Karthik Duraisamy is a professor at the University of Michigan. He is co-leading the newly created Institute of Agentic Computing at the University of Michigan, the first of its kind. This is the first conversation Karthik’s had going deep on the institute.

Karthik's research spans a broad spectrum of Computational Science & Engineering, including new modeling approaches for complex physical systems, numerical methods, algorithms and uncertainty quantification.

We talk about the new institute, using AI for science and research, how universities work, how AI is impacting students and education, and his advice for young people.

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Timestamps:

(0:25) University of Michigan’s new Institute for Agentic Computing

(4:27) Creating the OpenClaw Foundation and Lobster Compute Company

(8:19) How Universities actually work

(12:33) ClawCon in Ann Arbor

(15:24) Two scientific discoveries made with ScienceClaw

(20:06) How AI changes scientific discovery

(25:42) Supporting AI and OpenClaw development

(29:55) Why universities function like VC funds

(34:29) How Universities get money from the government

(40:55) Why some academics believe AI is a fad

(46:17) Biggest bottlenecks in AI today

(49:26) How AI will change the world

(53:10) The Code Red Karthik gave his students

(59:19) Separating learning and doing

(1:03:10) Ways COVID and AI impacted college students

(1:14:53) How the role of universities is changing

(1:23:21) Why college classes suffered from grade inflation

(1:26:05) How AI is actually impacting the job market

(1:32:49) Karthik’s advice for students

(1:39:16) Winning two NCAA basketball national championships

(1:43:04) Almost dying in the Grand Teton National Park

Referenced

More on Karthik: https://aero.engin.umich.edu/people/duraisamy-karthik/

Institute for Agentic Computing: https://record.umich.edu/articles/u-m-launches-institute-for-agentic-computing/

ClawCon Announcement:

OpenClaw: https://openclaw.ai/

ScienceClaw: http://scienceclaw.science/

MIT OpenCourseWare: https://ocw.mit.edu/

ASU iPhone video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqfk7-3iN-U

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Inside Michigan’s New Institute for Agentic Computing, How AI Has Changed Science and Universities | Karthik Duraisamy at the University of Michigan

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