In-person Talk: Siobhan Mackenzie Hall and Fernanda Gonçalves Abrantes

Name: In-person Talk: Siobhan Mackenzie Hall and Fernanda Gonçalves Abrantes
Start: 2023-10-26
End: 2023-10-26
Location: Bonavero Institute of Human Rights - Gilly Leventis Meeting Room

Speaker(s):

Siobhan Mackenzie Hall, Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences, University of Oxford Fernanda Gonçalves Abrantes, Department of Physics, University of Oxford

Associated with:

Future of Technology and Society Discussion Group Algorithms at Work

About the event

Event date:

26 October 2023

Event time:

12:30 - 13:45

Oxford week:

MT 3

Audience:

Members of the University

Venue:

Bonavero Institute of Human Rights - Gilly Leventis Meeting Room

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We will be joined by Siobhan Hall and Fernand Abrantes, who will be presenting their research on 'Navigating data concerns in the age of large scale AI'.

Abstract:

Vision-language models (VLMs) are advancing rapidly and reaching ever-wider audience across numerous applications, such as image search queries, automatic captioning, and text-to-image generation. While there is reason to be excited about these advancements, there is reason to pause and question if these advancements are the same for everyone. In this talk, we'll explore underlying social biases that lead to representational and allocational harms, discuss where these biases arise, what can be done to counteract them and where the limitations in these methods lie.