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[Sally Galloway <Sally.Galloway@ed.ac.uk>]

Dear All,

 

You are invited to attend a Distinguished Lecture, hosted by the School of Informatics’ UKRI Centre for Doctoral Training in Natural Language Processing, which will be delivered by Dr Raia Hadsell, Google DeepMind on Friday, 5^th December 3-4pm in G07, Informatics Forum.

 

If you would like to attend, please register via the link below by end of play Wednesday, 26^th November.

 

https://ukriCDTinNLPDistinguisedLecture.eventbrite.co.uk

 

The Lecture will be followed by a Reception held in the Informatics’ atrium.

 

(NB: Please do not forward link externally as the event is only open to students/staff - many thanks.)

 

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Speaker: Dr Raia Hadsell

 

Title:    Beyond Chatbots: Modeling the Unknown

 

Date:    Friday 5^th December 2025

 

Time:  15:00 – 16:00 – Lecture, incl. Q&A

16:00 – 17:00 - Reception     

 

Venue: Informatics Forum: G07 & Atrium 

 

 

Abstract:

Large language models (LLMs) have introduced the world to some of the possibilities of artificial intelligence (AI). But similar types of models powering today’s chatbots, also have a profound ability to model many complex systems beyond language. Raia Hadsell, VP of Research at Google DeepMind, will explore how AI is helping to understand the human body, global weather and even Earth itself.

 

Bio:

Raia joined Google DeepMind in 2014 to advance its mission to build AGI safely for the benefit of humanity. After a decade of contributions in continual learning, reinforcement learning, and robotics, she now serves as VP of Research, overseeing foundational and exploratory research at Google DeepMind. Raia leads numerous teams exploring new AI innovations and models for critical challenges, such as weather and climate modeling. As a respected change leader in the broader AI community, Raia was also a founder and first Editor-in-Chief of a new open journal, Transactions on Machine learning Research (TMLR).

 

 

Kind regards,

Sally

Sally Galloway (she/her pronouns)

UKRI CDT in Natural Language Processing – Coordinator

 

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