The Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory gathered more than 200 artificial intelligence experts and domain scientists for an AI expo exploring cutting edge artificial intelligence that’s making a difference for scientific research institutions around the world.
The lab’s AI Initiative, a program dedicated to advancing AI throughout the laboratory’s research portfolio, hosted the event for ORNL researchers and staff and featured keynote speeches, poster presentations and a mini hackathon session aimed at giving attendees hands-on experience with this evolving technology. ORNL hosted its first such event in 2019.
ORNL’s Director of Artificial Intelligence Programs Prasanna Balaprakash stressed the significance of having a large crowd of ORNL staff from diverse research backgrounds.
“This demonstrated the ORNL research community’s commitment to leveraging AI’s transformative capabilities to advance science, engineering and national security,” said Balaprakash.
Attendees had an opportunity to work with some of the latest AI models — like OpenAI’s o1 and Anthropic’s Claude 3.5 Sonnet models — through the mini hackathon session. The event was also an opportunity to showcase ORNL’s AI capabilities, highlight AI-based science and engineering research and open the door to opportunities for collaboration between domain experts and AI experts across the lab.
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