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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Good evening, First off, please note that we will be meeting at CohesionForce this week. We’ll be using the door in the back of the building, so you probably want to park there. The address is below in the details list. This week David and I will team up to present applications that we have […]
We will be meeting at Deloitte this week. The best way to park and get to the office is via the large parking lot on the west side of the building (across from Food City). You can enter the building from that side and head upstairs to the 2nd floor. The address is below in the details […]
This week we will have two smaller presentations between myself and Matt Brooks. We’ll meet up at CohesionForce again – so come in the back door to our large conference room. My presentation will be on using Modal to host a serverless AI endpoint with nearly zero setup. The use case we’ll cover is to […]
This week we’re switching things up. Instead of a focused meetup with presentations, we’ll be having a casual AI discussion night. Weather permitting, we’ll meet at Stovehouse common area on Wednesday night. David Showalter will be there from 5:30–7:30 PM to facilitate a few tables for the group, unless it’s absolutely storming. Come on out, grab […]
Google Meet – https://meet.google.com/yie-fbgk-juj What would it take for an AI to be a useful assistant for a large tabletop campaign simulation? Not just a chatbot that vaguely remembers lore, but a system that knows which NPCs know which secrets, which factions are connected, which rumors came from which source pages, and which claims can […]
This week we will be in-person at Deloitte with Lorin Bales presenting. This will be a deep dive into the engineering and life-saving potential of open-source Photoplethysmography (PPG) technology. This presentation explores how custom edge devices and applied machine learning can decode cardiovascular signals to prevent driver impairment, track pilot perfusion, and ultimately democratize health data […]
July arrived earlier than expected! We’ll be over at CohesionForce this week to cover a dataset that is a great resource for training a visual navigation system. We may also have some time to cover the associated paper, which has references to previous work that is also a good trail to follow. The paper is: Cuaran, […]
This week we will meet VIRTUALLY to walk through the paper associated with the dataset that we unboxed last week. We’ll go through the results they found, and then we will check out a few of the models and their architecture. The paper is: Cuaran, J., Baquero Velasquez, A. E., Valverde Gasparino, M., Uppalapati, N. […]
Next week we have the privilege of having Wes Winkler discuss his recent work on the intersection of Generative AI and Cognition. From Wes: We’ll cover: How the use of language is a symbolic abstraction layer that sits between the environment and environmentally situated signals, boundaries, and skill based affordances. How common AI implementation patterns […]
