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AIhub monthly digest: December 2024 – attending NeurIPS, multi-agent path finding, and tackling illegal mining
Lucy Smith
31 Dec 2024
Welcome to our monthly digest, where you can catch up with AI research, events and news from the month past.
AIhub blogpost highlights 2024
Lucy Smith
30 Dec 2024
As the year draws to a close, we take a look back at some of our favourite blog posts.
New AI tool generates realistic satellite images of future flooding
MIT News
24 Dec 2024
The method could help communities visualize and prepare for approaching storms.
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.
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?
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."
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.
AI in cancer research & care: perspectives of three KU Leuven institutes
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.
Dynamic faceted search: from haystack to highlight
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.
Enhancing controlled query evaluation through epistemic policies
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.
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.
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?
monthly digest
AIhub monthly digest: October 2024 – Nobel Prizes, the AI Song Contest, and towards safe and reliable AI agents
Lucy Smith
29 Oct 2024
Welcome to our monthly digest, where you can catch up with AI research, events and news from the month past.
No free lunch in LLM watermarking: Trade-offs in watermarking design choices
ML@CMU
23 Oct 2024
Common design choices in LLM watermarking schemes make the resulting systems surprisingly susceptible to watermark removal or spoofing attacks.
ChatGPT is changing the way we write. Here’s how – and why it’s a problem
The Conversation
07 Oct 2024
Have you noticed certain words and phrases popping up everywhere lately?
Will humans accept robots that can lie? Scientists find it depends on the lie
Frontiers Science News
04 Oct 2024
Humans don’t just lie to deceive: sometimes we lie to avoid hurting others, breaking one social norm to uphold another.
Explainable AI for detecting and monitoring infrastructure defects
EPFL
03 Oct 2024
A team of researchers has demonstrated the feasibility of an AI-driven method for crack detection, growth and monitoring.
Linguistic bias in ChatGPT: Language models reinforce dialect discrimination
BAIR blog
30 Sep 2024
Examining how ChatGPT’s behavior changes in response to text in different varieties of English.
AfriClimate AI participation at the Deep Learning Indaba 2024: from a spark to a community, leading AI for climate action
Amal Nammouchi and AfriClimate AI
27 Sep 2024
Hear from one of the AfriClimate core team members.
monthly digest
AIhub monthly digest: September 2024 – real-time payments, evaluating dataset diversity, and AfriClimate AI at the Deep Learning Indaba
Lucy Smith
26 Sep 2024
Welcome to our monthly digest, where you can catch up with AI research, events and news from the month past.
Rethinking LLM memorization
ML@CMU
23 Sep 2024
Our approach provides a simple and practical perspective on what memorization can mean, providing a useful tool for functional and legal analysis of LLMs.
Diffusion model approach tackles aspect ratio problem in generative AI images
Rice University
20 Sep 2024
Generative AI can completely fail when prompted to generate images at different image sizes and resolutions.
Using deep learning to help distinguish dark matter from cosmic noise
EPFL
18 Sep 2024
An deep learning-aided tool developed at EPFL can distinguish dark matter’s elusive effects from other cosmic phenomena.
The Vesuvius Challenge is using AI to virtually unroll Pompeii’s ancient scrolls
The Conversation
12 Sep 2024
Since March 2023, more than 1,000 teams have entered this competition.
Geometric deep learning for protein sequence design
EPFL
10 Sep 2024
Researchers have developed an AI-driven model designed to predict protein sequences from backbone scaffolds.
How to evaluate jailbreak methods: a case study with the StrongREJECT benchmark
BAIR blog
09 Sep 2024
Providing a more accurate assessment of jailbreak effectiveness.
Developing a system for real-time sensing of flooded roads
Rice University
05 Sep 2024
Research fuses multiple data sources with AI model for enhanced sensing of road conditions.
monthly digest
AIhub monthly digest: August 2024 – IJCAI, neural operators, and sequential decision making
Lucy Smith
29 Aug 2024
Welcome to our monthly digest, where you can catch up with AI research, events and news from the month past.
Air pollution in South Africa: affordable new devices use AI to monitor hotspots in real time
The Conversation
28 Aug 2024
Creating a cost-effective air quality monitoring system based on sensors, Internet of Things and AI.
