I recommend you consider attending Data Science Day on Thursday, April 4, hosted by Columbia’s Data Science Institute. There will be a number of excellent speakers on many of the topics we have discussed in class and may be helpful for your final projects.
You may be interested in attending this event of SIPA’s Institute for Global Politics on AI and global elections on Thursday, March 28.
A report (“On the Societal Impact of Open Foundation Models”) discussing policy concerns about open models, as touched on briefly in class.
Links shown in class: Bloomberg, India, skin tones.
For a number of upcoming weeks in the class we will be doing case study presentations, details on this assignment here:
The full slides for lectures 2 and 3 have been posted (the full slides for lecture 2 replace the previous link, which had a truncated set).
You should have received the group assignments for the presentations in the upcoming weeks from Liam. Please contact him if you did not. We will post the case study assignments in the coming days just so you can coordinate, but are not expected to read these until a month or more from now.
The slides for lectures 1 and 2 have been posted (at the bottom of the readings).
The course TA is Liam McCarthy ([email protected]). Please contact him for all questions about course logistics.
The first lecture will be Tuesday, January 16, 2:10-4 PM in IAB 411.
Welcome to INAF U6545, Spring 2024 at Columbia’s School of International & Public Affairs.