The UBC Technical Career Fair has a new date! Join us Feb. 1 in the AMS Nest 10 - 4. Come out and network with leading tech companies. No need to register - just bring your UBC student card and a smile! Details: ubccsss.org/tcf/ @UBCScience CAIDA_UBC UBC Media Relations @ubcCSSS

Our Dr. Vered Shwartz weighs in on potential problems with using AI models like ChatGPT in Canada’s legal system CAIDA_UBC University of British Columbia Vector Institute

🚨 NEW EVENT SOON 🚨 Join us to learn more about 🤖#socialrobots in 🩺 #health! 🗓️ Wed, Feb 28, 2024 ⏰ 12pm - 1pm PST 🖥️ Online via Zoom Register here: tinyurl.com/yckcdnw5

In an article published by The Conversation Canada, Dr. Vered Shwartz explains her research with grad student Mehar Bhatia on enhancing Large Language Models with culturally diverse knowledge. ow.ly/ay8850QAKrF Vered Shwartz CAIDA_UBC @UBCScience Vector Institute UBC Media Relations

We are excited to host Valentina Pyatkin from MOSAIC for a talk titled "Underspecified Language in Context". Join us on Wednesday Feb 28 at 3 pm at ICICS X836! UBC Language Sciences Institute CAIDA_UBC

It's a busy week of CAIDA events! Have you checked out our upcoming schedule? #AI caida.ubc.ca/event/aaai-202…

Register to attend a UBC CS public lecture: "Regulation in the Age of Cloud Computing & Generative AI," featuring three panelists, including our own Vered Shwartz April 9 UBC Robson Square REGISTER: ow.ly/5zUs50QL4AU #generativeAI @UBCScience Thomas Pasquier CAIDA_UBC

📢 We invite BC's families and care providers! Learn more about: 👉 a novel #AI tool for #cardiac care 👉 its potential and considerations and inform policymakers of how YOU want it implemented in your #care. Register today! tinyurl.com/ycx45jtw

2 of our department's experts, Jeff Clune and gail_murphy recently hosted an informative online presentation about the pitfalls and plusses of using #GenerativeAI in research. Video: ow.ly/R0F850QQLkB #AI #ChatGPT @UBCScience CAIDA_UBC Vector Institute OpenAI

A hearty congratulations to our own Joanna McGrenere for winning a UBC Killam Research Prize in Science! 🏆 prizes.research.ubc.ca/news-announcem… Joanna McGrenere

We are excited to host Maria Antoniak from Ai2 for a talk titled "Computational Approaches to Narratives". Join us on Wednesday Mar 27 at 3 pm at ICICS X836! UBC Language Sciences Institute CAIDA_UBC

"Reining in the many harms of the AI Trojan horse is the urgent task facing us," said our own Alan Mackworth in this UBC article. UBC Science CAIDA_UBC

Our own Dr. Michael Friedlander has been named a 2024 SIAM Fellow! Congratulations to him for this prestigious award! 👏👏🏆 ow.ly/Zbsk50RaZmU @UBCScience CAIDA_UBC @UBCmath

We are excited to host Faeze Brahman from MOSAIC and @uw for a talk titled "Creativity, Constrained Reasoning, and Problem-Solving". Join us on Monday Apr 29 at 11 am at ICICS 146! UBC Language Sciences Institute CAIDA_UBC

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Join us June 26th for an information session about UBC's Micro-certificate in Innovation Leadership. Learn how this program equips you with legal, strategic & practical skills to bridge the gap between scientific breakthroughs & market success: bit.ly/4c6xtle

Congrats to Dr. Dongwook Yoon and fellow researchers for winning a High Impact Award from ETHE Journal for their paper exploring the role of education in #AI. Read: ow.ly/5Vx250T2ixv #AIinEducation #EdTechResearch CAIDA_UBC Designing for People Dongwook Yoon University of British ColumbiaScience UBC Media Relations @UBC

We can't wait for Peter West to join us in 2025! #AIMSI has hired 6 new assistant professors in total across Computer Science, Statistics, and Mathematics - all of whom are exceptional #AI researchers. Check out the whole AIM-SI team! caida.ubc.ca/aim-si

Join UBC Centre for Computational Social Science and CAIDA_UBC on Sept 19, 11 am at UBC's Walter C. Koerner Library for "Connecting Minds: Exploring AI & Social Sciences." Lightning talks + networking lunch! Don't miss out—register now! #AI #SocialSciences #UBC #Research ubc.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_7R…

Our own Dr. Margo Seltzer is a newly elected Fellow to the Royal Society of Canada. Congratulations Dr. Seltzer! Read article: ow.ly/Gwfz50TeCRP #RoyalSocietyOfCanada #UBC #ComputerScience #WomenInSTEM Systopia Lab University of British Columbia Margo Seltzer UBC Media Relations