ARC Prize @ Boston University

Speakers: Mike Knoop (Co-Founder, Zapier) François Chollet (Founder, Keras)

Title: ARC Prize @ Boston University

Event Overview: Join Mike Knoop (Co-Founder, Zapier) and François Chollet (Founder, Keras) on the ARC Prize 2024 University Tour, exploring frontier AGI research that challenges current industry benchmarks and beliefs. Forever the great dream of the field of AI, AGI that can invent and discover alongside us would bring unimaginable benefits to humanity, yet we're no closer to true general intelligence than we were in 2017. No amount of scale will allow transformers alone to efficiently learn new skills the way humans do. 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. Plus pizza. This event is open to Graduate Students and PhD students who are interested in AGI, Neurosciences, and LLM-Alternative AI architectures. All knowledge levels are encouraged to attend and participate. This event is co-organized by Boston University’s Hariri Institute. Any questions about the program, please contact Greg Kamradt, ARC Prize Co-Lead. gk@infmonk.com

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.

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