Introduction to Deep Learning for a General Audience

In the past decade, artificial intelligence has entered an accelerated phase of development. The media brouhaha over Google's Lambda and recent release of ChatGPT are only the most well-known in what has been an upward curve of design innovations across the board, and most acutely in natural language processing.

This accelerated evolution is due to the success of deep learning and artificial neural networks.

Despite media obsession with artificial intelligence, public understanding of the general architecture behind neural networks is vague. You often hear the phrase "black box", but why exactly are neural networks a black box? Behind the black box you have a highly parametrized and calibrated architecture composed of nodes called neurons and information that's processed in parallel fashion through them for highly adaptive learning tasks.

In this lecture, University of Toronto Professor and Vector Institute faculty member, Jimmy Ba will introduce artificial intelligence to a general audience. Dr. Ba will cover the nuts and bolts of neural nets, drawing from his extensive and innovative research in AI.

Among his many accomplishments, Dr. Jimmy Ba has developed the Adam Optimizer, one of the go-to algorithms to train deep learning models. Dr. Ba completed his undergraduate degree, Master’s degree and PhD at the University of Toronto under the supervision of Geoffrey Hinton, Brendan Frey and Ruslan Salakhutdinov.

The lecture will take place at the North York Central library auditorium. Registration is required as space is limited. Talk will be followed by Q&A.

The program is open to everyone. For further information please contact [email protected].

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