# Talk summaries


These are short narrated summaries of recent lectures and talks on AI by Dominik Lukeš. Each video runs four to eight minutes and follows one lecture from start to finish, for people who missed it or want the argument without the hour. Where the slides are published, each summary links to the full slides.

The summaries are AI-assisted. Agents wrote each script from the recording and the slides, drew the pictures and rendered the video, and the narrator is a synthetic voice. Dominik reviewed them, but they are summaries, not recordings of him. The site is also an example of what can be made from a recorded lecture.

## Mapping the Landscape

Mapping the Landscape is a series of four lectures Dominik gave at the University of Oxford in autumn 2026, on 20 October, 27 October, 3 November and 10 November. They cover AI applications and industry developments, AI and research, large language models, and AI agents. He closed the series with his definition of an agent: a model using tools in a loop to achieve complex tasks that require multiple steps.


- [Mapping the Landscape of AI Agents](/talks/2026-11-10/)
- [Mapping the Landscape of Large Language Models](/talks/2026-11-03/)
- [AI as Tool User: Desktop agents for more productive study and research](/talks/2026-10-30/)
- [Mapping the Landscape of AI and Research](/talks/2026-10-27/)
- [AI as Tool User: Coding agents for more productive study and research](/talks/2026-10-26/)
- [Mapping the Landscape of AI Applications and Industry Developments](/talks/2026-10-20/)
- [AI agents for research workflows](/talks/2026-10-12/)
- [Developments in AI capabilities and industry trends](/talks/2026-09-30/)
- [The State of AI in September 2026](/talks/2026-09-24/)
- [Intern to Toolmaker: Five Roles AI can Play in Productive Study](/talks/2026-09-11/)
- [Strategies & tools for productive reading and writing](/talks/2026-09-10/)

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