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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...