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Next IAU-IAA Astrostats & Astroinfo online seminar: 10 Sep 2024 / 16:00 (UTC)

Alex Szalay (Johns Hopkins U., Baltimore, USA)

AI-ready data in astrophysics

Abstract: Astronomy has been leading the open data movement. This is becoming today even more relevant as the value of data is exponentially increasing. Companies are spending hundreds of millions on training large language models and building computational facilities containing hundreds of thousands of GPUs. At the same time academic institutions are increasingly struggling in identifying areas where they can remain competitive. The talk will discuss thee issues, and will talk about how astronomy (and astronomers) need to become more agile, focus on increasingly more scalable experiments, and make the collected data AI-ready.

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