Latest posts tagged with #Upperbound on Bluesky
The legendary John Carmack at #upperbound:
- Current AI focus is RL (with Richard Sutton) solving Atari games
- Thinking in line with the Alberta Plan.
- It was a misstep to start working too low-level (e.g., at the cuda level). I kept stepping up the stack chain until now in pytorch
Bathed in red light, an audience watched a panel on AI Insights for Public Policy Makers. Everyone wears glowing red headsets; the room is strangely silent, as we listen to the three panelists in our headphones.
From left - Sen Simons in a light grey flannel pinstripe suit with purple Fluevogs, Henri Vilandre of Mila, Nidhi Hegde of Amii, and NDP MLA and shadow technology minister Nathan Ip
I spent this morning at Upper Bound, a huge international AI conference hosted by Amii, the Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute, listening in on sessions about AI ethics and AI public policy. #yeg #Edmonton #UpperBound #Amii #AI #ualberta @nathanip.bsky.social
Thanks #amii for the invite to speak about our work with AI and plants at #Upperbound 2025. What an awesome event!
I did the thing! Three stages. Each with their own channel. Participants tune into your stage color (mine was red). Pretty neat. #Upperbound #AI #Speaker
