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During the 33rd International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), held in Jeju, I had the opportunity to meet with one of the keynote speakers, and winner of the 2024 IJCAI Computers and Thought Award, Professor Nisarg Shah. I asked him about his research, the role of theory in machine learning research, fairness and safety guarantees, regulation, conference reviews, and … Read More

The AAAI Award for Artificial Intelligence for the Benefit of Humanity recognizes positive impacts of artificial intelligence to protect, enhance, and improve human life in meaningful ways with long-lived effects. The award is given annually at the conference for the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI). This year, the AAAI Awards Committee has announced that the 2025 recipient … Read More

This post contains a list of the AI-related seminars that are scheduled to take place between 3 February and 31 March 2025. All events detailed here are free and open for anyone to attend virtually. 3 February 2025 Building Light Schrödinger Bridges Speaker: Alexander Korotin (Skoltech) Organised by: Vanderbilt University Join here. Concept bottleneck language models for protein design Speakers: … Read More

Hanna Barakat & Cambridge Diversity Fund / Better Images of AI / Shadow Work– Decrypting Bletchley Park’s Codebreakers / Licenced by CC-BY 4.0 As part of a collaboration between Better Images of AI and Cambridge University’s Diversity Fund, Hanna Barakat was commissioned to create a digital collage series to depict diverse images about the learning and education of AI at … Read More

One of the LPDI’s de novo protein binders (red) bound to the protein Bcl2 (blue) in complex with FDA-approved drug Venetoclax (beige) © LPDI EPFL By Celia Luterbacher In 2023, scientists in the joint School of Engineering and School of Life Sciences Laboratory of Protein Design and Immunoengineering (LPDI), led by Bruno Correia, published a deep-learning pipeline for designing new … Read More

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

At the end of 2024, we [Better Images of AI] launched a public competition with Cambridge Diversity Fund calling for images that reclaimed and recentred the history of diversity in AI education at the University of Cambridge. We were so grateful to receive such a diverse range of submissions that provided rich interpretations of the brief and focused on really … Read More

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

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

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