12th of April 19:00 – 19:30
Speaker:
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Ashley Pilipiszyn – Technical Director at OpenAI
About the talk:
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In this talk Ashley Pilipiszyn, Technical Director at OpenAI, gives a quick overview about the past development of GPT-3 and the fast growing ecosystem of use-cases and GPT-3 powered applications, also touching on GPT-3’s main promise and disruptive potential!
About Ashley:
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Ashley currently leads OpenAI’s Developer Ecosystem and Creative Applications Strategy, working with developers to build AI-powered applications that help solve real-world challenges. She also managed the Output team and helped lead the launches of OpenAI’s advanced research and commercial products including MuseNet, Jukebox, Rubik’s Cube, Multi-agent, Image GPT, GPT-3 API, and DALL-E.
Previously, she was with the U.S. Department of Energy SLAC National Accelerator Lab during her PhD in Engineering at Stanford, where she led the design, development, and deployment of the Grid Resilience & Intelligence Platform (GRIP). GRIP leverages AI to anticipate, absorb, and recover from grid events such as wildfires, ice storms, or cyberattacks. She was selected as a World Economic Forum Global Shaper and served on the Advisory Board of the Partnering to Accelerate Sustainable Energy Innovation project.
By 31, she’d traveled to all 7 continents, 30+ countries, trekked 130+ miles to install 3 solar microgrids that electrified one of the most remote villages in the Himalayas, and is a member of the 2041 ClimateForce Antarctic Expedition with Sir Robert Swan. Ashley was accepted into the Inaugural Cohort of the Edmund Hillary Fellowship, is on the Student Energy Board of Directors, and an angel investor with Village Global.
