Speaker Series & PD sessions

Online Events

Nyalleng Moorosi: Getting Acquainted with AI

Nyalleng is a research fellow at the Distributed AI Research Institute and a former Google engineer. She will discuss some of the basics of AI and discuss what tasks these tools are and are not good at. She will discuss where things can go wrong in AI systems; why we have bias, property rights issues, hallucinations and many other harms that we ought to look out for when we use AI systems.

October 16, 2024, 12:00pm-12:50pm

Jonathan Jarry: What Celebrities Get Wrong About Science: Navigating Misinformation in the Age of Online Influence

Just because there's a study behind the latest claim you have seen online doesn't mean it works. Jonathan Jarry is a science communicator with McGill University’s Office for Science and Society (OSS), dedicated to separating sense from nonsense on the scientific stage. He will provide a framework to help you think about how good the evidence is behind the latest trends.

October 25, 2024, 12:00pm-12:50pm

Faculty PD Events

Using Generative AI to Foster & Develop Critical Thinking

We will explore the importance of critical thinking in using Generative AI, identify strategies to detect and mitigate biases, and discuss methods to enhance learners’ critical thinking and understanding through Generative AI.

October 22, 2024, 11:30am-12:30pm