NYU Tandon School of Engineering Explores the State of Artificial Intelligence with New Seminar Series

The first event will feature Yann LeCun, Facebook's director of AI research and a member of the New York University faculty. LeCun will inaugurate the series on Tuesday, February 20, 2018, from 10 to 11 am in Downtown Brooklyn, at NYU Tandon's Pfizer Auditorium, 5 MetroTech Center. Registration is free and open to all. His address, "Obstacles to Deep Learning and AI," will explore a new frontier: predictive models that capture the "common sense" exhibited by humans and animals, who often learn by observation and occasional action. LeCun's pioneering work in the application of neural networks to computer vision and other AI areas led to products and services deployed across most technology companies.