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Deep learning could help medical professionals diagnose skin diseases
Lucy Smith
29 Apr 2020
Researchers in Korea have developed a convolutional neural network (CNN) architecture capable of aiding specialists in the diagnosis of 134 skin disorders. Their algorithm can also predict treatment o...
AI Song Contest
Lucy Smith
24 Apr 2020
The 2020 Eurovision Song Contest may have been cancelled, but fans of formulaic pop can still get their fill courtesy of the VPRO AI Song Contest. The contestants and their entries were revealed on 1...
AIhub Ambassador programme – call for volunteers
AIhub
22 Apr 2020
Are you a PhD student or researcher with an interest in science communication? We are recruiting AIhub Ambassadors to help us write about the latest news, research, conferences, and more, in the fiel...
Machine learning technique helps wearable devices get better at diagnosing sleep disorders and quality
Allie McFadden and Machine Learning Center at Georgia Tech
21 Apr 2020
Getting diagnosed with a sleep disorder or assessing quality of sleep is an often expensive and tricky proposition, involving sleep clinics where patients are hooked up to sensors and wires for monito...
Researchers use neural networks to shed light on hidden order problem
Lucy Smith
17 Apr 2020
Two samples of URu2Si2
In 1985 researchers at the University of Leiden published a paper describing the phase transitions of the heavy fermion alloy uranium ruthenium silicide (URu2Si2). That work ...
AAAI Squirrel AI Award for Artificial Intelligence for the Benefit of Humanity
Lucy Smith
14 Apr 2020
The AAAI Squirrel AI Award for Artificial Intelligence for the Benefit of Humanity is a new prize, to be awarded for the first time at the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (A...
Will AI write the scientific papers of the future? – Yolanda Gil’s presidential address at #AAAI20
Lucy Smith
06 Apr 2020
Professor Yolanda Gil, AAAI President
The Presidential Address at the AAAI conferences is always a much-anticipated event with the new President giving their take on an aspect of the field of artif...
The Age of A.I. YouTube series
Lucy Smith
27 Mar 2020
The YouTube originals series “The Age of A.I.” was released in December 2019. If you haven’t already seen it now could be a good time to catch up - with much of the world in enforced or voluntar...
COVID-19 resource page for AI researchers
AIhub
24 Mar 2020
Novel Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 by NIAID-RML. CC-BY-2.0.
Machine learning techniques are already playing a key role in assisting research into COVID-19. Here we provide a living document where we wil...
Integrating human behaviour into AI systems
University of New South Wales
23 Mar 2020
Human-machine interaction at UNSW
By Lachlan Gilbert
One of the holy grails in the development of artificial intelligence (AI) is giving machines the ability to predict intent when interacting wit...
COVID-19 Open Research Dataset (CORD-19) now available for researchers
Lucy Smith
17 Mar 2020
On 16 March the COVID-19 Open Research Dataset (CORD-19) was released. This comprises an open-source, machine-readable collection of scholarly literature covering COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2, and the Corona...
An AI computer lab using medical images from SCAPIS
Linköping University
11 Mar 2020
By Karin Söderlund Leifler
Scientists plan to use the same technology as that used to create deepfake videos to build AI-generated medical images. The synthesised images will present data from the...
USA releases American AI initiative annual report
Lucy Smith
03 Mar 2020
On 26 February 2020 the White House published its first annual report on the American artificial intelligence initiative. This national initiative was launched on 11 February 2019 with the aim of crea...
#AAAI20 Turing Award session: Bengio, Hinton and LeCun talk about their research
Lucy Smith
26 Feb 2020
One of the highlights of the AAAI-20 conference this month was the special event featuring Turing Award winners, Yoshua Bengio (University of Montreal and Mila), Geoffrey E. Hinton (Google, The Vector...
European Commission releases white paper on artificial intelligence
Lucy Smith
21 Feb 2020
On Wednesday 19th February the European Commission released a white paper entitled: On Artificial Intelligence - A European approach to excellence and trust. This document forms part of the EU's digit...
2020-2021 Leshner fellows to engage public on artificial intelligence
Lucy Smith
18 Feb 2020
Images courtesy of those pictured and AAAS
The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) has announced the selection of 12 researchers in the area of artificial intelligence as the...
#AAAI20 tweet round-up: Monday-Wednesday
Lucy Smith
13 Feb 2020
Monday to Wednesday at AAAI-20 saw a multitude of technical sessions, the exhibition and posters. In addition there were a number of interesting debates, invited talks and panels. Here are some tweets...
Watch the panel discussions and invited talks from #AAAI20
Lucy Smith
12 Feb 2020
If you weren’t able to attend the AAAI20 conference in New York you can catch some of the invited talks and panel sessions via the livestreamed videos. Featured events include Yolande Gil’s presid...
Congratulations to the #AAAI20 outstanding paper award winners
Lucy Smith
11 Feb 2020
The AAAI-20 outstanding paper awards were presented on Tuesday 11th February at the AAAI conference in New York. Awards and honourable mentions were given for: outstanding paper, outstanding student p...
#AAAI20 – a weekend in tweets
Lucy Smith
10 Feb 2020
It was a busy weekend at the 34th Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI). Although the AAAI technical sessions didn’t start in earnest until the Sunday there were numerous workshops on Saturd...
Live coverage of #AAAI20
Lucy Smith
08 Feb 2020
The 34th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-20), held in New York, started yesterday (Friday 7 February) and runs until Wednesday 12 February. Our Managing Editor, Lucy Smith, will be a...
Using neural networks to “upscale” old films
Lucy Smith
06 Feb 2020
The famous short, silent film L'arrivée d'un train en gare de La Ciotat, produced by Auguste and Louis Lumière in 1896, hit the news this week. AI developer Denis Shiryaev used a combination of Gig...
Launching AIhub.org – Our journey bringing together leading organisations to improve understanding of Artificial Intelligence
Sabine Hauert and Thomas G. Dietterich
27 Jan 2020
Four years ago, we (Tom Dietterich and Sabine Hauert) met at AAAI and started a discussion about how we could improve public understanding of artificial intelligence. Tom was leading AAAI at the time,...
USA releases proposed guidance for regulation of AI applications
Lucy Smith
20 Jan 2020
The United States Office of Science and Technology Policy has released draft guidance for regulation that it proposes agencies must adhere to when drawing up new AI regulations for the private sector...
NeurIPS outstanding paper awards
Michael Littman
20 Jan 2020
The NeurIPS outstanding paper awards highlight some of the most notable papers at the conference. Find out who won the awards and read summaries of their work below....
Sweden extending investment in AI
Lucy Smith
17 Jan 2020
It has been reported that Sweden is extending its investment in AI. An extra SEK 1.3 billion has been pledged that will extend the current programme by another three years, until 2029....
Yoshua Bengio and Gary Marcus debate AI
Lucy Smith
07 Jan 2020
In late December, the Montreal Institute for Learning Algorithms (MILA) hosted a two-hour debate between Gary Marcus and Yoshua Bengio....
AI holidays 2019
Sabine Hauert
24 Dec 2019
Thanks to those that sent us AI-themed holiday videos, images, and stories. Here's a sample to get you into the spirit this season....
NeurIPS continues to grow in size and diversity initiatives
Allie McFadden
22 Dec 2019
It’s not common that an artificial intelligence conference sells out as fast as a music festival, but as the Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) conference found out last year, it’s ce...
Watch the invited talks (and much more) from #NeurIPS2019
Sabine Hauert
13 Dec 2019
Couldn't make it to NeurIPS this week in Vancouver? Or simply unable to make your way to every exciting talk through the maze of 16k participants? Luckily, many of the sessions are available online.
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Live Coverage of #NeurIPS2019
Sabine Hauert
08 Dec 2019
The 33rd annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), happening this week in Vancouver, brings together more than 10k researchers and practitioners from all fields engaged in ...
Call for AI-themed holiday videos, art and more
AIhub
07 Dec 2019
That's right! You better not run, you better not hide, you better watch out for brand new AI-themed holiday material on AIhub!...
RoboNet: A dataset for large-scale multi-robot learning
BAIR blog
07 Dec 2019
By Sudeep Dasari
This post is cross-listed at the SAIL Blog and the CMU ML blog. In the last decade, we’ve seen learning-based systems provide transformative solutions for a wide range of percep...
Last month in tweets – October 2019
Nedjma Ousidhoum
07 Nov 2019
We have collected some of the month's most interesting tweets about AI....
#IJCAI2019 video competition
AIhub
16 Aug 2019
Nine videos were accepted to the IJCAI video competition. We'll update you on the winners as soon as we hear back from the conference. In the meantime - you can view the videos below or here....
#IJCAI2019 last days in tweets
Nedjma Ousidhoum
16 Aug 2019
#IJCAI2019 ended today. Besides talks, panel discussions, and presentations; the winners of this year's prestigious IJCAI awards shared their opinions about relevant future directions in the field....
