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AI technology like OpenAI's ChatGPT, Google's Gemini, Anthropic's Claude, Midjourney & many others will play an increasingly large role in our day-to-day lives. To this end, New York AI Users will host our monthly tech talks & social gathering at Vellum AI's high rise office in downtown Manhattan. Vellum is an AI startup that develops agents to automate your boring ops tasks. It is also sponsored by Solace, an Agentic AI company powered by real-time data, & who is also providing free drinks & food for the event. The space & accommodations are perfect for our talks & the social time that follows.
From the creators & organizers of New York Tech & Beer, New York AI Users organizes high-quality AI events that both educate & connect AI enthusiasts in the New York area who use or want to use AI to meet their creative, entrepreneurial, & technical aspirations. No technical background is required, only an interest in learning about these tools of the future. Founders, engineers, & creatives are all welcome!
For our March meeting, we will gather at Vellum & we will host talks on AI followed social time with the speakers & attendees for the remainder of the evening, with free drinks & food throughout.
The Talks:
For our first talk, we will hear from Leah Robert. Why Agentic AI Needs to be Event Driven. "Many organizations are creating AI assistants to help reduce manual tasks & provide an easy way to talk with their data. As more & more agents are created in various environments, it becomes an integration & scaling issue to enable the agents to talk to each other. An event-driven architecture can provide the connectivity, scalability, & resiliency for an enterprise-grade deployment." Leah Robert is a Principal Sales Engineer at Solace, with a strong passion for technology & customer success. She brings deep expertise in software design & enterprise integration, supported by a technical background & hands-on experience working closely with customers to solve complex challenges. Leah holds a degree in Software Design from Queen's University, where she was actively involved in leadership roles within the Computing Students' Association.
Our second talk will be by Lee Gaul, Robotics in AI. "The humanoid form factor is not the answer to the near-term challenges of embodied AI, & the gap between demo & reality is wider than it appears. From the excellent Robot Olympics, to over hyped viral robot videos, most examples tend to collapse under scrutiny, relying on teleoperation, sim-to-real shortcuts, & carefully staged conditions rather than genuine physical intelligence. The deeper story is about what embodiment reveals: the hard problems of affordance reasoning, grounded perception, & real-time physical inference are ones that large language models were never built to solve. The path to true agents, ones that act in the physical world, will require different architectures & more honest benchmarks than what the field is celebrating today." Lee Gaul is an accomplished AI advisor & speaker with a deep fascination for Large Language Models (LLMs), AI-powered chatbots, alignment, & education. With a background in philosophy from the University of Windsor & over a decade of experience in the tech industry, Lee brings a unique perspective to the rapidly evolving world of AI.
We're excited to see you soon!
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