ARC Prize University Tour @BU

For Boston University Graduate Students and PhD students who are interested in AGI, neurosciences, and LLM-Alternative AI architectures.

Time: Tuesday, October 8, 1-3 p.m.
Location: Center for Computing & Data Sciences, 665 Commonwealth Avenue, CDS 1101
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Event Overview: The purpose of ARC Prize is to redirect more AI research focus toward architectures that might lead toward artificial general intelligence (AGI) and ensure that notable breakthroughs do not remain a trade secret at a big corporate AI lab. Join Mike Knoop (Co-Founder and Head of AI, Zapier) and François Chollet (Senior Software Engineering, Google, and Creator, Keras) on the ARC Prize 2024 University Tour, to explore frontiers in AGI research that challenge current industry benchmarks and beliefs. Together, we’ll dive deep into technical approaches designed to defeat the ARC-AGI benchmark and the past, present, and future of ARC Prize – a $1M competition toward open AGI progress.

Co-Hosts Bio:

Mike Knoop co-founded Zapier, where he led all product and engineering before shifting focus to AI R&D in the summer of 2022. At Zapier, he launched Zaps, Transfer, Tables & Interfaces, AI Actions, and Central (AI bots), as well as leading Zapier’s OpenAI partnership (ChatGPT plugin and GPT store launch). Mike partnered with notable AI researcher François Chollet to launch ARC Prize, a $1M+ competition re-start and open source AGI progress. Mike is a builder with a background in engineering, math, research, and programming and is passionate about frontier and open source AGI research.

François Chollet is an engineer and researcher in artificial intelligence, Founder of Keras. He received his Diplôme d’Ingénieur from École Nationale Supérieure de Techniques Avancées, Paris. He has been awarded the Global Swiss AI award for breakthroughs in artificial intelligence. He is the author of “Deep Learning with Python” and is the creator of the Keras, a Python deep learning library used industry wide. In 2019 he introduced the ARC-AGI benchmark in his celebrated paper, On the Measure of Intelligence. In 2024, he co-founded ARC Prize, a $1M competition to beat and open source a solution to ARC-AGI.

Faculty Host: Yannis Paschalidis, Hariri Institute Director, Distinguished Professor of Engineering