Professor | AI Researcher
Rochester, NY
Joined October 2010
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I keep seeing “AI doomer” takes claiming today’s trajectory leads to the Terminator. It doesn’t. Much of the fear comes from abusing the term AGI. I explain why Path 1 ≠ Path 2, and why LLMs won’t “wake up” in this essay: syntheticminds.substack.com/…
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🎉 Announcing the winners of the #CoLLAs2025 Early-Career Spotlight Program!
These rising stars are pushing the boundaries of lifelong & continual learning, adaptation, and embodied AI.
👇 A thread introducing their work & talks.
#AI #MachineLearning #ContinualLearning #LifelongLearning
UR released this Q&A with me, where I discuss my thoughts on the current state of AI, progress towards AGI, and why LLMs won't suffice for AGI: rochester.edu/newscenter/art…
#ai #agi
Following my last essay about how AI will cause enormous reductions in college enrollments, I wrote a follow-up about what they can do to prepare: chriskanan.com/how-universit…
#ai #college #university
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On @UofR Week: Human intelligence and artificial intelligence learn differently, but can that change?
Chris Kanan, associate professor of computer science at the Hajim School of Engineering and Computer Science, looks at the possibilities.
bit.ly/CKananAM
I was featured on the Academic Minute, which airs on over 70 radio stations around the US and Canada. In the segment, I introduce continual learning for the non-AI audience: academicminute.org/2025/02/c…
#ai #academicminute #continuallearning
I've grown quite concerned about the future of academia and AI's impact on enrollments, as I explain in this essay: chriskanan.com/ai-the-existe…
#ai #HigherEd
A proposed AI bill would, based on my read (and ChatGPT's), make it illegal in the USA to download AI code or weights created by Chinese companies, universities, etc. This is catastrophically shortsighted.
Given that roughly half of the academic AI papers published in our top-tier conferences are produced by Chinese universities, this would catastrophically impair AI research in the USA if researchers cannot download code or weights if they were developed by Chinese institutions.
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Proposed Bill's Text: buff.ly/40Vyd9J
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📢 Exciting News! The Fourth Conference on Lifelong Learning Agents (CoLLAs 2025) will be held at the University of Pennsylvania (@Penn) in Philadelphia, USA 🇺🇸
🗓️ Important Dates:
Abstract Deadline: Feb 21, 2025
Submission Deadline: Feb 26, 2025
Conference Dates: Aug 11 - Aug 14, 2025
We invite submissions that present new theories, methodologies, applications, or insights into algorithms and benchmarks designed for non-i.i.d. and non-stationary settings. Accepted papers will be published in the Proceedings of Machine Learning Research (PMLR). 📚
Full CFP: lifelong-ml.cc/Conferences/2…
#CoLLAs2025 #AI #MachineLearning #ContinualLearning #LifelongLearning #ResearchConference #CallForPapers #NonStationaryLearning
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Our Continual Causality Bridge is going into its 3rd edition at AAAI-25 @RealAAAI ! 🎉
Join us for a spectacular 2 days of continual learning & causality by submitting your original 4 page work (for proceedings or non-archival tracks) until Nov 25 AOE!
continualcausality.org/cfp/
After years of effort, we have published Virchow, the first million whole slide image (WSI) foundation model for histopathology, in Nature Medicine! It excels at detecting rare cancers, and we are fervently building new models on top of its incredibly diagnostic and robust embeddings.
I'm super proud of the team, and it was a pleasure collaborating with the folks at Microsoft Research.
nature.com/articles/s41591-0…
My university made this lovely video about my work: youtube.com/watch?v=jwDCjzsz…
We won a new $2M NSF award to develop methods that are more sample efficient for deep learning on temporal prediction and control problems! My lab is collaborating with the labs of Dhireesha Kudithipudi, Itamar Lerner, and Garret Rose for this exciting project.
rochester.edu/newscenter/hum…
I took part in a discussion hosted by the Rochester Beacon on the benefits/risks from recent AI advances. It was a fun conversation:
rochesterbeacon.com/2023/05/…
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#RIT Associate Professor @chriskanan received a @NSF CAREER Award to improve artificial intelligence systems by mimicking the processes for memory formation and consolidation that happen in the human brain during sleep #RITNews @RITscience @RITimagingsci rit.edu/news/christopher-kan…
My lab received a phase 2 award from DARPA/SRI where we will be integrating systems we made during phase 1 into SRI's Starcraft 2 AI system. We did a lot of great work during phase 1, which ran from 2018 until the end of 2020. @TylerLHayes has done a tremendous job on the project
Watch out Zerg, @RITimagingsci Assistant Professor @chriskanan earned DARPA funding to develop artificial intelligence systems capable of playing #starcraft2 #RITNews @RITscience rit.edu/news/rit-researchers…
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We're excited to announce that we've secured financing from @KKR_Co for a total Series C funding round of over $125 million! We are grateful for the support as we expand our geographic footprint. Learn more here: businesswire.com/news/home/2…
$KKR is pleased to announce an investment in @Paige_AI, a global leader in AI-based diagnostic software: media.kkr.com/news-details/?…
Christopher Kanan retweeted
We're excited to announce a #SeriesC funding round of $100 million to accelerate development of AI-based clinical applications, biomarkers and diagnostics. Learn more about our growth: businesswire.com/news/home/2… #computationalpathology #digitaldiagnostics
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Check out our new work to be presented at @bmvc2020 We present the most efficient ways to do streaming object detection here. Code will be released soon.
Arxiv: arxiv.org/abs/2008.06439
Video: youtube.com/watch?v=DHzpb4oi…
Thanks to my co-authors: @chriskanan @TylerLHayes
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Check out our #ECCV2020 paper on REMIND, a brain-inspired approach to online learning!
@kushalkafle @ShresthaRobik @manoja328 @chriskanan
Live Q&A @eccvconf: Thurs. Aug. 27 9am & 7pm ET
Paper: arxiv.org/abs/1910.02509
Video: youtu.be/rg55zzj5_PM
Code: github.com/tyler-hayes/REMIN…