About this Event
📍 Location: Exact address given in confirmation email
🧠 Lecture: "Is There Anything AI Can’t Do?"
🎤 Speaker: Prof. Dr. Pascal Wallisch, PhD
Join us for a fascinating evening exploring the power and limits of artificial intelligence with Prof. Dr. Pascal Wallisch, PhD. This talk will unpack the transformer and attention architectures that drive today’s leading large language models (LLMs), revealing how they process information and generate human-like text.
You’ll learn about the core paradigm of next-token prediction—how models “guess” what comes next—and how reinforcement learning refines their behavior to make them more helpful, safe, and aligned with human expectations. Along the way, we’ll consider what these systems truly understand, where they still fall short, and what that means for the future of work, creativity, and human intelligence.
Pascal is the most decorated educator at NYU, having received a distinguished teaching award, two Golden Dozen awards, a TeachTech award, and five teaching innovation awards. His engaging style and clarity make even complex concepts accessible and fun.
Get a drink, connect, and learn at Lectures on Tap! 🙌
Agenda
6:30 PM – Doors open: find a seat (open seating!), order food & drinks, and expect a bar line—arriving early is key.
6:55 PM – Host introduction
7:00 PM – Lecture begins
7:45 PM – Audience Q&A
8:00 PM – Have 1:1 time with the speaker, mingle with fellow guests, and order another round
8:30 PM – Wrap up.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Flatiron District, 1, New York, United States
USD 41.32
