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Closing out or year and building on the success of the summer AI event, Ontario Tech researchers working on a range of fundamental and applied questions related to AI gathered to share their work and engage in new discussions. Hosted in the Fireside Reading Room, we fueled our minds as well as our stomachs 🎂.
This week, Peter joined the Lancaster House `Addressing technological change, surveillance, monitoring, and AI at the bargaining table’ panel at the Toronto Labour Arbitration and Policy Conference.
In this session, the panelists discussed the impact of artificial intelligence in the work place, current AI legislation, and how the impacts of AI should be addressed through collective bargaining, among other technology focused concerns.
This week, Ainaz and Zahra presented their research at Ontario Tech’s inaugural SGPS Research Poster Showcase. This dynamic event allowed students to gain valuable experience in presenting their research, receive constructive feedback, and engage with peers, faculty, and the wider community. The Showcase served as a platform for students to demonstrate the wide scope of innovative research and academic endeavours conducted within our university.
On the 21st of October, Arsh Chowdhry presented on behalf of our recent MSc graduate Parisa Salmani at the European Conference of Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2024).
Parisa’s work, entitled Transfer Learning Can Introduce Bias was accepted as a full paper in Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications, and presented via a short talk and poster; see photos. Parisa’s research demonstrates, for the first time, that transfer learning can lead to the introduction of new demographic bias, which may discriminate against particular sub-populations, when compared to a model trained from scratch to perform the same task, a huge contribution!
