From dpereyra at faculty.ocadu.ca Mon Sep 25 18:35:19 2017 From: dpereyra at faculty.ocadu.ca (Pereyra, David) Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2017 18:35:19 +0000 Subject: Invitation for the Race to the Edge References: Message-ID: <98802F76-C17E-40DC-BE86-21482E733890@ocadu.ca> Race to the EDGE 49 McCaul Street | Oct.10th at 10am to 5pm BIG IDeA and DEEP 2017 are looking for teams to help prepare the racecourse for our AI "Race to the Edge". Our society is about to hand over many decisions to machines and we need to make sure they understand and can serve human diversity. Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems currently have difficulty recognizing and understanding outlying and edge scenarios or people. This is bad for people because we are relying on AI systems more and more because soon systems won?t be able to deal with the unexpected, transfer knowledge to new situations, address weak signals, predict changes or deal with our current diverse society. - Jutta Treviranus This is even worse for people who are different from the models the machines use. People who are unusual or different: will be filtered out of competitive job applications won?t be offered limited school placements won?t get credit, loans or insurance won?t be understood by voice recognition systems won?t be recognized by identity systems may be flagged as a threat may be run over by automated vehicles won?t be properly diagnosed by telehealth systems We need you to prepare the tests for the ultimate challenge. We are looking for diverse teams that will prepare edge scenarios that might stump the AI systems. Ideally each team should include someone that has experienced being excluded because of difference and someone with a very basic knowledge of machine learning systems and data. Register here to participate in Race to the Edge **Please note that each team completing an edge scenario and success criteria will have a chance to receive a prize donated by a leading AI company! __________________________________ DAVID PEREYRA, Ph.D, MArch, MA Project & Outreach Coordinator INCLUSIVE DESIGN RESEARCH CENTRE T 416 977 6000 x4672 E dpereyra at ocadu.ca w www.bigidea.one -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: image002.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 9658 bytes Desc: not available URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: image007.png Type: image/png Size: 21549 bytes Desc: not available URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: image005.png Type: image/png Size: 2415 bytes Desc: not available URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: image008.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 3736 bytes Desc: not available URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: smime.p7s Type: application/pkcs7-signature Size: 1546 bytes Desc: not available URL: