May 10, 2024
We had the pleasure of hosting Mohammad Ziyad Kagdi, Assistant Lecture at Epoka University, in the Media Literacy in the Age of AI seminar.
This seminar was centered around the ongoing period of rapid changes in AI with Generative tools like Stable Diffusion for generating artificial images using diffusion techniques, ChatGPT - the famous chatbot based on large language models powered by OpenAI and the way these innovations make us digest digital contents.
The event initially focused on how people perceive things in their daily lives and how our perceptions can be misguided. It later explored topics like Generative AI and Stable Diffusion in an attempt to demystify Artificial Intelligence by discussing how a machine maps subjects' characteristics to form semantics in a multi-dimensional latent space when models are trained on a huge image dataset.
Finally, the seminar discussed various AI failures, biases, and discriminations, either accidental or deliberate which are inherent in the AI tools that include unjustified responses and beliefs further causing misleading information presented as facts associated with a phenomenon known as Artificial Hallucination, existent in automatically generated texts and images.
The seminar concluded with various steps to tackle these challenges inherent in our society due to widely used AI tools.
This series was organized by EPOKA University, in collaboration with the Department of Business Administration, as part of the Empowering Human Dignity of the European Union and the Western Balkans Youth Project funded by the European Union.
