The Fiction Machine: Distinguished Lecture with Léon Bottou

Léon Bottou of the Flatiron Institute, a longtime machine learning researcher formerly at Facebook AI Research and Microsoft Research, gives the Allen School’s Distinguished Lecture on “The Fiction Machine.” The talk models modern AI systems as machines that read a story and generate a continuation that fits its narrative demands, and asks what such systems can compute and whether they can support inferences about the real world. The lecture is co-hosted by the Allen School and AI@UW, free and open to the public, and will be streamed live on the Allen School’s YouTube channel. Event details