Oren Etzioni, In Conversation with Oren Etzioni, AI researcher and serial entrepreneur (University of Washington)

When:
January 31, 2025 @ 12:00 pm – 1:15 pm
2025-01-31T12:00:00-05:00
2025-01-31T13:15:00-05:00
Where:
3400 N CHARLES ST
Cost:
Free

Abstract

This is a casual discussion with Oren Etzioni and will touch upon various topics, including the advancement of AI, its effects on society and politics and entrepreneurship in  today’s technological era. There will also be opportunities for the audience to engage and participate in the conversation. The discussion is moderated by Daniel Khashabi.

Bio

Dr. Oren Etzioni is the founder of TrueMedia.org, a nonprofit fighting political deepfakes. He was the Founding Chief Executive Officer at the Allen Institute for AI (AI2), having served as CEO from its inception in 2013 until late 2022. He is Professor Emeritus at the University of Washington where he helped to pioneer meta-search, online comparison shopping, machine reading, and open information extraction.  He has authored several award-winning technical papers, achieving an H-index of 100 (100 technical papers each cited over 100 times).  Finally, he is a technical director of the AI2 Incubator and a Venture Partner at Madrona. He has founded several companies including Farecast (acquired by Microsoft).

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