Place holder for a virtual paper review Join us virtually next Wednesday for a focused discussion of two recent AI papers: Google DeepMind’s framework for measuring progress toward AGI and Stanford HAI’s AI Index Report 2026. We’ll look at how AGI is being defined, what the latest AI data actually shows, and what remains hard […]

  This event is going to be virtual only due to weather. This week we have Sumaita Rahman presenting the paper “Training a Generally Curious Agent” that was previously presented at 2025 ICML. The paper provides a fine-tuning method that improves AI agents’ ability to explore new environments by first exposing a language model to diverse […]

This week we have Tom Plunkett reviewing his recent experience at the NVIDIA GPU Technology Conference and winning the associated hackathon. We will be in the Executive Conference Room this week. Here’s the breakdown of what Tom plans to cover: What I saw at the NVIDIA GTC conference in San Jose March 16-19. Competing and Winning the […]