Symposium Week
About this week
This week’s schedule is a little different from our usual meetings — 7 pm arrival, social & food; 7:30 pm presentations and discussions; 9 pm wrap-up. Great creative work is historically done together, across backgrounds and disciplines, in small, high-trust groups — and a reading club is a seed for that kind of boundary-pushing work in engineering, science, art, and more. It doesn’t have to be directly ML related: bring something that excites you — a paper of your own, someone else’s work, art, computer engineering, bio, neuro, history, poems, books, podcasts, a song, or a theorem; everything else is fair game.
We still have room for more papers — if you’d like to present, fill out the short sign-up form or send a message. Presentations run 5 to ~15 minutes, each followed by an MLn-style discussion.
Join us at CASI!
Presented
What people brought and presented this week:
- Chris Shi — From Worm to Human
- Dustin Juliano — Concepts of Formal AI, Ep. 1: AI Program (LinkedIn)
- Taeho Lee — LLM-Powered Drones Could Reverse the “Democratization of Warfare” (Carnegie AI Safety)
- Franca Ellerman — Urban congestion relief experiments through routing-app interventions (Nature) and “God has helped us, and so will AI”: How Boko Haram Uses Frontier AI — Antonia Juelich (CASP)
- Qiran Sun — PDEs for Transformers (Google Drive)
- Juan Ortega — HCI: talking to robots (Google Slides)
- James Waters — Slowdown, Cyblock
- Eddie Friedman — ALIGNMENT — on dating an AI researcher (Mindslice)
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