<div dir="ltr">This talk may be of broad interest to many of us.<div><br></div><div>Artur<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>From: <strong class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">Becky Shock</strong> <span dir="auto"><<a href="mailto:beckys@andrew.cmu.edu">beckys@andrew.cmu.edu</a>></span><br>Date: Fri, Aug 30, 2024 at 9:09 AM<br>Subject: Upcoming Seminar: Neil Thompson, Monday Faculty Research Seminar<br>To: <<a href="mailto:heinz-all-faculty@lists.andrew.cmu.edu">heinz-all-faculty@lists.andrew.cmu.edu</a>>, <<a href="mailto:heinz-phd@lists.andrew.cmu.edu">heinz-phd@lists.andrew.cmu.edu</a>>, Holly Wiberg <<a href="mailto:hwiberg@andrew.cmu.edu">hwiberg@andrew.cmu.edu</a>>, Anna Mayo <<a href="mailto:atmayo@andrew.cmu.edu">atmayo@andrew.cmu.edu</a>>, Evelyn Xiaoyue Gong <<a href="mailto:exiaoyue@andrew.cmu.edu">exiaoyue@andrew.cmu.edu</a>>, Manasvini Singh <<a href="mailto:manasvis@andrew.cmu.edu">manasvis@andrew.cmu.edu</a>>, Tom Mitchell <<a href="mailto:mitchell@andrew.cmu.edu">mitchell@andrew.cmu.edu</a>>, Christophe Combemale <<a href="mailto:ccombema@andrew.cmu.edu">ccombema@andrew.cmu.edu</a>>, Kait Pendrak <<a href="mailto:kpendrak@andrew.cmu.edu">kpendrak@andrew.cmu.edu</a>>, Brittany Calderon <<a href="mailto:bcaldero@andrew.cmu.edu">bcaldero@andrew.cmu.edu</a>>, <<a href="mailto:mrfrank@pitt.edu">mrfrank@pitt.edu</a>>, Steven Wray <<a href="mailto:swray2@andrew.cmu.edu">swray2@andrew.cmu.edu</a>>, Becky Shock <<a href="mailto:beckys@andrew.cmu.edu">beckys@andrew.cmu.edu</a>><br></div><br><br><div class="msg-5586689271763452690"><u></u>
<div class="m_-5586689271763452690body"><span><span style="display:none"></span><span><span></span><span style="display:none;font-size:1px;color:#fff;line-height:1px;height:0;max-height:0;width:0;max-width:0;opacity:0;overflow:hidden">Upcoming Seminar: Neil Thompson, Monday Faculty Research Seminar</span><span aria-hidden="true"></span><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" align="center" style="width:100%" class="m_-5586689271763452690body-container"><tbody><tr><td align="left"><div style="height:16px" aria-hidden="true"> </div><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" align="center" style="width:100%"><tbody><tr><td align="left"><span><p>--</p></span></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" align="center" style="width:100%"><tbody><tr><td style="border:solid 1px #dadce0;border-radius:8px;direction:rtl;font-size:0;padding:24px 32px;text-align:left;vertical-align:top" class="m_-5586689271763452690main-container-inner"><div style="font-size:13px;text-align:left;direction:ltr;display:inline-block;vertical-align:top;width:100%;overflow:hidden;word-wrap:break-word"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" width="100%" class="m_-5586689271763452690main-column-table-ltr" style="padding-right:32px;padding-left:0;table-layout:fixed"><tbody><tr><td style="padding:0;vertical-align:top"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" width="100%" style="table-layout:fixed"><tbody><tr><td style="font-size:0;padding:0;text-align:left;word-break:break-word;padding-bottom:2px"><div style="font-family:'Google Sans',Roboto,sans-serif;font-weight:400;font-size:22px;line-height:28px;color:#3c4043;text-decoration:none" class="m_-5586689271763452690primary-text" role="presentation"><span>Upcoming Seminar: Neil Thompson, Monday Faculty Research Seminar</span></div></td></tr><tr><td style="font-size:0;padding:0;text-align:left;word-break:break-word;padding-bottom:24px"><div style="font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;font-size:14px;line-height:20px;letter-spacing:0.2px;color:#3c4043;text-decoration:none" class="m_-5586689271763452690primary-text" role="presentation"><span aria-hidden="true"></span><span>Monday Sep 9, 2024 ⋅ 12:30pm – 1:40pm (Eastern Time - New York)</span></div></td></tr><tr><td style="font-size:0;padding:0;text-align:left;word-break:break-word;padding-bottom:24px"><div style="font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;font-size:14px;line-height:20px;letter-spacing:0.2px;color:#3c4043;text-decoration:none" class="m_-5586689271763452690primary-text" role="presentation"><span><p>Please join us on <b>Monday, September 9th</b> from <b>12:30 PM – 01:40 PM</b> in <b>Hamburg Hall, Room 1002</b> as part of the Monday Faculty Research Seminar (MFRS). Lunch will be provided during the seminar. </p><p><br></p><p><b>Presenter: </b>Neil Thompson is the Director of the FutureTech research project at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab and a Principal Investigator at MIT’s Initiative on the Digital Economy.</p><p>Previously, he was an Assistant Professor of Innovation and Strategy at the MIT Sloan School of Management, where he co-directed the Experimental Innovation Lab (X-Lab), and a Visiting Professor at the Laboratory for Innovation Science at Harvard. He has advised businesses and government on the future of Moore’s Law, has been on National Academies panels on transformational technologies and scientific reliability, and is part of the Council on Competitiveness’ National Commission on Innovation & Competitiveness Frontiers.</p><p>He has a PhD in Business and Public Policy from Berkeley, where he also did Masters degrees in Computer Science and Statistics. He also has a masters in Economics from the London School of Economics, and undergraduate degrees in Physics and International Development. Prior to academia, He worked at organizations such as Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Bain and Company, the United Nations, the World Bank, and the Canadian Parliament.<br></p><p><br></p><p><b>Title: </b>Beyond AI Exposure: Which Tasks are Cost-Effective to Automate?</p><p><br></p><p><b>Abstract: </b>The faster AI automation spreads through the economy, the more profound its potential impacts, both positive (improved productivity) and negative (worker displacement). The previous literature on “AI Exposure” cannot predict this pace of automation since it attempts to measure an overall potential for AI to affect an area, not the technical feasibility and economic attractiveness of building such systems. In this article, we present a new type of AI task automation model that is end-to-end, estimating: the level of technical performance needed to do a task, the characteristics of an AI system capable of that performance, and the economic choice of whether to build and deploy such a system. The result is a first estimate of which tasks are technically feasible and economically attractive to automate - and which are not. In this talk, I will present our results using this model for computer vision and show how it differs dramatically from exposure models. I will also discuss our on-going work to extend this analysis to large language models.</p><p><br></p><p>The <b>schedule to reserve</b> your time to meet with Neil Thompson is now open<b>: </b><a href="https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fseminartracker.tepper.cmu.edu%2FPrivateSeminarSchedule%3FSeminarId%3D936&sa=D&ust=1725454020000000&usg=AOvVaw28Yv01Kx3ALh1Vol89bq5-" target="_blank"><b><u>Seminar Scheduler</u></b></a></p><p><br><br></p><p>Please reach out with any questions to the host: Professors Holly Wiberg, <u><a href="mailto:hwiberg@andrew.cmu.edu" target="_blank">hwiberg@andrew.cmu.edu</a></u> and Anna Mayo, <a href="mailto:atmayo@andrew.cmu.edu" target="_blank">atmayo@andrew.cmu.edu</a></p><p><br></p></span></div></td></tr><tr><td style="font-size:0;padding:0;text-align:left;word-break:break-word;padding-bottom:24px"><div style="font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;font-size:14px;line-height:20px;letter-spacing:0.2px;color:#3c4043;text-decoration:none" class="m_-5586689271763452690primary-text" role="presentation"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="padding-bottom:4px"><tbody><tr><td><h2 class="m_-5586689271763452690primary-text" style="font-size:14px;color:#3c4043;text-decoration:none;font-weight:700;margin:0;padding:0">Location</h2></td></tr></tbody></table><span><span class="m_-5586689271763452690primary-text notranslate" style="font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;font-size:14px;line-height:20px;letter-spacing:0.2px;color:#3c4043;text-decoration:none">HBH 1002</span><br><a href="https://www.google.com/maps/search/HBH+1002?hl=en" class="m_-5586689271763452690accent-text m_-5586689271763452690underline-on-hover" style="display:inline-block;color:#1a73e8;text-decoration:none;font-weight:700" target="_blank">View map</a></span></div></td></tr><tr><td style="font-size:0;padding:0;text-align:left;word-break:break-word;padding-bottom:24px"><div style="font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;font-size:14px;line-height:20px;letter-spacing:0.2px;color:#3c4043;text-decoration:none" class="m_-5586689271763452690primary-text" role="presentation"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="padding-bottom:4px"><tbody><tr><td><h2 class="m_-5586689271763452690primary-text" style="font-size:14px;color:#3c4043;text-decoration:none;font-weight:700;margin:0;padding:0">Organizer</h2></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="color:#3c4042"><span class="notranslate"><a class="m_-5586689271763452690primary-text m_-5586689271763452690underline-on-hover" style="display:inline-block;color:#3c4043;text-decoration:none" href="mailto:heinz-events@andrew.cmu.edu" target="_blank">Heinz Events</a></span><span></span></div><div style="color:#707579"><a class="m_-5586689271763452690secondary-text m_-5586689271763452690underline-on-hover" style="display:inline-block;color:#70757a;text-decoration:none" href="mailto:heinz-events@andrew.cmu.edu" target="_blank">heinz-events@andrew.cmu.edu</a></div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="font-size:0;padding:0;text-align:left;word-break:break-word;padding-bottom:24px"><div style="font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;font-size:14px;line-height:20px;letter-spacing:0.2px;color:#3c4043;text-decoration:none" class="m_-5586689271763452690primary-text" role="presentation"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="padding-bottom:4px"><tbody><tr><td><h2 class="m_-5586689271763452690primary-text" style="font-size:14px;color:#3c4043;text-decoration:none;font-weight:700;margin:0;padding:0">Guests</h2></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="padding-bottom:4px;text-align:left;color:#3c4042"></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></span></span></div>_______________________________________________<br>
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