Turing Lecture: Building dynamic robots

The finale in the Turing Lecture mini-series exploring the role of AI and data science in our lives post-lockdown.

Speakers:

Marc Raibert -  Founder and Chairman of Boston Dynamics 
Professor Sethu Vijayakumar  - Programme Co-Director for Artificial Intelligence, and Turing Fellow

The ability to clearly, confidently and credibly talk about who you are and what you do is an essential skill in your personal and professional life, whether that is face to face with one person or many, or online using video.

This online pitch masterclass will cover:

This is a mandatory training course for the 2020 cohort.

Please note that this online training will be held over 2 days as follows:

Monday 9th Nov 10.00 - 12.00 hours; 14.00-16.00 hours

Tuesday 10th Nov 10.00 - 12.00 hours; 14.00-16.00 hours

Please note that you will need a desktop, laptop or similar to be able to participate fully in online discussions and group work held in virtual breakout rooms.  Mobile devices can limit the functionality of the interactions so they should only be used where no other option is available.

The 2019 cohort have organised a virtual pub quiz to welcome the new cohort of CDT students, all RAS CDT students are invited!

It will take place on Thursday 17th September at 6pm.  Please refer to your emails for the Discord link.

The prize for the quiz is knowing that your team is better than everyone else!

Amazon Alexa, Apple's Siri or Google's assistant are able to converse with humans using language. This talk will review the underlying technology and discuss their limitations and potentials.

Amazon Alexa, Apple’s Siri or Google’s assistant are able to converse with humans using language. The underlying technology – often referred to as spoken dialogue systems – has experienced a revolution over the past decade, moving from being completely handcrafted to using data-driven machine learning methods.