AI-powered software

Unveil the trends, challenges, and prospects in the future of AI-assisted programming.

This half-day seminar will include four keynote talks, a panel discussion and celebration drinks (invitation only). Attendees can benefit from the development details of state-of-the-art LLMs for coding and benchmarking, as well as visions from experts in sustainable software and diverse and inclusiveness in software development.

Speakers

Daniel J. Mankowitz works on building and/or improving important real-world applications and products using Reinforcement Learning and Large Language Models (LLMs). He has contributed to AlphaCode, AlphaDev, Bard and Gemini at Google Deepmind.

Baptiste Roziere is a research scientist at Meta AI in Paris working in the code generation team. He works on large language models, with a special interest in applications to code. Baptiste contributed to Llama and started Code Llama.

Don Syme is a Principal Researcher at GitHub Next specialising in AI-driven collaborative programming systems. He is a co-creator of Copilot Workspace and the designer of the F# language. In 2015, he was honored with a Silver Medal from the Royal Academy of Engineering.

John Yang is an incoming PhD student at Stanford University. He is currently a research assistant at Princeton University advised by Professor Karthik Narasimhan. He works on Benchmarks for LLMs, Software Engineering, and Interactive Code Generation. He is the creator of SWE-bench and SWE-agent.

The panelists will be confirmed soon.

Although many of the King's Festival of Artificial Intelligence events are suitable for a wide audience, including the general public, participants will get the most out of this if they have a high level of knowledge or interest in the area.

This event is in-person only. Please register on Eventbrite.

This event is part of the King's Festival of Artificial Intelligence, running from Tuesday 21 to Saturday 25 May 2024 , with support from the China-Britain Artificial Intelligence Association. This event has been funded by the NMES Enterprise & Engagement Partnerships Fund.

Festival event times may be subject to change. Any changes will be communicated to registrants via Eventbrite emails.

Please note, King's events are free, which means we routinely overbook to allow for no-shows and avoid empty seats. Admission is on a first come, first served basis, so please arrive in good time to avoid disappointment. We will not be able to admit those without tickets or latecomers.