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DESCRIPTION:Title: Scalable Autonomy in the Era of Foundation Models”\n\nAb
 stract: Autonomous agents have long been studied in specific applications 
 like robotics and autonomous vehicles\, where progress often navigated tra
 de-offs between performance\, data efficiency\, and generalization. The re
 cent emergence of foundation models\, however\, is dissolving these tradit
 ional barriers\, enabling the development of the first truly generalist ag
 ents. In this talk\, we will discuss the core methods for building the gen
 eralist agents\, particularly focusing on learning from vast\, yet imperfe
 ct real-world data. We explore the progression of training paradigms\, sta
 rting from large-scale imitation learning and advancing to reinforcement l
 earning aligned with a variety of human data\, to scaling reinforcement le
 arning to large capacity transformer architectures with suboptimal data. N
 ext\, we examine inference-time learning\, where agents can adapt to new t
 asks and environments on-the-fly\, without retraining. This adaption capac
 ity\, along with self-correction methods are a key step toward self-improv
 ing and truly autonomous systems. We will contextualize the societal impac
 t of these advancements using a 'Levels of AGI' framework\, drawing an ana
 logy to the levels of autonomy in self-driving cars. Finally\, we will out
 line the critical open research problems for the next generation of agenti
 c AI. This includes scalable solutions for online planning and continual l
 earning\, the development of robust world models\, and ensuring value alig
 nment in open-ended sequential decision-making. We will discuss how new fr
 ontiers in bioengineering\, computational social sciences\, and robotics a
 re not only powerful applications with major societal impact\, but also es
 sential drivers for the next generation of foundational agentic systems.\n
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DTSTART:20250904T140000Z
DTEND:20250904T151500Z
LOCATION:Room 1104\, Burnside Hall\, CA\, QC\, Montreal\, H3A 0B9\, 805 rue
  Sherbrooke Ouest
SUMMARY: Aleksandra Faust  (Genesis Therapeutics\, Burlingame\, CA)
URL:https://www.mcgill.ca/mathstat/channels/event/aleksandra-faust-genesis-
 therapeutics-burlingame-ca-366976
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