What did you learn from today's speaker, Alborz Geramifard from Meta? What was the best question from the audience? Did you ask it?Unlike the other Discussions, you will not be able to read the responses until you have posted. You get a point for posting. The posting window will be open at 4 pm.
Over zoom: https://yale.zoom.us/j/91280742192 Not recorded.
Bio: Alborz Geramifard is a research science director at Meta working on reinforcement learning (RL). Previously he led the Conversational AI at Meta where the team brought the end-to-end approach for dialog management using LLMs into product (https://ai.facebook.com/blog/project-cairaoke/). Prior to joining Facebook, he led the conversational AI team at Amazon Alexa and created more than a dozen of NLU models shipped into production. He obtained his PhD from MIT and MSc from University of Alberta, both in RL. Alborz was the recipient of the NSERC scholarships 2010-2012. He has contributed to the community in various roles including the guest editor for Machine Learning Journal and AI Magazine and Area Chair for EMNLP, NAACL and ACL.
Abstract: Meta's mission is to empower people to build community and bring the world closer together through artificial intelligence. As part of this mission, Meta believes that augmented reality and metaverse will be the future platform for connectivity for which conversation and interactional AI systems are going to be a critical component. Even today, millions of people use natural-language interfaces via in-home devices, phones, or messaging channels such as Messenger to connect with each other. We strive to create new interactional technologies that have a deep understanding of the context and deliver a personalized experience to the user that is both task-oriented and empathic. Moreover, users are in charge of driving the interaction rather than following a predefined interaction flow. The next generation of interactional AI systems will be multi-modal and pro-active, integrating cues across several modalities to provide creative and on-spot response to the users through augmented reality enabled devices.
Reminder: submit the project on the zoo using the submit process. We are NOT using gradescope for the project. You should copy your files to the zoo and then execute the following command:
/c/cs458/submit 6 filename[s]That is, use assignment 6 for the final project.
Each of these projects will give a presentation the week of April 22nd, either Monday the 22nd or Wednesday the 24th, as specified.
Also, if you have a solo project, but would like to give a presentation, let me know.
I do not expect the project to be completed at that time. The presentation, which should be 10 minutes or so, should explain the idea and your approach. If you have results, you may certainly share them.
Wednesday April 24th.
What magical trick makes us intelligent? The trick is that there is no trick. The power of intelligence stems from our vast diversity, not from any single, perfect principle. —Marvin Minsky, The Society of Mind, p. 308