The Future of Water Research: Harnessing AI while avoiding the pitfalls
- Date
- Monday 27 November 2023, 12:00 - 16:00
- Location
- Nexus
Date: Monday 27 November
Time: 12:00-16:00
Venue: Nexus
Registration via the booking form has now closed. Please contact us at water@leeds.ac.uk for further information.
Objectives:
- Ensure water@leeds is AI ready.
- To understand in which water topics AI is already used, and in which it isn’t.
- To showcase some of the water AI research already underway in water@leeds.
- To explain what is happening in the University of Leeds context with regards to AI.
- To explore other aspects of AI (e.g. Large Language Models) that are likely to affect Water Research in the near future.
- Explore interest in pulling the outcomes into a thought leadership piece to submit to a journal.
Tentative Agenda
Lunch (12-1pm)
AI Context Talks (1-2pm)
- Introduction to workshop 10 min: Professor Mark Trigg, Associate Director water@leeds
- AI overview and initiatives across the University, 20 min: Professor David Hogg, School of Computing
- University of Leeds response to AI, 30 mins (10m talk, 20m questions): Professor Paul Glover – Chair of the Working Group on AI Technologies in Research – WAITR
water@leeds AI Showcase (2-2:45pm) (x4 talks)
Coffee (2:45-3pm)
AI Breakout topics (3-3:45pm)
- How to get started with AI
- Harnessing AI in Student Dissertation projects
- Exploring AI in the research process
Breakout summary and workshop close (3:45-4pm)