Location: EY is hosting this event on the 1100 floor of the Madison Centre - 920 5th Ave, Seattle 98104.

Visual Reasoning will be bigger than language reasoning

What does it mean for a machine to truly understand the world—not just through language, but through sight?

Today’s most advanced AI systems can write, summarize, and reason with words. But when it comes to the visual world—understanding space, objects, and relationships—they still fall short in surprisingly fundamental ways.

Dr. Ranjay Krishna is working to close that gap.

Drawing on decades of computer vision research, his work explores how machines might learn to “think visually”—not just to recognize images, but to reason through them. By introducing new approaches like sketching and integrating visual reasoning directly into language models, his research opens up powerful new possibilities for how AI can understand and interact with the world.

From more capable multimodal systems to robots that can reason in space, this shift points toward a new generation of AI—one that engages more fully with the physical world, and expands what artificial intelligence can do next.

Agenda -

11:30 am to 12 pm - lunch

12 pm to 12:40 pm - presentation

12:40 pm to 1 pm - audience Q&A