[CTN] CTN Seminar: Roland Memisevic (20BN), 3:30 Tuesday Jan 22, E5 2004

[Bryan Tripp]

Hi everyone,

Just a reminder about the talk tomorrow. Hope to see you there.

Bryan


On Thu, Jan 17, 2019 at 3:35 PM Bryan Tripp <bptripp at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> Please join us for next week's talk by Roland Memisevic, who was
> previously a professor at MILA, and now has a company in Toronto. This talk
> is a bit outside our usual scope, but it's a great example of getting
> neural networks to develop a sophisticated understanding of visual signals.
>
> Bryan
>
> Building a context-aware AI avatar
> Roland Memisevic
>
> At TwentyBN we are building an AI system that interacts with you while
> "looking" at you - allowing it to understand your behaviour, your
> surroundings and the full context of the engagement.  At the core of this
> technology is a crowd acting-platform, that allows humans to engage with
> and teach our system about everyday aspects of our lives and of our
> physical world.  This allows us to instill a human-like "common sense"
> understanding of everyday scenes and situations in neural networks, and to
> train them to have conversations with rich visual context.  I will also
> describe how this approach is powering "Millie", our interactive digital
> avatar we unveiled at NeurIPS 2018.
>
>
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