Fundamentals of AI & ML

Issued by Future of Privacy Forum

With the increasing awareness of AI, especially generative AI, machine learning and AI are presenting new challenges for data governance in companies ranging from online service providers to retail. Generative AI can be considered a category of artificial intelligence that “generate[s] new outputs based on the data they have been trained on.” Large Language Models (LLMs) are machine learning models that are trained to process large amounts of data to generate natural language.

Type Learning
Level Foundational
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Participants will learn about the current state of ML & AI, explore the associated opportunities and challenges, data governance considerations, as well as sector specific applications
What are machine learning and AI, from supervised learning to neural networks and reinforcement learning;
How “generative AI” and Large Language Models (LLMs) are used and their implications;
Understand the impact of data collection, labeling, and use on the performance of ML & AI systems;
Appreciate the types of bias, harms, and the range of possibilities in AI systems for bias to occur.