Waterloo Data & Artificial Intelligence Institute

📰Cybersecurity and Privacy Institute secures $1.5M in funding UWaterloo Cybersecurity and Privacy Institute awarded funding for four projects from the National Cybersecurity Consortium to advance digital security in Canada https://lnkd.in/ggQsKeKg 📬 Check out this article and more in our December newsletter! #ai #uwaterloo #cybersecurity #funding

📰Waterloo alum inspires student innovations in women’s health Velocity and FemTech Canada support Waterloo students to design transformative tech solutions for improving women’s health and well-being https://lnkd.in/gPYEmRWr 📬 Check out this article and more in our December newsletter! #AI #uwaterloo #uwaterlooproud #alum #innovation #Velocity

🚀Generative artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly transforming industries and reshaping the competitive landscape — is your organization prepared to adapt? This upcoming course hosted by WatSPEED at the University of Waterloo, "Operationalizing Generative AI: Executive Insights and Applications" is your perfect starting point! AI enables organizations like yours to automate processes, support decision-making with data-driven insights, and improve client and employee experiences. But without a solid understanding of how this emerging technology functions, you may miss out on significant opportunities or fail to anticipate risks. 🌟 Key Features: • What can attendees expect to learn in the Operationalizing Generative AI program?  • Understand relevant uses of Large Language Models (LLMs) and how they will affect the future of work •  How to bring LLMs into your organization successfully  •  How to recognize and select the right tools for different LLM tasks  •  How to evaluate cost/quality trade-offs when designing and deploying LLMs  •  How to know where LLMs can fit within enterprise IT systems  • How to identify opportunities, risks, and barriers to implementation  •  Understand the current regulatory landscape, broader societal concerns, 📅 Course Overview: • Landscape overview  • Understanding Large Language Models (LLMs) and their disruptive potential  • Bringing LLMs into your organization successfully  • Deploying LLMs  • Workshop: Identifying opportunities for deployment • Deploying LLMs responsibly  • Technical implementation  • Fireside chat: LLMs in the wild 👥 Who Should Enroll: • Organizational leaders (executives of all levels) who wish to understand how generative AI and LLMs are reshaping the business and government sectors. • Leaders who need to know what's required to implement LLM applications in their organizations. • Senior managers and directors who wish to enhance their digital-ready skill sets. • Consultants who wish to further understand LLMs and their applications. 🔗 Learn more and enroll now: https://lnkd.in/g94TU6xa #AI #genai #watspeed  

📰It does compute: student founders build and iterate faster with Velocity’s GPU server Server is open to all University of Waterloo students working on startup ideas https://lnkd.in/gB36HkSq 📬 Check out this article and more in our December newsletter! #AI #Uwaterloo #Velocity #Startup

🌟This month's featured lab: The SafeAI Lab (SAIL) led by Assistant professor Hongyang Zhang of the University of Waterloo Cheriton School of Computer Science. The SafeAI Lab (SAIL) at the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science tackles challenges at the intersection of elegant theory and practical methodology, with a broad focus on machine learning and algorithmic research. The lab’s current research areas include World Models, AI Security & Privacy, and Inference Acceleration. In World Models, SAIL aims to create systems capable of imagining and generating data to train agents for real-world applications, following a trajectory from AAA games to world models and ultimately to real-world deployment. 🔗 Learn more: http://https/github.com/SafeAILab #Ai #machinelearning #AIsecurity

🌟 The Tuning Free (Inference Time) Alignment of Large Language Models Seminar is happening next week on Monday, December 9, 2024, starting at 1:00 pm! Join us and our industry host, Amrit Singh Bedi, for this exciting seminar on large language models alignment, hosted by Waterloo.AI. This event is an incredible opportunity to learn about lightweight and adaptable frameworks for aligning large language models without computationally heavy fine-tuning. 📍 Location: DC 1304
🕐 Time: 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm For more information, check out the link in our bio, where you’ll find further details on the event. Don’t miss this chance to connect with experts and dive deep into cutting-edge advancements in AI research! https://lnkd.in/gnnzF4C7 #ai #uwaterloo #seminar #waterlooengineering

📰New AI chatbot could be the ‘door’ to mental health The app is being deployed at Waterloo’s Campus Wellness and 30 clinics across Canada, making support more accessible and affordable  https://lnkd.in/gUe-Aizy 📬 Check out this article and more in our December newsletter! #AI #uwaterloo #uwaterloostudent #mentalhealth #LLM

Absolutely delighted that the AI for Society course I have been working on, along with several faculty members and graduate students, is now complete and has been released to the University of Waterloo community. This was a project that was conceptualized with UW President Vivek Goel and has now come to fruition. A write up is available here https://lnkd.in/gRsCfp3v. The online course consists of an introductory module on the basics of AI and Machine Learning and nine other modules that discuss various societal implications of the presence of these technologies in our day to day lives through the lens of engineers, computer scientists, humanists, social scientists, and health experts. As I am quoted in the article; “AI technology is reshaping how we live, work and learn and it’s essential that our community is equipped to engage with these changes responsibly,” says Dr. Anindya Sen, acting executive director for the Cybersecurity and Privacy Institute (CPI) and a member of Waterloo Data and AI, who led the development of AI for Society. “This course is for anyone impacted by AI — not just future technologists but anyone who interacts with AI-driven systems, from health-care applications to educational tools. It also emphasizes the implications for individual privacy and the challenges posed by the massive datasets fueling AI.” The course was developed with support from UWaterloo Cybersecurity and Privacy Institute, Waterloo Data & Artificial Intelligence Institute and the university's Trust Network. In the future, I hope to release a version of this course to the entire country, as the University of Helsinki did with its "Elements of AI" course. Truly grateful to my wonderful colleagues Mark Crowley, Kami Vaniea, Sirisha Rambhatla, Plinio Morita, PhD MSc PEng, Anita Layton, Zahid Butt, Clemens Possnig, Patricia Marino, Mathieu Doucet, Carla Fehr, Samantha Meyer, Helen Chen, Diogo Barradas, Shubhankar Mohapatry, Xi He, Yaoliang Yu, Yiwei Lu, and Bing Hu for working so hard on this and making it happen. A shout out to Mary Wells and Ashley Rose M. for their strong support through the entire process and most of all to Bronwyn Korb, course designer "Extraordinaire" and her team for their dedication and many, many hours of work for making this come come to life.

📰Waterloo is leading the way in AI education across society New workshop and online course enhance AI literacy and promote responsible usage, drawing on expertise across disciplines https://lnkd.in/gX2hDSZK 📬 Check out this article and more in our December newsletter! #AI #AIeducation #uwaterloo #Society #workshop

📰Q&A with the Experts: Why ChatGPT struggles with math Why AI still finds it challenging to generalize beyond the data they have been trained on https://lnkd.in/gpWWa4Qi. 📬 Check out this article and more in our November newsletter! #AI #LLM #Math #waterloo #chatgpt