurotechnology, Innovation in Governance? [RSVP]
Time & Location: Nov.8 17:30-19:00 EST@Zoom
Featuring Speaker:
Riki Banerjee, Vice President of Research and Development at Synchron
Nina Frahm, Postdoctoral Scholar in Information Studies and Digital Design at Aarhus University
Khara Ramos, Vice President of Neuroscience and Society at the Dana Foundation
Rafael Yuste, Professor of Biological Sciences and Neuroscience at Columbia University
As rapid innovations in neurotechnology give rise to ethical, legal, and social concerns, this seminar investigates how countries, institutions, and organizations are navigating the governance of neurotechnologies. Faced with uncertainties such as potential misuse of neurotechnologies beyond health and the exploitation of neuronal data for commercial and security purposes, current governance strategies predominantly rely on ‘soft law’ - ethical guidelines and principles - to steer innovation toward socially desirable ends. However, the growing introduction of neurotechnologies into society has also raised concerns about the efficacy of ‘soft law’ approaches to governance and their related regulatory impacts. This has led to discussions at national and international levels on how to develop governance approaches for neurotechnologies that place a central focus on fundamental rights. This seminar delves into the landscape of experiments in neurotechnology governance, scrutinizes their merits and pitfalls, and takes a look into future trends for tackling risks in neuro-innovation. Leading experts from public policy, the corporate sector, neuroethics, and the emerging field of neurorights will share insights on the effectiveness of various governance approaches, spanning from ethical guidelines to the formulation of new human rights.
Application Series: Leveraging AI
AI + Life Sciences: A Collaboration to Meet the Moment [RSVP]
Time & Location: Nov.8 13:00-14:00 EST @ Zoom
Featuring Speaker:
Sam Scarpino, Director of AI + Life Sciences at Institute for Experiential AI
Adam Bly, CEO of System
Driven by advances in AI and our ability to generate high-resolution data, the life sciences industry is on the cusp of a second golden age. In this webinar, Sam Scarpino, director of AI + Life Sciences will discuss exciting advances at the intersection of AI and Life Sciences, including how we are:
Focusing on wet-lab-in-the-loop AI, building platforms for drug discovery, multiomic approach to understanding the systems biology of disease, and global health security.
Reducing time-to-market and increasing confidence for therapeutics, biologicals, diagnostics and more.
Talent acquisition, Up-skilling Employees, Sponsored Research, Product Evaluation and Strategy and more  
Special conversation with Adam Bly, CEO of System, Inc. exploring challenges and opportunities in AI and Life Sciences
David Cunningham @ New York AI Users Presents Generative AI Tech Talks, Demo & Social: AI Filmmaking & Media [RSVP]
Time & Location: Nov.14 19:30-22:30 EST @ Merlyn Mind, 8 W 40th St 20th Floor · NYC
Featuring Speaker:
Katia Karpenko, a AI content creator, Former Meta content strategist.
Shafik Quoraishee, senior AI and Android engineer.
AI technology like OpenAI's ChatGPT, Google's Bard, Midjourney, Dall-E, and many others will play an increasingly large role in our day-to-day lives. Art, Filmmaking and Media as a whole are being transformed by it. To this end, New York AI Users will host at the Bryant Park-adjacent, beautiful startup HQ of EdTech & AI firm Merlyn Mind! Merlyn will also provide free pizza and drinks! From the creators and organizers of New York Tech & Beer®, New York AI Users brings together AI enthusiasts in the New York area who use or want to use AI to meet their creative, entrepreneurial, and technical aspirations. No technical background is required, only an interest in making use of these tools of the future.
AI’s Transformational Impact on Marketing [RSVP]
Time & Location: Nov.15 13:00-14:00 EST @ Zoom
Featuring Speaker:
Yakov Bart is an associate professor of marketing, a Thomas E. Moore Faculty Fellow, and a Patrick F. and Helen C. Walsh Research Professor at D’Amore-McKim School of Business.
Artificial Intelligence has emerged as a game-changer in marketing, revolutionizing every facet of the discipline. New technologies have radically changed how consumers search for information, evaluate products and services, make purchase decisions, and share their experiences with others. This talk will introduce a novel framework that may help various stakeholders to better understand the impact of current and future AI advancements from a consumer-firm perspective. The discussion will also include several examples of how advances in machine learning allow marketing researchers to investigate how emphasizing nonmaterial and material ESG factors may affect firm value, uncover industry leaders and laggards in racial diversity in advertising, and examine its impact on consumer purchase intentions.
Closing the Gap: Navigating Complexities and Contradictions In the Mitigation of Algorithmic Bias [RSVP]
Time & Location: Nov.16 12:30-13:30 EST @ Zoom
Featuring Speaker: Miranda Bogen is the founding director of the AI Governance Lab at the Center for Democracy & Technology.
Dozens of policy proposals and interventions have attempted to address actual and potential cases of algorithmic bias, particularly in systems that have consequential effects on people’s lives. While these proposals commonly include mandates for proactive measurement to detect such biases, they rarely specify how to accomplish what must come next: preventing or rectifying the observed fairness gaps. Technical researchers have made some progress toward the development of theoretical approaches to mitigating algorithmic bias, but these methods have tended to be misaligned with policy expectations, be inapplicable or insufficiently effective in critical circumstances where fairness mitigation is likely to be expected or required, and fail to grapple with practical constraints.
This talk will delve into key tensions and open questions that emerge when attempting to mitigate algorithmic bias, exploring the complex interplay between legal, technical, and policy realities that will need to be resolved in order to effectively tackle algorithmic bias.
From Fundamental Physics to AI: An Emerging Computational Universe [RSVP]
Time & Location: Nov.29 13:00-14:00 EST @ Northeastern University, Egan Research Center, Raytheon Amphitheater / Zoom
Featuring Speaker:
Stephen Wolfram is the creator of Mathematica, Wolfram|Alpha and the Wolfram Language; the author of A New Kind of Science; the originator of the Wolfram Physics Project; and the founder and CEO of Wolfram Research.
AI Conferences
UCL NeuroAI Annual Conference 2023 [RSVP]
Time & Location: Nov.28 05:00-13:30 EST @ Zoom
Featuring Speaker:
[5:45 AM EST] Prof. Murray Shanahan, Cognitive Robotics, Imperial College London
[6:15 AM EST] Dr Maria Eckstein, Research Scientist, DeepMind
[7:15 AM EST] Dr Ann Duan, Senior Research Fellow and Group Leader, Sainsbury Wellcome Centre
[7:45 AM EST] Prof. Christopher Summerfield, Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Oxford
[10:15 AM EST] Prof. Ila Fiete, Department of Brain & Cognitive Sciences and Associate Member of the McGovern Institute, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
[10:45 AM EST] Prof. Timothy Behrens, Computational Neuroscience, University of Oxford
[11:15 AM EST] Dr Alexandra Keinath, Assistant Professor, University of Illinois Chicago
The 2023 UCL NeuroAI Annual Conference features leading speakers from around the world at the cutting edge of machine learning and neuroscience. The rise of AI has gathered pace in recent years and will continue to fundamentally change our ways of life. This flagship NeuroAI event aims to foster collaboration and discussion between machine learning researchers and neuroscientists.