This Friday, Feb 9th, Black @ Mila welcomes Jamelle Watson-Daniels from Harvard for a Tea Talk on “Model Multiplicity in ML,” at 10:30 am in Mila’s Auditorium. The Fireside Chat, in collaboration with Women @ Mila, follows at 3:30 pm in the Co-Working space. Don't miss it! #BHM

Join us this Friday, Feb. 9th at 10:30am for our second Black AI Excellence Tea Talk, featuring Jamelle Watson-Daniels from Harvard University. The in-person talk, titled “The Roads Not Taken: Model Multiplicity in Machine Learning,” will be taking place in Mila’s Auditorium.

It was a pleasure having Jamelle Watson-Daniels, from Harvard University, join us at Mila - Institut québécois d'IA to give a Tea Talk on Model Multiplicity!👩🏾‍💻🎙️

We wrapped up Jamelle Watson-Daniels’s visit with a Fireside Chat presented in collaboration with Women @ Mila!📢Stay tuned for part 3 of our Black AI Excellence series! #AI #MachineLearning #BlackInTech #WomenInSTEM #BHM

Today, we’re launching Aya, a new open-source, massively multilingual LLM & dataset to help support under-represented languages. Aya outperforms existing open-source models and covers 101 different languages – more than double covered by previous models. cohere.com/research/aya

Congratulations to David Ifeoluwa Adelani, Mila Core Academic Member and Assistant Professor at McGill University who has been appointed a Canada CIFAR AI Chair! Read the announcement: mila.quebec/en/professor-d…

Thank you CIFAR , it's official. I am happy to announce that I have been awarded a Canada CIFAR AI Chair 🥳🎉 I am very grateful to CIFAR, Mila - Institut québécois d'IA and McGill University

Today we’re joined by Sanmi Koyejo, assistant professor at Stanford University to discuss his award-winning papers: ‘Are Emergent Abilities of Large Language Models a Mirage?’ & 'Comprehensive Assessment of Trustworthiness in GPT Models'. 🎧/📷: twimlai.com/go/671 🔑 takeaways (1/5)

Joignez-vous à nous ce vendredi 9 fév à 10h30 pour notre deuxième Tea Talk de l’excellence noire en IA, avec Elvis Dohmatob de FAIR à Meta. La présentation hybride, intitulée “Demystifying Neural Scaling Laws,” aura lieu en virtuel et dans l’Auditorium de Mila! Black @ Mila

This Friday, February 16th, join us in welcoming Elvis Dohmatob from FAIR, Meta AI for a compelling Tea Talk on ‘Demystifying Neural Scaling Laws’ taking place from 10:30 am to 11:30 am ET in auditorium 1 at Mila (& online) #AI #machinelearning #computerscience #blackintech #BHM

In both Canada and the United States, Black History Month is an important time to recognize and reflect upon how diverse communities make our societies more open, more equitable, more vibrant, and more just.

You are invited to our Black History Month Celebration on Thursday, Feb 29th, from 3-7pm at Mila! Join us for spotlight talks, a panel discussion, & celebration ft. cultural performances & delicious foods from the Black diaspora! #AI #BHM  RSVP here: forms.gle/HCxZE2QnXsMzcv…

This Friday, Feb 23rd, join us in welcoming Naila Murray, Director of AI Research at FAIR, Meta for a compelling Tea Talk on ‘Transformers for Weakly-Supervised Few-Shot Classification & Segmentation’ taking place from 10:30 am to 11:30 am ET in auditorium 1 at Mila (& online).

You won’t want to miss tomorrow’s Culture Show featuring a Konpa performance + FREE dance class by Danse Select Canada💃🏾, and LIVE Steelpan Music by Pöng🥁 Reserve your spot today and be ready to enjoy a delicious menu of Afro-Carib-American cuisine! bit.ly/BAIE

🪘Applications are OPEN 🪘 We are excited to open the applications for the annual meeting of the African machine learning and AI community: Deep Learning Indaba ! 💫 Apply before the 21st of March 2024, 23:59:59 UTC 🗓️ Link to apply 👉deeplearningindaba.com/2024/ #DLI2024

Le jeudi 25 avril, vous êtes conviée à notre dernier atelier d'une série sur l'intelligence artificielle organisé en collaboration avec TechnovationMontréal. Venez échanger avec les expertes Melisande Teng, Maude Lizaire et Nicole Osayande sur les opportunités d'études, de carrière

Excited to announce that we're organizing a workshop on Geometric Deep Learning at #ICML! Topics range from generative models to equivariant networks and structured representations 🌐 Looking forward to receiving your submissions and seeing you there 🌟 gram-workshop.github.io

📣 Several internship positions to work in our AI for science projects at Mila - Institut québécois d'IA with Yoshua Bengio and David Rolnick. Interdisciplinary backgrounds on ML, materials, physics and chemistry much appreciated! Details and application: forms.gle/SscXRDydfWVVz9…