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Location: Seminar Room, Wilf Hall, 139 MacDougal St. 5th Floor New York, NY 10012

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Gašper Beguš leads efforts to develop techniques that help us better understand the inner workings of AI. In the Berkeley Biological and Artificial Language Lab he develops interpretable machine-learning models, including an “artificial baby” that learns speech from raw audio the way infants do. 

As Linguistics Lead of Project CETI, he applies similar tools to the click sequences of sperm whales and recently showed that whales produce sound patterns analogous to human vowels.  

Beguš works with industry through InterpretAI to make neural networks more transparent, and he serves as College Principal of Bowles Hall, leading UC Berkeley’s oldest residential college. 

His research has been covered by The Economist, National Geographic, The New York Times, Financial Times, The Atlantic, WIRED, Quanta, Harvard Magazine, Noema Magazine, and others.

Beguš regularly appears as an invited speaker in diverse venues such as NYU Stern School of Business, Centre Pompidou, the National Science Foundation, and the Santa Fe Institute. 

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Location: Faculty Lounge, Vanderbilt Hall, 40 Washington Sq. South
New York, NY 10012

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Christine Webb is an Assistant Professor in New York University's Department of Environmental Studies, where she is part of the Animal Studies program. She is a broadly trained primatologist with expertise in social behavior, culture, cognition, and emotion. Her research also explores how contemporary norms and institutions shape scientific knowledge of other animals and the environment, with a critical emphasis on human exceptionalism.