The Princeton AI Club is thrilled to announce its kick-off event for the coming academic year, and
we have a special guest speaker for you – Prof. Yann LeCun from Meta-FAIR & New York University!
When? September 1st at 11:30 am Eastern Time (ET)!
Where? Computer Science Building, Room 105, Princeton University, and virtually.
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Speaker: Prof. Yann LeCun (Meta-FAIR & New York University)
Title: From Machine Learning to Autonomous Intelligence
Date: September 1st at 11:30 am Eastern Time (ET). Our brunch and social event will start at 11:00 am.
Abstract: How could machines learn as efficiently as humans and animals?
How could machines learn to reason and plan?
How could machines learn representations of percepts and action plans at multiple levels of abstraction, enabling them to reason, predict, and plan at multiple time horizons?
I will propose a possible path towards autonomous intelligent agents, based on a new modular cognitive architecture and a somewhat new self-supervised training paradigm. The centerpiece of the proposed architecture is a configurable predictive world model that allows the agent to plan. Behavior and learning are driven by a set of differentiable intrinsic cost functions. The world model uses a new type of energy-based model architecture called H-JEPA (Hierarchical Joint Embedding Predictive Architecture). H-JEPA learns hierarchical abstract representations of the world that are simultaneously maximally informative and maximally predictable.
The corresponding working paper is available here: https://openreview.net/forum?id=BZ5a1r-kVsf
Bio:
Yann LeCun is VP & Chief AI Scientist at Meta and Silver Professor at NYU affiliated with the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences & the Center for Data Science. He was the founding Director of FAIR and of the NYU Center for Data Science. He received
an Engineering Diploma from ESIEE (Paris) and a PhD from Sorbonne Université. After a postdoc in Toronto he joined AT&T Bell Labs in 1988, and AT&T Labs in 1996 as Head of Image Processing Research. He joined NYU as a professor in 2003 and Meta/Facebook in
2013. His interests include AI machine learning, computer perception, robotics and computational neuroscience. He is the recipient of the 2018 ACM Turing Award (with Geoffrey Hinton and Yoshua Bengio) for "conceptual and engineering breakthroughs that have
made deep neural networks a critical component of computing", a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, the French Académie des Sciences.