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Pieter Abbeel is a highly-sought keynote speaker and expert covering such topics as artificial intelligence, automation, innovation, technology, and robotics. He is a best-selling author, consultant, media pundit, and thought-leader who has spoken at many conferences around the world where he gives leaders the skills they need to deal with fast, big changes in society, the workplace, and education.
Pieter Abbeel is hired to speak at events and conferences where he can give expertise on important global business affairs. He is Director of the Berkeley Robot Learning Lab and Co-Director of the Berkeley Artificial Intelligence (BAIR) Lab. Abbeel’s research strives to build ever more intelligent systems, which has his lab push the frontiers of deep reinforcement learning, deep imitation learning, deep unsupervised learning, transfer learning, meta-learning, and learning to learn, as well as study the influence of AI on society. His lab also investigates how AI could advance other science and engineering disciplines. Abbeel’s Intro to AI class has been taken by over 100K students through edX, and his Deep RL and Deep Unsupervised Learning materials are standard references for AI researchers.
Abbeel has founded three companies: Gradescope (AI to help teachers with grading homework and exams), Covariant (AI for robotic automation of warehouses and factories), and Berkeley Open Arms (low-cost, highly capable 7-dof robot arms), advises many AI and robotics start-ups, and is a frequently sought after speaker worldwide for C-suite sessions on AI future and strategy. Abbeel has received many awards and honors, including the PECASE, NSF-CAREER, ONR-YIP, Darpa-YFA, TR35. His work is frequently featured in the press, including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, BBC, Rolling Stone, Wired, and Tech Review.
Pieter Abbeel is a professor of electrical engineering and computer science,[1] Director of the Berkeley Robot Learning Lab, and co-director of the Berkeley AI Research (BAIR) Lab at the University of California, Berkeley. He is also the co-founder of covariant.ai,a venture-funded start-up that aims to teach robots new, complex skills, and co-founder of Gradescope, an online grading system that has been implemented in over 500 universities nationwide. He is best known for his cutting-edge research in robotics and machine learning, particularly in deep reinforcement learning.
Since the invention of the computer, the tech world has been dreaming of advances in Artificial Intelligence (AI). Pieter Abbeel, a top Belgian researcher conducting his work in California, is turning this holy grail into a reality: a machine which mimics the intellectual capacity of a human being may become reality in the next few decades.
Pieter Abbeel leads a project named BRET (Berkeley Robot for the Elimination of Tedious Tasks), which helps robots think intelligently. In the past few years, Abbeel and his PhD students were successful in training the robots to fold laundry, among other tasks. While that may seem like a baby step to many, in the AI world, this advancement is a huge jump.
Pieter’s main challenge is to enable robots to react in similar ways humans would in situations they have never encountered before.
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