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SUMMARY:Magic Grant Information Session (Columbia)
DESCRIPTION:The David and Helen Gurley Brown Institute at Columbia Journalism School and the School of Engineering at Stanford are delighted to announce its 2023-2024 Magic Grant program. Applications are due March 29\, 2024! \nTo provide more information about our grants and the application process\, the Brown Institute is hosting Magic Grant Information Sessions on the following dates: \n\nWed\, 2/7 8-9am ET\nMon\, 3/4 5-6pm ET\nMon\, 3/18 5-6pm ET\nWed\, 3/27 8-9am ET\n\nEach year\, the Brown Institute awards close to $1M in grants to help you “follow your passion and experiment with new approaches to storytelling\,” to paraphrase Helen Gurley Brown. \nOur “Magic Grants” are a unique blend of technology and media. Grantees develop new ways to find and tell stories —  producing platforms that extend our creativity\, or creating powerful new works of journalism. \n\nA Magic Grant can mean financial support for you and your team for up to a year (fellowships at Columbia\, research positions at Stanford)\nA Magic Grant can provide funding for your project — for production\, prototyping\, or purchasing services\, software or equipment\nA Magic Grant offers access to mentorship and our extensive alumni network\n\nThe Magic Grant program provides year-long funding awards of up to $150\,000 ($300\,000 for teams with members of both the Columbia and Stanford communities and their collaborators). In addition to funding\, grantees have access to a distinguished advisory and mentoring group\, and an extensive and inspiring alumni network. \nIf you’re interested in learning more about our Magic Grant offerings\, come to our upcoming information session where you can find out: \n\nThe types of projects we’re interested in supporting\nThe various types of support we offer to grantees & fellows\nEligibility guidelines\nHow our staff can help you develop your proposal\nHow to apply\n\nIf you have any questions\, write to us at browninstitute@columbia.edu.
URL:https://brown.stanford.edu/event/magic-grant-information-session-16/
LOCATION:Brown Institute at Columbia\, 2950 Broadway\, New York\, NY\, 10027\, United States
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SUMMARY:Human Rights Reporting: A Focus on Journalism and AI
DESCRIPTION:Join us for this special panel which will focus on global reporting on human rights\, as defined by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights\, within the evolving landscape of AI and the challenges and opportunities it presents. \nDelving into the influence of AI in international media and how the technology can be leveraged for human rights reporting\, the panel will address the technology’s computational capacities\, analytic capabilities\, map making\, and case making for reports of human rights abuse and documentation. The event aims to bring together leading experts\, scholars\, practitioners\, and students across the disciplines of journalism\, AI\, and human rights. \nPanelists\nLena Arkawi\nCEO & Founder\nSourceable \nSam Gregory\nExecutive Director\nWitness \nMounir Ibrahim\nExecutive Vice President of Public Affairs and Impact\nTruepic \nModerated by\nAnya Schiffrin\nDirector of Technology\, Media\, and Communications\nColumbia University\nSchool of International and Public Affairs \n  \nPlease join us for this timely exchange\, a joint presentation of the David and Helen Gurley Brown Institute for Media Innovation at the Columbia Journalism School and the United Nations Association of New York\, when our special guests will include: Lena Arkawi\, CEO and Founder of Sourceable\, an online platform and mobile application empowering citizen journalists; Sam Gregory\, Executive Director of the global human rights organization WITNESS; and Mounir Ibrahim\, EVP of Public Affairs and Impact for Truepic\, an award winning technology company specializing in image provenance and authenticity. The panel will be moderated by Anya Schiffrin\, director of Technology\, Media\, and Communications at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs. \nRegister for this event here\n 
URL:https://brown.stanford.edu/event/human-rights-reporting-a-focus-on-journalism-and-ai/
LOCATION:Brown Institute at Columbia\, 2950 Broadway\, New York\, NY\, 10027\, United States
CATEGORIES:Panels & Seminars
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SUMMARY:Generative AI "Dine and Design"
DESCRIPTION:In the last year\, new generative AI platforms have made headlines. Large Language Models (LLMs) like ChatGPT\, Bard\, LLaMA and claude have been compared on their abilities to perform \n\n\nknowledge and reasoning tasks (answering questions\, solving problems with external tools)\,\nlanguage manipulation (generating summaries\, translating text\, “reversioning” stories)\, and\ncommon data analyses (structuring data\, tagging and clustering data\, writing and fixing code).\n\nUnlike AI applications of the past\, these platforms performed these tasks reasonably well “out of the box\,” without a lot of extra training. This means prototyping a new AI task can be as simple as typing a prompt into ChatGPT. \nDo you have a computing idea you would like to try\, perhaps related to some data you’re looking at? Or some documents or a web site? Do you have an idea to engage audiences around some AI application? What about tools for local newsrooms? \nThe second Wednesday of every month\, join us at the Brown Institute from 6-9pm for a dine-and-design event — open time to explore\, to ask questions\, to socialize with other students and practicing journalists\, all interested in generative AI. A light dinner will be served. \nWe’ll talk about good design approaches\, and about the strengths and weaknesses of these models. What works and what doesn’t? How do we make sure the platform is performing as we expect? What are the ethical concerns? \nA light dinner will be served and perhaps a 10-minute presentation will kick off the evening with an inspiring example. \nStudents with all technical backgrounds are welcome. Come\, build!
URL:https://brown.stanford.edu/event/generative-ai-dine-and-design/
LOCATION:Brown Institute at Columbia\, 2950 Broadway\, New York\, NY\, 10027\, United States
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SUMMARY:Artificial Intelligence and Photography
DESCRIPTION:The Columbia School of the Arts and the Brown Institute are pleased to welcome Ben Cheatham for a talk on AI and images\, focusing on new tools being imagined to support work in creative industries. \nBen Cheatham is VP of Data and AI at Microsoft. He directs multidisciplinary teams of data scientists\, engineers and designers who co-innovate AI solutions alongside Microsoft’s strategic consumers.
URL:https://brown.stanford.edu/event/artificial-intelligence-and-photography/
LOCATION:Brown Institute at Columbia\, 2950 Broadway\, New York\, NY\, 10027\, United States
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