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The Inaugural Lecture of Professor Tim Rocktäschel

Tim Rocktäschel's Inaugural Lecture on Open-Endedness and General Intelligence - 2024.

Tim Rocktäschel's Inaugural Lecture

About Tim Rocktäschel's Inaugural Lecture

Professor Tim Rocktäschel (Professor of Artificial Intelligence) talks about his research towards developing increasingly capable and general Artificial Intelligence (AI).

Central to this research direction is Open-Endedness: the attempt to create an AI that endlessly improves and expands its capabilities.

In particular, this lecture focuses on three areas: training autonomous and robust agents that can set themselves problems and goals, training large-scale world models which can provide AIs with endless environments to learn in, and lastly, the connection of Open-Endedness methods to Large Language Models to develop AI that can improve itself.

Tim Rocktäschel's Inaugural Lecture

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About Tim

Tim Rocktaschel headshot at his inaugural lecture
Tim is a Professor of Artificial Intelligence at the Centre for Artificial Intelligence in the Department of Computer Science at University College London (UCL) where he is a PI of the UCL Deciding, Acting, and Reasoning with Knowledge (DARK) Lab.

 

He is also a Senior Staff Research Scientist and the Open-Endedness Team Lead at Google DeepMind, and a Scholar of the European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems (ELLIS).

Read more about Tim.