Fireside chat: AI, hip hop and scicom
with Ashley Llorens (Microsoft Research)

Title: Fireside chat: AI, hip hop and scicom with Ashley Llorens

Speaker: Ashley Llorens (Microsoft Research)

Host: Antoine Wojdyla (awojdyla@lbl.gov)

Date and time: Friday, June 2nd, 2023; 1– 2pm

Location:  Online; Live streaming on streaming.lbl.gov

Description: The Global ERG (global.lbl.gov) is delighted to invite you to a fireside chat with Ashley Llorens, an expert in Artificial Intelligence, head of global outreach team at Microsoft Research. He will talk about how his parallel career as a hip-hop artist taught him a thing or two about outreach and how researchers can engage with a larger audience at a time where the public is fascinated by technological advances in artificial intelligence, with tools such as ChatGPT (which were trained on Microsoft servers.)

About Ashley Llorens:
Dr. Ashley Llorens hosts the Microsoft Research Podcast, which discusses the frontiers of Artificial Intelligence, and a subject matter expert for the White House OSTP.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/people/allorens/