AIhub monthly digest: January 2025 – artists’ perspectives on generative AI, biomedical knowledge graphs, and ML for studying greenhouse gas emissions

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Welcome to our monthly digest, where you can catch up with any AIhub stories you may have missed, peruse the latest news, recap recent events, and more. This month, we hear about artists’ perspectives on generative AI, learn how to explain neural networks using logic, and find out about using machine learning for studying greenhouse gas emissions. Using ML for … Read More

Translating fiction: how AI could assist humans in expanding access to global literature and culture

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By Andy Miah, University of Salford News that Dutch publishing house Veen Bosch & Keuning (VBK) has confirmed plans to experiment using AI to translate fiction has stirred up a thought-provoking debate. Some believe it marks the beginning of the end for human translators, while others see this as the opening up of a new world of possibilities to bring … Read More

Interview with Yuki Mitsufuji: Improving AI image generation

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Yuki Mitsufuji is a Lead Research Scientist at Sony AI. Yuki and his team presented two papers at the recent Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2024). These works tackle different aspects of image generation and are entitled: GenWarp: Single Image to Novel Views with Semantic-Preserving Generative Warping and PaGoDA: Progressive Growing of a One-Step Generator from a Low-Resolution … Read More

The Machine Ethics podcast: 2024 in review with Karin Rudolph and Ben Byford

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Hosted by Ben Byford, The Machine Ethics Podcast brings together interviews with academics, authors, business leaders, designers and engineers on the subject of autonomous algorithms, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and technology’s impact on society. 2024 in review with Karin Rudolph and Ben Byford For our 2024 round up episode we’re chatting with Karin Rudolph about the AI Ethics Risk and … Read More

The Good Robot podcast: Using feminist chatbots to fight trolls with Sarah Ciston

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Hosted by Eleanor Drage and Kerry McInerney, The Good Robot is a podcast which explores the many complex intersections between gender, feminism and technology. Using feminist chatbots to fight trolls with Sarah Ciston In this episode, we talk to Sarah Ciston, an artist, coder, writer, and critical AI scholar. We asked Sarah to talk about this badass chatbot they created … Read More

An open-source training framework to advance multimodal AI

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Trying to model the physical reality by assembling various modalities: the image shows a couple of oranges seen through the lens of multiple modalities, with each slice showing a different way one might perceive and understand this scene. The modalities from left to right represent surface normals (the color represents surface orientation), depth (distance to the camera, red=near, blue=far), RGB … Read More

Optimizing LLM test-time compute involves solving a meta-RL problem

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Figure 1: Training models to optimize test-time compute and learn “how to discover” correct responses, as opposed to the traditional learning paradigm of learning “what answer” to output. By Amrith Setlur, Yuxiao Qu, Matthew Yang, Lunjun Zhang, Virginia Smith, Aviral Kumar The major strategy to improve large language models (LLMs) thus far has been to use more and more high-quality … Read More

Generating a biomedical knowledge graph question answering dataset

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By Xi Yan The biomedical domain is a complex network of interconnected knowledge, encompassing genetics, diseases, drugs, and biological processes. While knowledge graphs (KGs) excel at organizing and linking this information, their complexity often makes them difficult for users to query. Ideally, users should be able to ask questions in natural language and receive precise answers directly from the KG, … Read More

US judges demand explanation from the SEC for its refusal to set clear crypto rules

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A three-judge panel from the US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit has demanded the SEC explain why it didn’t respond to Coinbase’s requests for clear regulations A recent ruling by the panel has called the US Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) actions “arbitrary and capricious” The US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit has ordered that the … Read More