CDSS Videos

Watch the Bakar Institute of Digital Materials for the Planet (BIDMaP) and Climate Change AI at the AI & Physical Sciences for Climate Innovation Symposium where leading experts discuss their work on addressing the climate crisis through AI applications, particularly in weather and materials science for sustainability...

Join the Bakar Institute of Digital Materials for the Planet (BIDMaP) and Climate Change AI at the AI & Physical Sciences for Climate Innovation Symposium where leading experts will discuss their work on addressing the climate crisis through AI applications, particularly in weather and materials science for...

Alison Gopnik, Distinguished Professor of Psychology, UC Berkeley Young children’s learning may be an important model for artificial intelligence (AI). Comparing children and artificial agents in the same tasks and environments can help us understand the abilities of existing systems and create new ones. In particular, many...

Anca Dragan, Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, UC Berkeley. Researchers used to define objectives for artificial intelligence (AI) agents by hand, but with progress in optimization and reinforcement learning, it became obvious that it's too difficult to think of everything ahead of time and...

Data Dignity and the Inversion of AI - Jaron Lanier, Prime Unifying Scientist, Microsoft Abstract: In this talk, Jaron Lanier will discuss a piece he published in The New Yorker (“There Is No AI”) about applying data dignity ideas to artificial intelligence (AI). Large-model AI can be...

The Data Science Discovery Program incubates cutting edge data science projects with academic researchers, government agencies, non-profits, and industry partners by connecting them to the world class talent at UC Berkeley. The Discovery Showcase held at the end of each semester allows student researchers to present their...

Special guest speakers Chelle Gentemann and Lika Guhathakurta describe new NASA Headquarters initiatives for open, collaborative and interdisciplinary science—bridging fundamental discovery with social impact. UC Berkeley's Fernando Pérez and Jennifer Chayes join our featured speakers on-stage for a panel discussion about how open source science is transforming...