POSTPONED - Desjardins Speaker Series: AI & Entrepreneurship – A Nobel Laureate’s Advice for Startup Founders…and All of Us (Livestream)
We regret to inform you that due to unforeseen family circumstances for Professor Hinton, Thursday’s event has been cancelled (both in-person and online).
We sincerely apologize for any inconvenience and will be exploring the rescheduling of this event. Stay tuned for updates when available.
For those planning to attend in person on March 6, you can still join us in the Schwartz Reisman Innovation Campus and meet over 50 U of T startups as part of the True Blue Expo (11:00am–5:30pm) and watch the Desjardins Startup Prize competition (12:00pm-2:00pm) as top startups compete for $100,000 in prize funding. Registration for both in-person events is still open.
Thank you for your continued support of our community.
To mark the culmination of U of T Entrepreneurship Week, join University Professor Emeritus and Nobel Prize winner, Geoffrey Hinton, for a candid conversation with Jordan Jacobs, Managing Partner & Co-Founder of Radical Ventures, moderated by Ivan Semeniuk, Award Winning Journalist at The Globe and Mail, on the opportunities, challenges, and obligations when building a new venture leveraging the power of artificial intelligence.
Artificial intelligence adoption has quickly captured the public imagination and sparked important debates around the world. Governments, business leaders and global citizens are having critical conversations about if and how AI should be regulated and what guardrails need to be in place to protect society. Advocates on both sides argue about both the enormous potential and risks of this disruptive technology and the rapid emergence of generative AI and large language models (LLMs) has accelerated this debate.
The fireside chat will cover a broad range of topics, including:
Canada’s place in the AI revolution
Do LLMs understand language in the same way as we do?
Reasons for optimism
Risks of AI
Is digital intelligence just better than analog intelligence?