IE Sci-Tech Hosts University of California Trust

As part of its Global Gateway activities, IE School of Science and Technology hosted the University of California (UC) Trust in Madrid to discuss generative AI and network with IE students and alumni.

Ikhlaq Sidhu, dean of IE School of Science and Technology, encouraged the UC alumni to think of IE University as their home while in Madrid and gave a masterclass about the evolution and mechanism of generative AI, as well as insights into the competition between different companies like Google and OpenAI in the market.

Sidhu stressed the importance of learning how artificial intelligence works when the attendees discussed its accuracy, referencing the US lawyers who got fined for citing fake cases generated by ChatGPT.

“That’s why I wanted you to see how it’s made [generative AI]. It’s literally making things up. You can say what are the top programs in law that are available today in universities – it will not just make up the order, it will make up the name of the school, the name of the program. It’s just random,” Sidhu said.  “It’s a hallucination machine, it’s just so surprising that it’s recently accurate.”

Greta Paa-Kerner, Executive Director of the University of California Trust said one of its growing missions is to bridge knowledge and research between UC and Europe.

“We want to bridge that gap between all the incredible research that happens in Europe, and what happens in the University of California,” she told the attendees.

The event also goes in line with UC Trust’s other missions in enriching alumni experience and enhancing students’ study abroad.

“We also work to enrich the experience of alumni, so that’s a bit of what we’re doing right now, is talking to alumni, trying to pull everybody together because we’re all about the ten UC campuses. We’re not about one campus,” Paa-Kerner said.