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I just finished this webinar with SAICE on using AI in industry. We looked at AI playing a key role with humans versus taking away jobs from humans, but then the new technology of the robot taxing was being tested, and our speaker Brian Downie asked what happens when the AI takes over its code. Then Kim Timm introduced 3D concrete fresh off the international conference. I am currently doing Design 2 and wonder how the 3D Printed concrete would hold up to failers in slab-to-column connections in multi-story buildings where these conditions get tricky 🤔 Lastly, Ricardo Lopes stole the show with Lidar technology and showed its power to map its surroundings accurately. It is super interesting, and I would like to explore the technology side of civil engineering more. 👨🎓 Super Informative!

It’s become common place to think that qualitative perspectives are vital to responsible tech. For me, Data and Society has been a huge inspiration for what high impact sociotechnical research on tech can look like. In particular, sociotechnical thinking isn’t just for thinking critically about AI. It’s also crucial to avoiding the technocratic traps of oversight, governance and regulation. (Oversight is a technology too!) I couldn’t be more thrilled to collaborate with Data and Society’s vital community of researchers.

Great event for #students and practicing #lawyers excited about exploring technology law in Canada organized by the Canadian Technology Law Association. Don't miss it! 🤓 #TechLaw #LawInCanada #LegalTech #LawStudents #LegalInnovation #LawyersInTech #TechLawEvent #LawAndTechnology #LegalCareer

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Some of the questions we will be thinking about at #SciFM24. Feel free to add yours in the comments section. 1. What are some characteristics of problems that make them suitable to be described by foundation models? 2. How do we conceive of and construct foundation models for problems in which no clear “building blocks” exist (in contrast to areas such as materials science)? 3. Is it possible for foundation models to produce Nobel prize-type discovery of new phenomena as this usually goes against conventional wisdom? Would it be able to produce a hypothesis contrary to most data that it is likely to see? 4. What [really] is emergence? How do we better better understand the factors that determine emergent properties in large models? 5. What are the scaling laws to describe the dependency on factors such as training data size, feature dimension, computational resources, and structure and size of model?  6. Methods for training models when the inference objectives are abstract, ill-specified, or misaligned 7. Methods to develop trust in Foundation Models 8. Mathematical challenges and solution strategies for training large models given limited energy, computation, and  memory 9. Mathematical characterization of the effect of data imbalance on accuracy and generalizability, especially with regard to exceedingly rare events and other phenomena in the tails of the training distribution.  10. What are the new mathematical and statistical frameworks that embody human-like properties of reasoning, insight, creativity, and critical judgment that could enable models to postulate well beyond the data used to train them?

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Looking forward to participating in the panel discussion on the topic of Customer Success & Retention. 🤓 Always a topic that generates interesting discussion! zinguist #customerfocus #clientfirst #clientservice

Excited to share insights from the "Community Driven Approaches to Research in Technology & Society CCC Workshop Report" which outlines impactful ways research can support community needs and effective collaboration mechanisms. Check out the full report here: https://bit.ly/45pwk5H

A tip for marketers is to get your early 2024 conference requests filed now, as my experience is that you're more likely to get them signed off. I especially recommend registering your interest for Zag 2, the non-conformist conference in Edinburgh, which will look at "Generosity in a Time of Greed" in February. Zag is free to attend, but you must get tickets, so getting on that waitlist is paramount. I also recommend Digital Day, back in Glasgow for 2024, from The Marketing Society Scotland, and I'm hopeful that I'll get approval to go. With less certainty for my attendance, I suggest Turing Fest, especially for start-ups and anything by The Data Lab - Innovation Centre. This is as close as I'll get to digital marketing predictions for 2024. I learned this industry changes so rapidly that speculating beyond the obvious is generally a route to embarrassment!