Surreal Dinner Series - Recursive Self Improvement talk w/ Recursive CTO & Co-founder
Hosted by Surreal + Vanessa Larco - Co-founder at Premise + Mercedes Bent, Cofounder Premise
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What to look forward to
Surreal’s technical AI dinner series will explore how recursive self-improvement (RSI) is changing software development, featuring a fireside chat with Tim Shi, co-founder of Recursive. The evening will pair an art gallery tour and dinner with conversation among technologists and builders.
Inside the event
Making the surreal, real.
Join us for Surreal in San Francisco, a dinner series for AI engineers and researchers, held in art galleries.
Recursive self-improvement is changing how we build software. Models are starting to help design, test, and improve the next generation of models, and that loop is reshaping how engineering and research teams work.
We’ll dig into this topic via a fireside chat with Tim Shi, Co-Founder at Recursive.
Expect an intimate evening of gallery tours, a candid conversation, and dinner with a group of AI engineers and researchers working at the frontier.
Agenda
- 5:15pm Mingling + Art Gallery Tours
- 6:00pm Conversation
- 6:40pm Dinner
- 7:30pm Mingling
About Surreal
Surreal is a monthly dinner series & technical AI community run by Premise.
The series is held at art galleries as we believe that technologists are inspired by creative environments when they invent new technology products, and that the same creativity that inspires artists, inspires technologists.
Learn more about the Surreal community here: surrealbuilders.com
Thank you to our sponsors: SVB, Rippling, Fenwick, & True Search.
Disclosure: By attending this event, you grant permission to be videotaped and have your likeness recorded. Your video footage may be used for promotional purposes, and you can opt-out at any time by emailing hello@premise.vc
Palo Alto, CA
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