Phase Transition in AI: Opportunities and Gaps Towards Making AI Real
Ece Kamar
2024 Expo Track Keynote
Abstract
Recent advances in AI not only created promises for what AI can do, but also introduced questions about how to bring this promise to reality in real-world applications in a responsible way. In this talk, I will describe my journey at Microsoft Research from being amazed by the sparks of GPT-4 to understanding limitations of current family of models and driving research on what comes next. I will discuss research directions we are pursuing to make future AI systems more efficient, sustainable, controllable and valuable through innovations in model training, agent technologies and engineering practices. I will conclude with reflections on our unified responsibly in balancing the promise of AI with rising risks and concerns.
Speaker
Ece Kamar
Ece Kamar is the Managing Director of the AI Frontiers Lab, where she leads research and development towards pushing the frontiers of AI capabilities. She has a decade of experience studying the impact of AI on society and developing AI systems that are reliable, unbiased and trustworthy. Her work integrates techniques from artificial intelligence, human-computer interaction, responsible AI, and AI safety. She has been instrumental in building the Responsible AI efforts inside Microsoft. She serves as Technical Advisor for Microsoft’s Internal Committee on AI, Engineering and Ethics. Ece is an Affiliate Faculty in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington is currently serving on the National Academies' Computer Science and Telecommunications Board (CSTB).
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