Distinguished Lecture - hosted by UKRI CDT in Natural Language Processing

You are warmly invited to attend a Distinguished Lecture by Dr Raia Hadsell, Google DeepMind, hosted by the School of Informatics’ UKRI CDT in Natural Language Processing, on 5th December 2025.

The lecture, in G07 from 3-4pm, will be followed by a reception until 5pm in the Atrium.

Note: the event is only open to students & staff of the University of Edinburgh.

"Beyond chatbots: Modeling the unknown":

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).

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