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Consultation: The federal research funding agencies are seeking feedback from the research community on draft guidance related to the use of #AI in the development and review of research proposals.

The deadline to provide comments is June 14, 2024.

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#CLW2024 is a week-long campus-wide initiative of events examining the intersection between humans and generative AI in teaching and learning experiences.
May 6–10 | Browse events events.ctlt.ubc.ca/clw

Our own Dr. Michael Friedlander has been named a 2024 SIAM Fellow!
Congratulations to him for this prestigious award! 👏👏🏆 ow.ly/Zbsk50RaZmU
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A.I. models could ultimately become more powerful than the human brain in some ways – but they will do so because they learned from the human brain, says UBC Computer Science professor Dr. Jeff Clune. 🤖🧠

via The New York Times nytimes.com/2024/04/06/tec…

The youCode Hackathon, hosted by UBC Women in Data Science & UBC Women in Computer Science and sponsored by Arc'teryx, was in full swing over the weekend on campus, drawing over 200 participants!
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#hackathon #UBC #womenwhocode UBC Women in CS Arc'teryx

What an amazing wrap-up event it was for the UBC Tri-Mentoring program on April 4! They celebrated another successful year where mentors and mentees reflected on their experiences @ubcmds COGS UBC @ubc_cp_cs
Get involved! ow.ly/u4El50RaPOt

Go Vered, go Vered! Vered Shwartz 🙌

We were deeply saddened to learn about the loss of distinguished Affiliate Professor Charlotte Froese Fischer, who was instrumental in the formation of this department. Love & sympathy to her family 😔❤️

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'Reining in the many harms of the AI Trojan horse is the urgent task facing us,' said our own Alan Mackworth in this UBC article. UBC Science CAIDA_UBC

Congrats to the UBC Women in Data Science (WiDS) group for winning a Student Club Community Impact Award from the UBC Science Undergrad Society! 👏🏆
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#WomenInSTEM #WomeninCS #ComputerScience #equity @UBCScience

Sounds very interesting!

One day left to register (by March 26) for this UBC CS public lecture: 'Regulation in the Age of Cloud Computing & Generative AI,' featuring three panelists, including our own Vered Shwartz
REGISTER: ow.ly/5zUs50QL4AU
#generativeAI @UBCScience Thomas Pasquier CAIDA_UBC

Our own Jeff Clune worked with Google DeepMind on one of their latest research projects called Scalable Instructable Multiworld Agent (SIMA): it follows natural-language instructions to carry out tasks in video game settings
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#NextGenerationAI #AI

UBC CS undergrads attended a “Women in Tech” panel event hosted by EA SPORTS, with UBC CS alumna Natali Altshuler as keynote speaker. EA SPORTS also generously presented a cheque to the department
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#WomenInSTEAM #UBC @UBCScience #EASPORTS

A hearty congratulations to our own Joanna McGrenere for winning a UBC Killam Research Prize in Science! 🏆
prizes.research.ubc.ca/news-announcem…
Joanna McGrenere

Today marks the start of Nowruz, or Persian New Year. For 13 days friends and family gather to celebrate revival and renewal with the start of spring.

Happy #Nowruz to all members of the #UBC community who are celebrating!

For those of you who will celebrate the occasion this weekend... have a very happy St. Patrick's Day! (Image created by #AI )
#luck #leprechaun #stpatricksday #green

The Genie's out of the bottle! #AI is learning to create interactive video games from text or image and it's called Genie. Our own @JeffClune performed an advisory role alongside several dozen Google DeepMind researchers
EXPLAINED: ow.ly/fub450QTUWN
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