Pint of Science NYC Festival: The Digital Art
Digital technology is now essential to the functioning of the modern world. Computers enable global communication, successfully trade stocks, and beat world-renowned Go players. Less impressively, they also help you find a meal and your next awkward date. Researcher James McInerny will discuss how machine learning forces us to consider the creativity of computers. Entrepreneur Mike Battaglia will consider the life-saving power of ingenuity and code. $10 TICKET INCLUDES (1) BEER/DRINK TICKET & BOWL OF POPCORN!
Machine Learning to Create: Will Computers Ever Be Creative?
James McInerney (Postdoc at Columbia University) New breakthroughs in automatically discovering structure from massive amounts of data (e.g., images, text, behavior) have enable unprecedented new applications with machine learning. But these same methods offer a hint of a more surprising future: one in which the most creative minds may be artificial, not human. In this talk, I discuss present and future developments in machine learning and their implications for computational creativity.
How to Become a Superhero and Save the World
Mike Battagila (Co-founder and CEO of Triomi) In 2011, after the Haitian earthquake, I fixed a broken EKG machine with guitar strings and duct tape and saved a patient’s life. Today, I am the CEO of Triomi Medical, where I have co-invented a low-cost, clinical-grade mobile EKG for use in developing countries. Actually changing the world, particularly from the perspective of a startup, requires one to adapt to some extremely counterintuitive psychological phenomena. In this talk I go in depth about what I’ve learned along the way, and how a series of incidents in which I saw things differently led ultimately to the creation of Triomi.
Alewife
5-14 51st Ave, Long Island City, NY, 11101
When: Mon., May. 23, 2016 at 7:00 pm - 9:30 pm
Digital technology is now essential to the functioning of the modern world. Computers enable global communication, successfully trade stocks, and beat world-renowned Go players. Less impressively, they also help you find a meal and your next awkward date. Researcher James McInerny will discuss how machine learning forces us to consider the creativity of computers. Entrepreneur Mike Battaglia will consider the life-saving power of ingenuity and code. $10 TICKET INCLUDES (1) BEER/DRINK TICKET & BOWL OF POPCORN!
Machine Learning to Create: Will Computers Ever Be Creative?
James McInerney (Postdoc at Columbia University) New breakthroughs in automatically discovering structure from massive amounts of data (e.g., images, text, behavior) have enable unprecedented new applications with machine learning. But these same methods offer a hint of a more surprising future: one in which the most creative minds may be artificial, not human. In this talk, I discuss present and future developments in machine learning and their implications for computational creativity.
How to Become a Superhero and Save the World
Mike Battagila (Co-founder and CEO of Triomi) In 2011, after the Haitian earthquake, I fixed a broken EKG machine with guitar strings and duct tape and saved a patient’s life. Today, I am the CEO of Triomi Medical, where I have co-invented a low-cost, clinical-grade mobile EKG for use in developing countries. Actually changing the world, particularly from the perspective of a startup, requires one to adapt to some extremely counterintuitive psychological phenomena. In this talk I go in depth about what I’ve learned along the way, and how a series of incidents in which I saw things differently led ultimately to the creation of Triomi.
Alewife
5-14 51st Ave, Long Island City, NY, 11101
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