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2024 AAAI / ACM SIGAI Doctoral Consortium interviews compilation

Lucy Smith 20 Dec 2024

We collate our interviews with the 2024 cohort of doctoral consortium participants.

Interview with Andrews Ata Kangah: Localising illegal mining sites using machine learning and geospatial data

Lucy Smith 19 Dec 2024

We spoke to Andrews to find out more about his research, and attending the AfriClimate AI workshop at the Deep Learning Indaba.

#NeurIPS social media round-up part 2

Lucy Smith 18 Dec 2024

We pick out some highlights from the second half of the conference.

#NeurIPS2024 social media round-up part 1

Lucy Smith 12 Dec 2024

Find out what participants have been getting up to at the Neural Information Processing Systems conference in Vancouver.

Multi-agent path finding in continuous environments

Kristýna Janovská and Pavel Surynek 11 Dec 2024

How can a group of agents minimise their journey length whilst avoiding collisions?

The Good Robot podcast: Machine vision with Jill Walker Rettberg

The Good Robot Podcast 17 Dec 2024

Eleanor and Kerry talk to Jill about machine vision's origins in polished volcanic glass, whether or not we'll actually have self-driving cars, and a famous photo-shopped image.

Five ways you might already encounter AI in cities (and not realise it)

The Conversation 13 Dec 2024

Researchers studied how residents and visitors experience the presence of AI in public spaces in the UK.

Congratulations to the #NeurIPS2024 award winners

Lucy Smith 11 Dec 2024

Find out who has been recognised by the conference awards.

The Machine Ethics podcast: Diversity in the AI life-cycle with Caitlin Kraft-Buchman

The Machine Ethics Podcast 11 Dec 2024

In this episode Ben chats to Caitlin about gender and AI, using technology for good, lived experience expertise, co-creating technologies, international treaties on AI, and more...

Call for AI-themed holiday videos, art, poems, and more

AIhub 06 Dec 2024

Send us your festive offerings!

What’s coming up at #NeurIPS2024?

Lucy Smith 05 Dec 2024

We take a look at the programme for the forthcoming NeurIPS conference, to take place in Vancouver.

An introduction to science communication at #NeurIPS2024

Lucy Smith 04 Dec 2024

Find out what we are planning to cover in our session at NeurIPS on 10 December.

Unmasking AlphaFold to predict large protein complexes

Linköping University 03 Dec 2024

“We’re giving a new type of input to AlphaFold. The idea is to get the whole picture, both from experiments and neural networks, making it possible to build larger structures."

How to benefit from AI without losing your human self – a fireside chat from IEEE Computational Intelligence Society

IEEE Computational Intelligence Society 02 Dec 2024

Tayo Obafemi-Ajayi (Missouri State University) chats to Hava T. Siegelmann (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)

monthly digest

AIhub monthly digest: November 2024 – dynamic faceted search, the kidney exchange problem, and AfriClimate AI

Lucy Smith 29 Nov 2024

Welcome to our monthly digest, where you can catch up with AI research, events and news from the month past.

Improving calibration by relating focal loss, temperature scaling, and properness

Viacheslav Komisarenko 28 Nov 2024

In ML classification tasks, achieving high accuracy is only part of the goal; it's equally important for models to express how confident they are in their predictions.

The Good Robot podcast: art, technology and justice with Yasmine Boudiaf

The Good Robot Podcast 27 Nov 2024

In this episode, Eleanor and Kerry chat to Yasmine Boudiaf, a researcher, artist and creative technologist who uses technology in beautiful and interesting ways to challenge and redefine what we think of as 'good'.

AI in cancer research & care: perspectives of three KU Leuven institutes

Leuven.AI Stories, Evy Lobbestael, Jens Bürger and Liesl Jacobs 26 Nov 2024

This story is a collaboration of three Institutes that are working at the intersection of cell research, cancer research and care, and artificial intelligence.

Meta now allows military agencies to access its AI software. It poses a moral dilemma for everybody who uses it

The Conversation 25 Nov 2024

Meta will make its generative artificial intelligence (AI) models available to the United States’ government.

The Turing Lectures: Can we trust AI? – with Abeba Birhane

Lucy Smith 21 Nov 2024

Abeba covers biases in data, the downstream impact on AI systems and our daily lives, how researchers are tackling the problem, and more.

Dynamic faceted search: from haystack to highlight

Mutahira Khalid, Sören Auer and Markus Stocker 20 Nov 2024

The authors develop and compare three distinct methods for dynamic facet generation (DFG).

Identification of hazardous areas for priority landmine clearance: AI for humanitarian mine action

ML@CMU 19 Nov 2024

In close collaboration with the UN and local NGOs, we co-develop an interpretable predictive tool to identify hazardous clusters of landmines.

On the Road to Gundag(AI): Ensuring rural communities benefit from the AI revolution

Pursuit, University of Melbourne 18 Nov 2024

We need to help regional small businesses benefit from AI while avoiding the harmful aspects.

Making it easier to verify an AI model’s responses

MIT News 15 Nov 2024

By allowing users to clearly see data referenced by a large language model, this tool speeds manual validation to help users spot AI errors.

The Kidney Exchange Problem: Interview with Úrsula Hébert-Johnson, Chinmay Sonar and Vaishali Surianarayanan

Lucy Smith 14 Nov 2024

We hear from the authors of work presented at IJCAI 2024.

Online hands-on science communication training – sign up here!

Lucy Smith 13 Nov 2024

Find out how to communicate about your work with experts from AIhub, Robohub, and IEEE Spectrum.

Enhancing controlled query evaluation through epistemic policies

Gianluca Cima, Domenico Lembo, Lorenzo Marconi, Riccardo Rosati and Domenico Fabio Savo 12 Nov 2024

The winners of an IJCAI2024 best paper award explain the key advances of their work.

Modeling the minutia of motor manipulation with AI

EPFL 11 Nov 2024

Developing a model to provide deep insights into hand movement, which is an essential step for the development of neuroprosthetics and rehabilitation technologies.

The machine learning victories at the 2024 Nobel Prize Awards and how to explain them

Real World Data Science 08 Nov 2024

Anna Demming delves into the details behind the prizes.

Why ChatGPT struggles with math

University of Waterloo 07 Nov 2024

Have you ever tried to use an AI tool like ChatGPT to do some math and found it doesn’t always add up?

VQAScore: Evaluating and improving vision-language generative models

ML@CMU 06 Nov 2024

We introduce a new evaluation metric and benchmark dataset for automated evaluation of text-to-visual generative models.

Harnessing AI for a climate-resilient Africa: An interview with Amal Nammouchi, co-founder of AfriClimate AI

Lucy Smith 05 Nov 2024

We spoke to Amal about how AfriClimate AI started, and the projects and initiatives that the team are focussing on.

Forthcoming machine learning and AI seminars: November 2024 edition

Lucy Smith 04 Nov 2024

A list of free-to-attend AI-related seminars that are scheduled to take place between 4 November and 31 December 2024.

The Machine Ethics podcast: Socio-technical systems with Lisa Talia Moretti

The Machine Ethics Podcast 01 Nov 2024

In this episode Ben chats to Lisa about data and AI literacy, data governance, ethical frameworks, and more.

Building trust in AI: Transparent models for better decisions

Danial Dervovic 31 Oct 2024

AI is becoming a part of our daily lives, from approving loans to diagnosing diseases. But if we can't understand the decisions the models output, how can we trust them?

Congratulations to the #ECAI2024 outstanding paper award winners

Lucy Smith 30 Oct 2024

Find out which articles won the ECAI and PAIS 2024 awards.