The AI Visions speaker series presents an immersive exploration into the world of generative AI. The series features talks and workshops led by leaders, visionaries, artists, researchers, professionals, entrepreneurs, and educators offering insights into AI’s practical applications, techniques and implementations. Designed for those new to AI as well as advanced learners, the series is a comprehensive overview of the latest methods and encourages participants to apply these tools in their own fields of interest.
Hosts: Dr. Roy Shilkrot, Prof. Pattie Maes
Fall’24 Speakers
We will host a number of prominent speakers from the world of AI, all leaders and practitioners that will share their insights and methods that move the global AI community. This semester we are very proud to have speakers from Anthropic, Hugging Face, Google, Cohere, Leonardo.AI, FAL and other esteemed institutions and companies.
List of speakers:
- Sara Hooker, Head of Cohere for AI Research
- Yair Adato, CEO at Bria AI
- Alex Albert, Head of Developer Relations at Anthropic
- Ethan Smith, Co-founder and Lead Research at Leonardo.ai
- Nataniel Ruiz, Research Scientist at Google
- Jonathan Fischoff, Research Engineer at FAL
- Omer Bar Tal, Founding Scientist at Pika Labs
- Merve Noyan, Open-Source at Hugging Face
- Piotr Skalski, Research Engineer at Roboflow
- Yael Vinker, Postdoctoral Researcher at MIT CSAIL
Previous Years
Fall’23 Speakers include: Prof. Ethan Mollick (Wharton School), Guillermo Rauch (CEO Founder @ Vercel), Lior Sinclair (Founder @ AlphaSignal), Santiago Valdarrama.
Fall’22 Speakers (class page) include: Emad Mostaque (Founder @ Stability AI), David Ha (Founder @ Sakana AI), Poli Passos (🤗).
MAS.S61 Fall 2024
The class portion of AI Visions is open for student registrations for Fall 2024 semester. The class runs as a seminar with attendance and final project obligations. We will take the semester to immerse in AI by reviewing weekly advancements and building projects.
Location: E15-359 (some sessions will be remote)
Time: Thursdays 3-5PM ET
Instructors: Dr. Roy Shilkrot, Prof. Pattie Maes
Units: 0-6-0