Name: #25 AI Series: DeepMind - A. Edwards
Start: 2025-11-18T18:45:00+01:00
End: 2025-11-18T20:45:00+01:00
Location: C130, Institut für Chemie, Technische Universität Berlin

We are excited to feature **Ashley Edwards**, who is currently a Senior Research Scientist at **Google DeepMind** and will discuss "**Generative World Models**", lasting approximately 45 minutes. After the talk, seize the opportunity to connect with fellow AI enthusiasts to share ideas and questions while enjoying free drinks and pizza. **Door close by 7.15pm, so please come early! Also, "attend"ing (RSVP) here on Meetup is strictly necessary to be guaranteed entry.**
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**Who is this event for?**
This event is open to everyone interested in state-of-the-art AI research. We especially design it for students, PhD candidates, academic researchers, and industry professionals with a research focus in machine learning.

**Abstract**: Training models on large-scale data has given us powerful generative capabilities for text, images, and video. However, this success has not yet extended to training generalist embodied agents. This talk tackles this gap by focusing on a potential solution to this problem: scalable world models. We'll trace the idea of planning in predictive models, from its origins to modern efforts on building world models directly from pixels. I'll discuss the primary challenge of scaling these models and present our work, Genie, which enables us to learn world models without explicit action labels at scale, demonstrating a new path forward for training the generalist agents of the future.

**Bio**: [Ashley](https://ashedwards.github.io/) is a Senior Research Scientist at Google DeepMind, where she works on reinforcement learning and foundational world models. She received her PhD in Computer Science from Georgia Tech in 2019, where she developed models for inferring latent actions, rewards, and policies from videos. Previously, she was a Research Scientist at Uber AI Labs and an intern at Google Brain. She holds a BSc in Computer Science from the University of Georgia.

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