Submitted by Rachel Gardner on Wed, 06/09/2023 - 15:19
How AI 'truth-tellers' can check the evidence behind claims made by politicians and by Chat GPT; how different ways of representing environmental data can make it easier for us to understand; and how we can make computing education more relevant to school children.
These are the topics in the spotlight at an event we're holding on Friday 22 September as part of the University's Alumni Festival.
At our event 'Computer Vision: Seeing the Wood for the Trees', three speakers will introduce us to the Department of Computer Science and Technology and some of the research – in AI, Education and the Environment – taking place here today.
- With fake news and misinformation on the rise, we need reliable ways to check the truth of what we are being told. So we’ll meet the researcher here developing an AI fact-checker that can automatically verify claims made to us online by politicians, by Chat GPT and in Wikipedia pages.
- Increasingly, authorities across the UK are making data about our local environments available online - but often in forms that don't help people see the larger patterns and insights. We’ll be introduced to new ways of visualising this data that can help us understand it better and draw conclusions from it.
- With computer science and technology impacting ever more of our everyday lives, researchers here are looking for ways to make computer science teaching more relevant to every schoolchild in every classroom.
Computer Vision: Seeing the wood for the trees' takes place in-person in Room East 1 in the West Hub on JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge (just across the road from our building.) It will be introduced by our incoming Head of Department, Prof Alastair Beresford. We ask alumni to register if they would like to attend.
The event will run from 14:00 - 15:00 followed by refreshments. We look forward to seeing alumni there.
