Kicking off this year’s White House Correspondents’ Dinner Weekend, the Washington AI Network hosted the inaugural TGAIFriday Lunch — presented by Meta — today at The House at 1229.
The Washington AI Network is a dynamic bipartisan forum that brings together diverse stakeholders from industry, government, civil society, and academia to foster collaboration, knowledge sharing, and responsible development and deployment of AI technologies.
In today’s keynote conversation, Joelle Pineau (Vice President of AI Research at Meta) talked with our founder Tammy Haddad on the power and potential of AI.
Attendees were invited to demo a collection of Meta’s latest AI technologies, trying out Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses featuring multimodal AI as well as the Meta Quest 3, Meta’s new mixed-reality VR headset.
Spotty — an AI-powered personal home assistant robot that can help with everyday chores — wowed lunch guests with its ability to perform various tasks on command. Meta also presented its Segment Anything Model (SAM), a new AI model from Meta AI that can “cut out” any object, in any image, with a single click.
Guests of today’s lunch included: SBA Administrator Isabel Guzman, Booking Holdings CEO Glenn Fogel, OSTP Chief of Staff Asad Ramzanali, SentinelOne Chief Intelligence and Public Policy Officer Chris Krebs, MSNBC’s Symone Sanders-Townsend, CNN’s Pamela Brown, Luxembourg Ambassador to the U.S. Nicole Bintner-Bakshian, NBC News’ Yamiche Alcindor, singer and actress Lynda Carter, French Embassy Press Counselor and Spokesman Pascal Confavreux, British Embassy Senior Political Counselor Senay Bulbul, French Embassy Counselor for AI Alexandre Mirlesse, Meta’s VP for Global Communications and Public Affairs David Ginsberg, Amazon Web Services’ Head of U.S. Congressional and Political Affairs Olivia Igbokwe, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer’s Policy Director Jon Cardinal, Sen. Brian Schatz’s Chief of Staff Reema Dodin, Sen. Mark Warner’s Chief of Staff Elizabeth Falcone, NobleReach Foundation SVP for Marketing and Communications Tina Anthony, Smithsonian Assistant Secretary for Communications and External Affairs Julissa Marenco, Sen. Mitt Romney’s Chief of Staff Liz Johnson, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer’s National Press Secretary Allison Biasotti, OSTP Senior Policy Advisor Olivia Zhu, Commerce Department Senior Advisor Nick Schmit, The Washington Post’s Cat Zakrzewski, SSCI President Kunal Mehra, POLITICO’s Steven Overly, The Washington Post’s Naomi Nix, GlobalWIN Founder Helen Milby, Booking Holdings’ Maryam Mujica, The Washington Post’s Kathy O’Hearn, Blair House Director Shannon Ricchetti, Amy Ricchetti, The Washington Post’s Phil Rucker, EqualAI CEO Miriam Vogel, and Swatchroom co-founder Maggie O’Neill.
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