First morning session
Saturday, 2024/04/20, 09:00
| Event organizer: | Collegium generale |
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| Speaker: | Prof. Dr. Mascha Kurpicz-Briki; Prof. Dr. Melinda F. Lohmann |
| Date: | 2024/04/20 |
| Time: | 09:00 Time |
| Locality: |
Meeting room castle Münchenwiler Kühergasse 7 1797 Münchenwiler |
| Registration: | Hier Anmelden |
| Characteristics: |
not open to the public free of charge |
09.00 - 09.45
Prof. Dr. Mascha Kurpicz-Briki
Stereotypes and Bias in Machine Learning Models
Research has shown that societal stereotypes can be reflected in AI technology. This might potentially lead to a bias in applications using these models, as for example decision-support, or be reflected in generated contents (like text or images) in the case of generative AI. The detection and mitigation of bias is challenging due to different reasons. The bias can, for example, be expressed directly or indirectly in many different forms, concern different characteristics as for example gender or origin, and in particular be also intersectional.
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Mascha Kurpicz-Briki obtained her PhD in the area of energy-efficient cloud computing at the University of Neuchâtel. After her PhD, she worked a few years in industry, in the area of open-source engineering, cloud computing and analytics. She is now professor for data engineering and co-lead of the Applied Machine Intelligence Research Group at the Bern University of Applied Sciences, investigating how to apply digital methods and in particular natural language processing to social and community challenges.
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09.45 - 10.30
Prof. Dr. Melinda F. Lohmann
Legal Aspects of ChatGPT
ChatGPT can help you write romantic poetry or create a company vision. But what are the legal risks of using tools like ChatGPT? We will look at the Terms of Use and Policies OpenAI has laid down, and discuss different legal aspects relating to Generative AI, such as liability, intellectual property and data protection issues.
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After completing her law degree at the University of St.Gallen, Melinda Lohmann completed a doctorate on legal issues relating to vehicle automation and was admitted to the bar. In 2016 Lohmann was appointed Assistant Professor of Business Law with a focus on information law and Director of the Research Centre for Information Law at the University of St.Gallen. She wrote her habilitation thesis on contract law issues relating to digitalisation and was awarded a teaching licence for private and technology law at the University of St.Gallen in 2023. Since then, she has worked as an Associate Professor of Private and Information Law at the University of St.Gallen.
Melinda Lohmann conducts research at the interface of law and innovative technologies. She has a soft spot for self-driving vehicles, robots and artificial intelligence and researches how the law should deal with these innovations on the one hand and how technological innovations are changing the legal market on the other. Melinda Lohmann is Director of the Institute for Law of Innovation and Technology (LIT-HSG), where she leads various research projects in the field of technology law. She is an Associate Researcher at the Robotics and Biology Laboratory of the Technical University of Berlin at the Institute for Computer Engineering and Microelectronics and a Scientific Advisor to the Swiss robot manufacturer F&P Personal Robotics.
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