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VASC Seminar
Niv Cohen
New York University
Discovering and Erasing Undesired Concepts
Abstract: The rapid growth of generative models allows an ever-increasing variety of capabilities. Yet, these models may also produce undesired content such as unsafe or misleading images, private information, or copyrighted material. In this talk, I will discuss practical methods to prevent undesired generations. First, I will show how the challenge of avoiding undesired generations […]
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PhD Thesis Defense
Paul Nadan
Mass-Constrained Robotic Climbing on Irregular Terrain
Abstract: Climbing robots can operate in steep and unstructured environments that are inaccessible to other ground robots, with applications ranging from the inspection of artificial structures on Earth to the exploration of natural terrain features throughout the solar system. Climbing robots for planetary exploration face many challenges to deployment, including mass restrictions, irregular surface features, […]
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PhD Thesis Proposal
Samuel Triest
Towards Annotation-Free Visual-Geometric Representations and Learning for Navigation in Unstructured Environments
Abstract: Navigation in unstructured environments is a capability critical to many robotics applications such as forestry, construction, disaster response and defense. In these domains, robots have the potential to eliminate much of the dull, dirty and/or dangerous work that is currently performed by humans. Unfortunately, these environments pose a unique set of challenges for navigation […]
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RI Seminar
Ken Goldberg
Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley
Unfamiliar Intelligence: Art, AI, and Robots
Abstract: Shortly after the 1918 pandemic, the word "robot" was coined in a play about mechanical workers organizing a rebellion to defeat their human overlords. A century later, emerging advances in Artificial Intelligence and robotics, fueled by venture capital and governments, are disrupting labor, trade, and political stability. Claims about “superintelligence” and existential threats to [...]
