CBMM | Quest - Brains, Minds, and Machines Seminar Series: Using AI to accelerate scientific discovery

Speaker: Dr. Demis Hassabis, Founder and CEO , DeepMind

Date: Tuesday, April 05, 2022

Time: 4:30 PM to 6:00 PM Note: all times are in the Eastern Time Zone

Public: Yes

Location: MIT Lecture Hall 26-100 and via Live Stream.

Event Type: Seminar

Room Description: MIT Building 26, Lecture Hall 26-100

Host: Prof. Tomaso A. Poggio

Contact: Kris Brewer, brew@mit.edu

Relevant URL: https://cbmm.mit.edu/news-events/events/cbmm-quest-brains-minds-and-machines-seminar-series-using-ai-accelerate

Speaker URL: https://deepmind.com/about#leadership

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Reminders to: seminars@csail.mit.edu

Reminder Subject: TALK: CBMM | Quest - Brains, Minds, and Machines Seminar Series: Using AI to accelerate scientific discovery

*Doors open for seating at 4:15pm*

The Spring 2022 Brains, Minds, and Machines (BMM) Seminar Series will be hosted in a hybrid format. Please see the information included below regarding attending the event either in-person or watch via live stream.

Abstract: The past decade has seen incredible advances in the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI). DeepMind has been in the vanguard of many of these big breakthroughs, pioneering the development of self-learning systems like AlphaGo, the first program to beat the world champion at the complex game of Go. Games have proven to be a great training ground for developing and testing AI algorithms, but the aim at DeepMind has always been to build general learning systems ultimately capable of solving important problems in the real world. I believe we are on the cusp of an exciting new era in science with AI poised to be a powerful tool for accelerating scientific discovery itself. We recently demonstrated this potential with our AlphaFold system, a solution to the 50-year grand challenge of protein structure prediction, culminating in the release of the most accurate and complete picture of the human proteome.

Guidance for attending in-person:

MIT attendees:
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Non-MIT attendees:

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Research Areas:
Algorithms & Theory, AI & Machine Learning, Computational Biology, Human-Computer Interaction

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Created by Kathleen Sullivan at Thursday, March 17, 2022 at 5:17 PM.