Abstract:

In his talk, Dr Piotr Mirowski explores human-machine collaboration and participatory AI, drawing on his work at Google DeepMind on sustainability and climate, as well as his research on AI-supported co-creation and computational creativity. Dr Piotr Mirowski is a Senior Staff Research Scientist at Google DeepMind and a Visiting Researcher at Goldsmiths, University of London. Piotr’s research on artificial intelligence covers the subjects of reinforcement learning, navigation, weather and climate forecasting, as well as a socio-technical systems approach to human-machine collaboration and to computational creativity. He is the author of over 80 papers and patents in applications of AI to the real world. Piotr studied computer science in France at ENSEEIHT Toulouse and obtained his PhD in computer science in 2011 at New York University, with a thesis supervised by Prof. Yann LeCun (Outstanding Dissertation Award, 2011). A trained actor himself, Piotr founded and directs Improbotics, a theatre company where human actors and robots improvise live comedy performances and investigate the use of AI for artistic human and machine-based co-creation.

Biography:

Dr Mirowski’s research spans reinforcement learning, navigation, weather and climate forecasting, and socio-technical systems for human-machine collaboration. He is the author of over 80 papers and patents applying AI to real-world challenges. A trained actor, he also founded and directs Improbotics, a theatre company where humans and AI-powered robots co-create live improvised performances.

He holds a PhD in Computer Science from New York University, where he studied under Prof. Yann LeCun. More about his work: piotrmirowski.com