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Join us at the Borderlands Brewing Co. Downtown Taproom on Thursday, April 18 for Information on Tap, a fascinating series of short presentations by University of Arizona School of Information faculty.
Information on Tap: The Birds and the Bees and ChatGPT
with Diana Daly, Martin Frické and Bryan Heidorn
AI vs. the Unpredictable
Diana Daly, Associate Professor of Practice, and Kainan Jarrette
Using techniques from improvisational theater and an AI-generated fallacy detector, Diana Daly and Kainan Jarrette explore how AI detects strategies used in disinformation, how we can use AI to teach critical thinking skills and increase skepticism in humans, and what we might miss once we all become robots.
GPTs and Librarianship
Martin Frické, Professor Emeritus
The talk will be on three examples of GPTs in use. The main one will be on bringing the contents of the Vatican Secret Archive to the world at large. (Eat your heart out, Dan Brown (cf. The Da Vinci Code and Angels and Demons)).
Pre-lecture reading PDF: GPTs: Concerns, Limitations and (Some) Responses by Martin Frické
When the Birds and Bees Do Their Thing: Unsupervised Machine Learning of Forest Phenophase
Bryan Heidorn, Professor
Plants as well as birds and bees have a natural rhythm of change driven by weather and sunlight. Climate changes is causing shifts in these patterns, sometimes with catastrophic consequences. Professor Heidorn will show how an unsupervised machine learning method and other tricks can be used to recognize phenophase shifts from cameras mounted over forests.