<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div class="gmail_default"><div class="gmail_default"><font face="georgia, serif" color="#000000"><font style="vertical-align:inherit"><font style="vertical-align:inherit"><b>When:</b>    </font></font><font style="vertical-align:inherit"><font style="vertical-align:inherit">    Thursday, February 27th at <b style="background-color:rgb(255,255,0)">10AM CT</b><b> </b></font></font></font></div><div><p style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;margin:0px"><font color="#000000"><font style="vertical-align:inherit"><font face="georgia, serif" style="vertical-align:inherit"><b><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,0)"><br></span></b></font></font></font></p><div class="gmail_default"><font face="georgia, serif" color="#000000"><b>Where:       </b>Talk will be given <font style="font-weight:bold"><u>live, in-person</u></font><font style="font-weight:bold"> </font>at</font></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="georgia, serif" color="#000000">                       TTIC, 6045 S. Kenwood Avenue</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font color="#000000" face="georgia, serif">                       5th Floor, Room 530<b> </b></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><b><font face="georgia, serif" color="#000000"><br></font></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="georgia, serif" color="#000000"><b style="letter-spacing:0.2px">Virtually:</b><span style="letter-spacing:0.2px">  via Panopto </span>(<a href="https://uchicago.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=c995b509-ab19-4289-a39a-b28801157495" target="_blank">livestream</a><span style="letter-spacing:0.2px">)</span><br></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="georgia, serif" color="#000000"><br></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="georgia, serif" color="#000000"><font style="vertical-align:inherit"><font style="vertical-align:inherit"><b>Who: </b>         </font></font>Amir Bar, Meta AI (FAIR)</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"></p><div><p style="letter-spacing:0.2px"><font face="georgia, serif" color="#000000"><span style="letter-spacing:normal"><b>Title:</b>        </span><span style="letter-spacing:normal">Towards Real-World Models</span></font></p><div><font face="georgia, serif" color="#000000"><b>Abstract: </b><span style="background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">Current artificial</span><span style="background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"> intelligence systems can synthesize images, solve math problems, and write code. Despite these advances, they still struggle with basic tasks that humans and animals perform effortlessly. One potential idea why humans and animals can perform basic tasks well, is because they have a predictive world model that integrates perception, reasoning, and planning capabilities—can we build such a model in a bottom-up fashion from sensorimotor data and primarily visual observations?</span></font></div><div><span style="background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font face="georgia, serif" color="#000000"><br></font></span></div><p style="background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"></p><p style="background:transparent;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent"><font face="georgia, serif" color="#000000">In this talk, I will propose a path toward building such a world model. I will introduce Visual Prompting, a new paradigm that unifies many computer vision tasks and can readily adapt pretrained models to novel tasks without fine-tuning. Building on this, I will present an extension to planning using generative world models—showing that action-conditioned video models can act as simulators of the environment that support real-world decision-making, with a case study in visual navigation. Finally, I will discuss future directions for scaling up the capabilities of world models and the challenges we face to enable their real-world deployment.</font></span></p><div><font face="georgia, serif" color="#000000"><br></font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif" color="#000000"><b>Short Bio</b>: <span class="gmail_default"></span><span class="gmail_default"></span>Amir Bar is a Postdoctoral Researcher at Meta AI (FAIR), working on self-supervised learning with Yann LeCun. Previously, Amir completed his PhD at Tel Aviv University and was a Visiting PhD student at Berkeley AI Research, advised by Amir Globerson and Trevor Darrell. His work on video models won the Ego4D CVPR 2022 PNR challenge. Amir began his PhD following the acquisition of the startup Zebra Medical Vision where he led the AI team and developed multiple FDA-approved algorithms currently in clinical use worldwide.</font></div><font face="georgia, serif" color="#000000"><br><b>Host: </b><a href="mailto:greg@ttic.edu" target="_blank"><b>Greg Shakhnarovich</b></a></font></div></div></div></div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><b style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#3d85c6">Brandie Jones </font></b><div><div><div><font color="#3d85c6"><b><i>Executive </i></b></font><b style="color:rgb(61,133,198)"><i>Administrative Assistant</i></b></div></div><div><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#3d85c6">Toyota Technological Institute</font></span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#3d85c6">6045 S. Kenwood Avenue</font></span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#3d85c6">Chicago, IL  60637</font></span></div></div><div><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#3d85c6"><a href="http://www.ttic.edu" target="_blank">www.ttic.edu</a> </font></span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#3d85c6"><br></font></span></div></div></div></div>
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