DIKU Alumnedag 2023: AI, ML and ChatGPT – risks and potential

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DIKU Alumneforening inviterer sammen med DIKU Business Club til den årlige alumnedag. Årets tema bliver 'AI, ML and ChatGPT – risks and potential'.

Inden middagen, som er gratis for alle, der tilmelder sig, runder vi programmet af med nogle revyklassikere fra DIKU-revyen, der kan fejre 50 års jubilæum i 2023.

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Program: 

17:00-17:10
Welcome by the Head of Department:
What's happening at DIKU?

Jakob GrueJakob Grue Simonsen, Department chair and Professor at DIKU
17:10-17:30
ChatGPT in Education
Professor Morten Misfeldt and Associate Professor Daniel Spikol will present interesting insights about ChatGPT and the entry of 'generative AI' into the education sector – what are the opportunities and what are the pitfalls?

Morten MisfeldtMorten Misfeldt, Professor at KU's Center for Digital Education, affiliated to DIKU as well as the Department of Science Education

Daniel SpikolDaniel Spikol, Associate Professor of Computational Thinking at KU's Center for Digital Education, affiliated to DIKU as well as and the Department of Science Education
17:30-17:50
What can we do about AI? 

Generative artificial intelligence supercharges existing concerns about the role of digital technologies in society, and forces us to engage with pressing questions about ethics, responsibility and values. This talk highlights the challenges and choices that we face as universities and societies in times of artifical intelligence.

Mikkel FlyverbomMikkel Flyverbom, Professor, tech columnist & academic program director of BSc in Digital Management at Copenhagen Business School
Short break
18:00-18:15

The End of Words? Language Modelling from Pixels

Language models are defined over a finite set of inputs, which creates a bottleneck if we attempt to scale the number of supported languages. Tackling this bottleneck usually results in a trade-off between what can be represented in the embedding matrix and computational issues in the output layer. I will present the Pixel-based Encoder of Language, which does not suffer from this issue, making it possible to directly support any language that can be typeset by a computer.

 Desmond ElliotDesmond Eliott, Tenure-track Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science, Natural Language Processing
18:15-18:30
AI, ML and Outliers - A Case Study of Asylum Case Data in Denmark
Refugees worldwide now face an evolving landscape of data-driven decision-making as they seek asylum. Countries like the US, Canada, and Australia are increasingly turning to machine learning algorithms to predict asylum outcomes, aiming to mitigate potential biases among human judges and achieve greater decision consistency. However, these algorithmic approaches often hinge on notions of "norms" and rely on assumptions of representativeness, which can profoundly affect the lives of vulnerable individuals. This presentation takes a closer look at the intricate concept of outliers within this context and delves into how machine learning algorithms, in conjunction with human judgment, construct the ideas of "normal" and "outlier."
Through illustrative examples of asylum case outliers, we emphasize that amidst the fervor of big data, the data points representing real people can be easily overlooked when they don't align with the algorithmically established norm. Our objective is to illuminate the complexity of asylum decision-making, shedding light on potential blind spots that may arise when employing AI in high-stakes areas like this one.

 Kristin Kaltenhäuser
Kristin Kalten-häuser,
PhD Student, Computer Science,  Software, Data, People and Society
18:30-18:45
Panel discussion and Q&A
18:45-19:00
DIKU revue 50th anniversary sketch
The DIKU Revue will entertain you with some revue classics as a warm-up for their upcoming 50th anniversary, which will be celebrated in October. Enjoy Torben and Torben performing "A workplace in Denmark"
19:00 -  Dinner