POSTPONED: GSODI Forum on Open Data and Artificial Intelligence

Discussing the value creation potential of aligning open data with AI, ChatGPT and Bloom, with reflections on public policy

By Rutgers University, Bloustein School

Date and time

Friday, April 21, 2023 · 11am - 1:30pm EDT

Location

Gov. James J. Florio Special Events Forum

33 Livingston Avenue Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, Rutgers University New Brunswick, NJ 08901

About this event

This Open Data Forum will consist of a panel of eminent experts from the government, academia, business and media, and will present leading ideas on topics of growing importance related to open data and artificial intelligence (AI) with a focus on the impacts of aligning open data initiatives with artificial intelligence (AI), and the benefits and challenges of using applications such as Bloom, Stable Diffusion and CodeWhisperer. How will this impact the open data movement? Can ChatGPT output be treated as open data and what are the implications of treating the output from generative AIs as open data? This discussion was inspired by research on the Garden State Open Data Index (GSODI).

The Open Data – AI panel includes eminent experts as guest speakers: • Poonam Soans, Chief Data Officer & Director of Application Development, State of New Jersey• Rakesh (Teddy) Kumar, PhD., Vice President, ICS, Center for Vision Technology, SRI International• Clint Andrews, PhD, Professor & Associate Dean, Bloustein school, Rutgers University • Rachel Rosenthal, Bloomberg, editorial board member

The discussion will be moderated by professor Jim Samuel, Executive Director, Bloustein School Informatics Program.

11:00 AM – Coffee and welcome

11:30 AM – 12:30 PM Open Data Forum – Panel of experts’ presentation and discussion

12:30 PM – 1:30 PM round-table lunch with guest speakers, students and faculty

Photography will be taken at this event. By registering for this event, you are also agreeing to give Rutgers University/Bloustein School permission to record you and your registered guests’ (including minors under the age of 18) image and/or voice. You grant Rutgers/Bloustein School all rights to use these sound, still, or moving images in any medium for educational, promotional, advertising, or other purposes that support the mission of the university. You agree that all rights to the sound, still, or moving images belong to Rutgers/Bloustein School.

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Rutgers University, Bloustein School

The mission of the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey is to create just, socially inclusive, environmentally sustainable, and healthy local, national, and global communities.

Research, teaching, and outreach at the Bloustein School aim for intellectual originality and practical rigor in an atmosphere of spirited and open debate. Bloustein activities are rooted in diversity of experience and thought. They create settings where individuals and communities can flourish. The Bloustein ethic strives to improve the quality of public discourse by producing ideas and measures that have impact.

The Bloustein ethic engages those who do their jobs not just honorably, but with a passion for their work that alters their surroundings. The Bloustein School seeks to foster new research and thinking that achieve both scholarly recognition and public acceptance.

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