CITP Book Discussion“AI Snake Oil: What Artificial Intelligence Can Do, What It Can’t and How to Tell the Difference” by Arvind Narayanan and Sayash KapoorThe discussion will be followed by a reception from 4 – 5 p.m. in the CITP open space.The book is available to purchase online and at Labyrinth Books, 122 Nassau Street.
Open source AI models can play a vital role in promoting transparency, competition, and experimentation in AI. Two-thirds of recent foundation models were released openly, and popular repositories now boast over a million open models – spanning everything from robotics and climate prediction to text, image, and voice generation…
Mathematical engineering theories are useful in numerous ways, whether in providing fundamental relationships between the capabilities of emerging technologies and the resources they require; establishing fundamental benchmarks to evaluate new technologies on absolute scales, rather than only compared to previous technologies;…
A talk featuring author, Josh Cowen about his new book, "The Privateers: How Billionaires Created a Culture War and Sold School Voucher", a deep-dive investigation of education privatization that reveals voucher programs as the faulty products of decades of work by wealthy patrons and influential conservatives.
The web PKI, which is used to secure TLS-based web communication (HTTPS), is one of the most frequently used network security systems, enabling billions of users to securely connect to the world wide web and prevent the theft of user credentials, protect the privacy of personal information, impede stealthy wiretapping, and…
Climate change is changing the characteristic of weather extremes and slow changing climatic trends (physical climate risk). These combined with rising concentration of people and assets in high-risk areas, aging infrastructure and various macroeconomic factors, are leading to growing financial impacts on people, businesses,…
ERS Seminars are held on the Wednesdays noted from noon-1pm in 165 Wallace Hall. Lunch is provided. Sponsorship of an event does not constitute institutional endorsement of external speakers or views presented.
A lively conversation between two of the brightest minds on the frontlines of democracy focused on the challenges and opportunities of the contemporary moment — including voting rights, reproductive freedom, government transparency, federalism, civil liberties, and more — with an emphasis on what’s at stake in NJ and the nation…
We are at a transformational junction in computing, in the midst of an explosion in capabilities of foundational AI models that may soon match or exceed typical human abilities for a wide variety of cognitive tasks, a milestone often termed Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). Achieving AGI (or even closely approaching it)…
