[NYC AI Event Picks] October Choice
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We aim to curate high quality events for anyone enthusiastic about AI! We do the heavy-lift for you, so you can find what you need with ease! Event details can be found after the overview.
Deep Dive Talks: NeuroAI and GenAI
[NeuroAI] Loss shaping enhances exact gradient learning with EventProp in Spiking Neural Networks
DATE & TIME: Wednesday, October 18th 2023 | 9 - 10am EST
LOCATION: Zoom. Registration.
[NeuroAI] From Mind to Motion: How the Brain Directs Behaviors
DATE & TIME: Wednesday, November 1st 2023 | 6:30 pm-7:45 pm EST
LOCATION: Zoom. Registration.
[GenAI] Generative Agents: Interactive Simulacra of Human Behavior
DATE & TIME: Thursday, October 19 2023 | 4:00pm-6:00pm EST
LOCATION: Zoom. Registration.
Deep Dive Talks: AI Applications
AI ML: What AI Founders are Building & how to use Azure OpenAI Service
DATE & TIME: Tuesday, Oct 17 2023 | 06:30 PM-08:30 PM EST
LOCATION: Supermomos.
NYC AI Users do New York Tech Week!: Visualize Any Data & AI in Medicine
DATE & TIME: Tuesday, Oct 17 2023 | 07:30 PM-10:30 PM
LOCATION: Supermomos.
AI and the Law: The Latest on IP, Copyright, and More
DATE & TIME: Tuesday, October 24 |11am - 12pm EDT
LOCATION: NYU School of Law, Greenberg Lounge, Zoom
AI Conferences
[NYC] The AI Summit New York
DATE & TIME: December 6-7 2023. Early Bird Ends on Nov.1
LOCATION: Javits Center
[Boston] AI Business Leaders Conference
DATE & TIME: Wednesday, October 18, 2023 | 9 AM to 5 PM EST
LOCATION: Boston or Online
[NYC] NYC Tech Week
DATE & TIME: Oct 16 2023 - Oct 22 2023
LOCATION: Various.
0. Deep Dive Talks: NeuroAI and GenAI
UCL NeuroAI Monthly Talk Series - Loss shaping enhances exact gradient learning with EventProp in Spiking Neural Networks
Featuring Speaker: Professor Thomas Nowotny, Professor Of Informatics, University of Sussex, Faculty of Life Sciences
Registration: Zoom
The last decade has seen phenomenal advances in the fields of machine learning (e.g. deep learning, reinforcement learning, and AI). While these changes have already had considerable impact on most areas of science they hold a particular resonance for neuroscience. Crucially, AI shares a common lineage with neuroscience and fundamentally machine learning and the brain employ similar computations to process and compress information. For these reasons AI provides a means to emulate neural functions and the circuits supporting them, providing insights to aid our understanding of the brain and cognition. Equally, AI tools provide a means to discover, segment, and track distinct neural and behavioural states - yielding more efficient experiments and accelerating the pace of discovery. In turn, this understanding feeds back into the design of more effective AI architectures and models.
Columbia University Zuckerman Institute - Brain Insight Lecture: From Mind to Motion: How the Brain Directs Behaviors
Featuring Speaker: Featuring Gwyneth Card, PhD, and Mark Churchland, PhD; moderated by Sumaira Zamurrad, PhD
Registration: Zoom
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.
MIT - BCS Colloquium Series: Generative Agents: Interactive Simulacra of Human Behavior
Featuring Speaker: Prof. Michael Bernstein
Registration: Zoom
Believable proxies of human attitudes and behavior can empower applications ranging from immersive environments to social policy interventions. However, the last quarter century has seen a slow recession of human behavioral simulation as a method, in part because traditional simulations have been unable to capture the complexity and contingency of human behavior. I argue that modern artificial intelligence models allow us to re-examine this limitation. I make my case through generative agents: computational software agents that simulate believable human behavior. Generative agents enable us to populate an interactive sandbox environment inspired by The Sims, where end users can interact with a small town of twenty five agents using natural language. Our generative agent architecture empowers agents to remember, reflect, and plan — enabling them to wake up, cook breakfast, and head to work; artists paint, while authors write; they form opinions, notice each other, and initiate conversations; they remember and reflect on days past as they plan the next day. Extending this line of argument, I explore how proxying human behavior and attitudes can help us design more effective online social spaces, understand the societal disagreement underlying modern AI models, and better embed societal values into our algorithms.
1. Deep Dive Talks: AI Applications
[Supermomos] AI ML: What AI Founders are Building & how to use Azure OpenAI Service
Featuring Speaker: Suyog Sonwalkar, Co-Founder of LastMile AI, Bishan Yang, Co-Founder of LAER AI
Registration: Supermomos
Discover the cutting-edge advancements in AI technology shaping NYC’s startup landscape as we feature 3 venture-backed founders doing lightning talks about what they are building. Network with industry professionals over drinks and light bites, hear lightning talks from visionary founders, explore the world of Azure OpenAI Service in a practical workshop, and continue the conversation in a relaxed networking atmosphere.
[Supermomos] NYC AI Users do New York Tech Week!: Visualize Any Data & AI in Medicine
Featuring Speaker: Dr. Ravi Parikh, Andriy Mulyar, a Series A tech founder
Registration: Supermomos
AI tools 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. Doctors will use it in various areas of medicine, and possibly everyone will use to it process and visualize any type of data, no matter how unstructured. To this end, New York AI Users will host at the Bryant Park-adjacent, wall-to-ceiling windowed 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 will bring 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 and the Law: The Latest on IP, Copyright, and More
Featuring Speaker: Prof.Fabio Bertoni, NYU, General Counsel (The New Yorker)
Learn the current legal issues in copyrighting AI-generated content, the liability risks when AI creates works, and what to look out for... all in a one-hour seminar.
This important conversation is directed to students, faculty, administrators, and anyone else grappling with an unprecedented host of decisions and dilemmas created by the widespread and powerful presence of artificial intelligence.
2. AI Conferences
The AI Summit New York
Registration: Early Bird Tickets ends on Nov.1st, get it now!
Featuring renowned Speakers from various industries, AI Summit provides a vigorous agenda as well networking opportunities!
AI Business Leaders Conference
Learn how to ignite your organization’s growth and stay ahead of the curve in the AI revolution at the Institute for Experiential AI’s annual business conference: Leading with AI, Responsibly!
Featuring Speakers:
Prof. Cynthia Dwork (Professor of Computer Science at Harvard University)
Michelle Gansle (VP of Global Insights and Analytics at McDonald’s)
Peter Norvig (Researcher at Google and Education Fellow at Stanford HAI)
Rudina Seseri (Founder and Managing Partner at Glasswing Ventures)
Registration: Sign up for Virtual or In Person Participation today!
NYC Tech Week
For a series of AI related events check out the NYC Tech Week!
Featuring Speakers: Too Many… Check out the event you like!
Registration: tech-week.com
AI Related Series:
Oct 16 AI Unleashed: Charting the GenAI Boom and Beyond at AWS & Lux's NY #TechWeek Kickoff!
Oct 17 AI Driven Content Creation
Oct 18 Obviously The Future: AI & Learning
Oct 18 AI & Capital Markets
Oct 19 How AI Will Disrupt your Industry
Oct 20 AI Happy Hour: Breaking Down Events and Risks in Real Tim
Oct 20 AI For Good Meet-Up
Oct 21 #NYTech Week Celebration - AI + Strategy + Rock 'n Roll! (Closing Party)