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https://nitter.gq/t.co/QLq6CaL729: The Waterloo Data & Artificial Intelligence Institute.

 Waterloo, Ontario
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Joined June 2017
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👋Meet CS Professor Florian Kerschbaum: a trailblazing researcher and the former executive director of #UWaterloo's Cybersecurity & Privacy Institute (CPI). 🌟He shares his research & career journey in the latest CPI spotlight! 🔗Read more: uwaterloo.ca/cybersecurity-p…
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Two students from the @WaterlooSci and @WaterlooMath are exploring new ways to bring cultivated seafood to the table. @kw_shen and @RikardSaqe apply computational modelling to understand how fish cells grow and transform. 🔗More: uwaterloo.ca/news/leveraging…
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Former computer science student turned tech billionaire Vitalik Buterin visited Waterloo last week to discuss cryptocurrency, innovation and the math behind the blockchain. More: bit.ly/3WgDUwy | #UWaterlooNews
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Wenhu Chen@WenhuChen10 Jun 2024
Our GenAI Arena paper is also out. We did some interesting analysis in the paper. Arxiv: arxiv.org/abs/2406.04485v1
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@_akhaliq10 Jun 2024
GenAI Arena An Open Evaluation Platform for Generative Models Generative AI has made remarkable strides to revolutionize fields such as image and video generation. These advancements are driven by innovative algorithms, architecture, and data. However, the rapid
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A team of #UWaterloo researchers have created a new tool – nicknamed “RAGE” – that reveals where large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT are getting their information and whether that information can be trusted. More: bit.ly/3RfAJm2 | #UWaterlooNews
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An idea that combined solutions from multiple AI models to predict wildfire growth took the top prize at the first hackathon at the #UWaterloo intended to identify cutting-edge solutions for wildfire management. 🔗 More: bit.ly/3X5Z6Gn
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UWaterloo's AI hate-speech detector, developed by young talent Liam Hebert, achieves astonishing 88% accuracy! Join the conversation on combating online hate. #AI #Technology @UWaterlooAI 🚀 therecord.com/news/waterloo-…

AI researcher at UW develops hate-speech detector

UW researchers built an AI-enabled hate-speech detector with an accuracy rate of 88 per cent

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🎉Congratulations to alum Jeff An! 🤖His AI startup @MomenticAI received $500k from @ycombinator, one of the world's biggest startup accelerators. 🔗Jeff discusses Momentic, YC & his #UWaterloo experience in our latest Q&A article: cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/alum-qa… #UWaterlooAlumni
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Velocity-linked startup Artemis Data has raised $2 million in pre-seed funding to make data cleaning 50 times faster in order to keep up with AI demand. More: bit.ly/3wNFs7v | #UWaterlooNews
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A team of researchers at #UWaterloo have developed a new machine-learning method that detects hate speech on social media platforms with 88% accuracy, saving employees from hundreds of hours of emotionally damaging work. 🚫💬 More: bit.ly/4bBAn1b | #UWaterlooNews
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Greenhouse at #UWaterloo recently partnered with @CityKitchener to host a data science hackathon where students can build solutions that address heat inequity. More: bit.ly/3QIFJ28 | #UWaterlooNews
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“It used to take Marcoux and her team a whole year to analyze the imagery,” Dr. Linlin Xu says. “With AI assistance, the researchers completed their image analysis in one summer. As we continue to train the algorithm and it gets smarter, we’ll cut that time down to eight hours.
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Dr. David Clausi, @WaterlooENG professor worked together with Dr. Marianne Marcoux, research scientist at @FishOceansCAN and adjunct professor at @umanitoba, to improve how the beluga whale population is tracked and monitored. 🔗 Learn more: uwaterloo.ca/news/engineerin…

Can AI help save beluga whales? | Waterloo News | University of Waterloo

Beluga whale populations in the Arctic are threatened by increased on- and offshore activities, such as oil and gas development, and by climate change.

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#UWaterloo researchers have developed a new method using AI that can lead to significant energy savings in buildings. 🏨 More: bit.ly/4dEk4lD | #UWaterlooNews
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.@WatSPEEDUW at @UWaterloo is an anchor academic partner of the @OntarioCofC's AI Hub, providing a central role in educating and supporting Ontario's small and medium sized enterprises to compete effectively in the use of AI. Watch the video to learn more.
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⚖️ In a new Q&A article, Research Professor Maura R. Grossman explores evidentiary issues that must be addressed by the bench and bar to determine whether GenAI output should be admitted as evidence in civil and criminal trials. uwaterloo.ca/computer-scienc… #ai #UWaterloo
In the photo is Maura R. Grossman in the University of Waterloo's Davis Centre. She is a Research Professor in the Cheriton School of Computer Science, cross-appointed to the School of Public Health Sciences, at Waterloo; an Adjunct Professor at Osgoode Hall Law School; and an affiliate faculty member of the Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence. She is also Principal at Maura Grossman Law, an eDiscovery law and consulting firm in Buffalo, New York.

ALT In the photo is Maura R. Grossman in the University of Waterloo's Davis Centre. She is a Research Professor in the Cheriton School of Computer Science, cross-appointed to the School of Public Health Sciences, at Waterloo; an Adjunct Professor at Osgoode Hall Law School; and an affiliate faculty member of the Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence. She is also Principal at Maura Grossman Law, an eDiscovery law and consulting firm in Buffalo, New York.

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The Evolving Landscape of LLM Evaluation Navigating Evaluation Pitfalls Thoughts on memorization and overfitting in LLM evals, a shift to 'vibe-based' evals, and how the future of LLM evaluation may look like. newsletter.ruder.io/p/the-ev…
The Evolving Landscape of LLM Evaluation

The Evolving Landscape of LLM Evaluation

Throughout recent years, LLM capabilities have outpaced evaluation benchmarks. This is not a new development. What is new is that the set of standard LLM evals has further narrowed—and there are...

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Meet the 2024-2025 Vector Scholarship in AI recipients who will be studying at @UWaterloo! We are thrilled to have 12 exceptional individuals from the University of Waterloo’s Computer Science, Data Science, Systems Design Engineering, and Electrical and Computer Engineering
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Couldn't come up with a clever pun for the title, so we decided just to go with the tl;dr - LLMs Can Patch Up Missing Relevance Judgments in Evaluation arxiv.org/abs/2405.04727
LLMs Can Patch Up Missing Relevance Judgments in Evaluation

LLMs Can Patch Up Missing Relevance Judgments in Evaluation

Unjudged documents or holes in information retrieval benchmarks are considered non-relevant in evaluation, yielding no gains in measuring effectiveness. However, these missing judgments may...

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CascadAI: Pan-Canadian Conference on Responsible AI - Tuesday, May 31st, free hybrid event! The Waterloo AI Institute is sponsoring a physical in-person networking event afterwards at Beertown in Uptown Waterloo. Register at hopin.com/events/cascad-ai/r…
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Led by the Waterloo Artificial Intelligence Institute, which I am proud to be associated with!
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Supported by a cross-campus collaboration, #UWaterloo is welcoming 34 Ukrainian students whose studies were interrupted by the ongoing war in their country. The students will continue their studies through the Ukrainian Academic Internship program. 🔗 bit.ly/3zb4qMH
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