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Radical AI podcast: featuring Eun Seo Jo
The Radical AI Podcast
30 Jul 2020
Hosted by Dylan Doyle-Burke and Jessie J Smith, Radical AI is a podcast featuring the voices of the future in the field of artificial intelligence ethics. In this episode Jess and Dylan chat to Eun Se...
“I have a joke…”
Lucy Smith
29 Jul 2020
Twitter users will have seen the proliferation of "I have a joke" tweets in their feed over the past few days. The AI community produced some gems so we've collected a selection here for your amuseme...
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AIhub coffee corner: The future of conferences
AIhub
23 Jul 2020
The AIhub coffee corner captures the musings of AI experts over a 30-minute conversation. This month we discuss conferences and whether they will ever be the same again now we’ve had a taste of the ...
Interview with Marc Habermann – #CVPR2020 award winner
AIhub
22 Jul 2020
Qualitative results from DeepCap
Marc Habermann received an Honorable Mention in the Best Student Paper category at CVPR 2020 for work with Weipeng Xu, Michael Zollhöfer, Gerard Pons-Moll and Christ...
Radical AI podcast: featuring Abeba Birhane
The Radical AI Podcast
21 Jul 2020
Hosted by Dylan Doyle-Burke and Jessie J Smith, Radical AI is a podcast featuring the voices of the future in the field of artificial intelligence ethics. In this episode Jess and Dylan chat to Abeba ...
#ICML2020 – the conference in tweets
Lucy Smith
17 Jul 2020
There was lots going on at the virtual ICML conference this week. The event was bookended by tutorials and workshops, with the invited talks and poster sessions happening mid-week. There were also num...
Radical AI podcast: featuring Lilly Irani
The Radical AI Podcast
08 Jul 2020
Hosted by Dylan Doyle-Burke and Jessie J Smith, Radical AI is a podcast featuring the voices of the future in the field of artificial intelligence ethics. In this episode Jess and Dylan chat to Lilly ...
Radical AI podcast: featuring Ruha Benjamin
The Radical AI Podcast
25 Jun 2020
Hosted by Dylan Doyle-Burke and Jessie J Smith, Radical AI is a podcast featuring the voices of the future in the field of artificial intelligence ethics. In this episode Jess and Dylan chat to Ruha B...
Radical AI podcast: featuring Sarah Myers West
The Radical AI Podcast
16 Jun 2020
Hosted by Dylan Doyle-Burke and Jessie J Smith, Radical AI is a podcast featuring the voices of the future in the field of artificial intelligence ethics. In this episode Jess and Dylan chat to Sarah ...
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AIhub coffee corner: ArXiv and the future of AI publishing
AIhub
15 Jun 2020
The AIhub coffee corner captures the musings of AI experts over a 30-minute conversation. This month we discuss the role of arXiv and publishing in the field of artificial intelligence research. Joini...
Interview with Falaah Arif Khan – talking security, comics and demystifying the hype surrounding AI
AIhub
11 Jun 2020
Falaah Arif Khan is the creator of “Meet AI” – a scientific comic strip about the human-AI story. She currently works as a Research Engineer at Dell EMC, Bangalore, but will shortly will be head...
AI in tweets – May 2020: talks, reads and tutorials
Nedjma Ousidhoum
10 Jun 2020
This month we have gathered tweets about some interesting talks, reads, and tutorials relating to AI....
The artificial intelligence economy
Idees Magazine
05 Jun 2020
By Joan Torrent-Sellens
In economics we generally use the term artificial intelligence (AI) to describe the process of creating and developing non-human intelligent technological agents1. AI can be...
Q&A: research into sound-collecting app to aid respiratory disease diagnosis
Horizon
18 May 2020
Professor Cecilia Mascolo at the University of Cambridge, UK, hopes her coronavirus sounds app could provide the data needed to build a quick and cheap Covid-19 screening test in the future. Image cre...
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AIhub coffee corner: The role of regulation in AI
AIhub
15 May 2020
The AIhub coffee corner captures the musings of AI experts over a 30-minute conversation. In light of the recent EU whitepaper on AI and US proposed guidance for regulation, our experts discuss how fa...
Engineering Out Loud: S9E4 – socializing robots
Engineering Out Loud
08 May 2020
Heather Knight and her team in the CHARISMA Robotics Lab at Oregon State are working on developing artificial social intelligence for robots.
Why should robots have artificial social intelligence? ...
Tweet round-up from #ICLR2020
Lucy Smith
07 May 2020
Last week saw the International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR 2020) go virtual. Over 5600 people, from 89 different countries, registered to participate. Here we provide a round-up of ...
Interview with Siddharth Bhatia: a new approach for anomaly detection
AIhub
01 May 2020
In work presented at AAAI-20 researchers from National University of Singapore, Carnegie Mellon University, and KAIST described their approach for anomaly detection in time-evolving graphs. In this in...
How healthcare systems could use AI technology to tackle COVID-19
The Conversation
23 Apr 2020
Image: Wikipedia. Published under a CC BY-SA 4.0 licence
By Justine Olawande Daramola, Cape Peninsula University of Technology
COVID-19 and its grave impact worldwide has emphasised just how criti...
Thinking about ‘ethics’ in the ethics of AI
Idees Magazine
16 Apr 2020
By Pak-Hang Wong and Judith Simon
A major international consultancy firm identified ‘AI ethicist’ as an essential position for companies wanting to successfully integrate artificial intelligenc...
Engineering Out Loud: S9E2 – AI, explain yourself
Engineering Out Loud
07 Apr 2020
Artificial intelligence systems are being entrusted with critical choices that can change lives. Alan Fern, a professor of computer science, wants them to explain themselves.
Can we trust artificia...
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AIhub coffee corner: Can we avoid another “AI winter”?
AIhub
13 Mar 2020
The AIhub coffee corner captures the musings of AI experts over a 30-minute conversation. This edition focusses on the state of the AI research landscape amid claims from some quarters that we are on ...
Conferences – could virtual be a reality?
Lucy Smith
12 Mar 2020
The outbreak of COVID-19 has seen disruption and cancellation of a number of scientific conferences. One of the biggest casualties was the APS March meeting, the world’s largest physics conference,...
Engineering Out Loud: S9E1 – the beautiful music of robotics and AI
Engineering Out Loud
06 Mar 2020
Professors Kagan Tumer (left) and Tom Dietterich discuss their research at the Collaborative Robotics and Intelligent Systems Institute.
How do you integrate ethics, policy, and practicality into t...
AI in tweets – February 2020
Nedjma Ousidhoum
04 Mar 2020
Here are a selection of tweets we have collected from February 2020....
First analysis of the EU whitepaper on AI
ALLAI
28 Feb 2020
Image courtesy of ALLAI.
By Virginia Dignum, Catelijne Muller and Andreas Theodorou
This week, Europe took a clear stance on AI; foster the uptake of AI technologies, underpinned by what it call...
Interview with Vidal Alcázar – #AAAI20 award winner
Vidal Alcázar
25 Feb 2020
Vidal Alcázar, Pat Riddle and Mike Barley receiving their honorable mention award at AAAI-20, New York. Photo credit: AAAI.
Vidal Alcázar, Pat Riddle and Mike Barley received an honourable me...
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AIhub coffee corner: AI as an inventor
AIhub
14 Feb 2020
The AIhub coffee corner captures the musings of AI experts over a 30-minute conversation. This edition focusses on AI as an inventor. This discussion was prompted by news that an artificial intelligen...
AI in tweets – January 2020
Nedjma Ousidhoum
31 Jan 2020
Happy new year 2020! Below are the tweets about AI we have collected this month....
AI Policy Matters – US national AI strategy
Larry Medsker and AI Matters
30 Jan 2020
By Larry Medsker
AI Policy Matters is a regular column in AI Matters featuring summaries and commentary based on postings that appear twice a month in the AI Matters blog....
AI is transforming medicine – but it can only work with proper sharing of data
The Conversation
23 Jan 2020
Anonymised data is crucial for AI to work. alphaspirit/Shutterstock
By Ara Darzi, Imperial College London
It is not often that one witnesses a transformational advance in medicine. But the appli...
Computing Up – Michael Carbin computes the winning ticket and more
Computing Up
22 Jan 2020
Michael Carbin, Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT, joins Michael Littman and Dave Ackley to discuss neural net lottery tickets, computing with uncertainty and m...
AI in tweets – November and December 2019
Nedjma Ousidhoum
10 Jan 2020
We have collected some of the most interesting tweets about AI from the past couple of months....
#NeurIPS – tackling climate change with machine learning
Lucy Smith
08 Jan 2020
Climate change was one of the many topics covered at NeurIPS 2019 (the Thirty-third Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems), with a day-long workshop dedicated to the theme. The se...
AI Policy Matters – facial recognition, deepfakes, AI regulation and policy
Larry Medsker and AI Matters
21 Nov 2019
AI Policy Matters is a regular column in AI Matters featuring summaries and commentary based on postings that appear twice a month in the AI Matters blog....
Computing Up – Living computation and society
Computing Up
21 Nov 2019
Michael Littman and Dave Ackley revisit the meaning of life (the subject of the second Computing Up conversation) in the context of politics and society and human destiny....
