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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....
Last month in tweets – September 2019
Nedjma Ousidhoum
03 Oct 2019
Every month, we gather some of the most interesting tweets capturing latest results, debates, and events....
Computing Up – Theories of theories of everything
Computing Up
03 Oct 2019
Inspired by a WIRED profile of Karl Friston, Michael Littman and Dave Ackley talk about theories of everything, and theories thereof....
Tackling climate change with AI
The Royal Society
11 Aug 2019
By Jessica Montgomery, Senior Policy Adviser
As concerns about the impact of climate change (PDF) grow, so too is the debate about the environmental impact of artificial intelligence (AI) technolog...
From bench to bedside: AI for health and care
The Royal Society
13 Jul 2019
By Jessica Montgomery, Senior Policy Adviser
Advances in artificial intelligence (AI) technologies over the last five years have generated great excitement, especially in the areas of health and ca...
AI Profiles: Interview with Leslie Kaelbling
AI Matters
29 Jun 2019
By Marion Neumann
Welcome to the eighth interview profiling a senior AI researcher. This time we will hear from Leslie Kaelbling, Panasonic Professor of Computer Science and Engineering in the Depar...
Springing into conferences (at the AAAI spring symposium)
Laura Gemmell
01 Jun 2019
In March of this year I was lucky to travel to my first academic conference (thanks very much to EPSRC Rise and AAAI). Feeling a little bit nervous, extremely jet-lagged, and completely in awe of Stan...
AI Profiles: An Interview with Thomas Dietterich
AI Matters
22 Apr 2019
By Marion Neumann
Welcome to the eighth interview in our series profiling senior AI researchers. This month we are especially happy to interview our SIGAI advisory board member, Thomas Dietterich, Di...
Robust human organizations: Lessons for artificial intelligence research and application
Thomas G. Dietterich
11 Apr 2019
In the 1980s and 1990s, several researchers (most notably Todd LaPorte, Gene Rochlin, and Karlene Roberts) undertook the study of human organizations that operate high-risk systems while achieving ver...
