AIhub monthly digest: January 2022 – new voices in AI, bug bounties, and arXiv hits two million

Pulling back the curtain on neural networks

#NeurIPS2021 invited talks round-up: part three – the collective intelligence of army ants

New voices in AI: NLP for low resource languages

AI powers autonomous materials discovery

Artificial intelligence helps speed up ecological surveys

An energy-based perspective on learning observation models

Introducing new voices in AI

RLiable: towards reliable evaluation and reporting in reinforcement learning

The Machine Ethics Podcast: 2021 in review with Merve Hickok

Maria Gini wins the 2022 ACM/SIGAI Autonomous Agents Research Award

#NeurIPS2021 invited talks round-up: part two – benign overfitting, optimal transport, and human and machine intelligence

AI Standards Hub – a new UK initiative

Forthcoming machine learning and AI seminars: January 2022 edition

Interview with Chien Lu: analyzing text documents with sophisticated covariates

Which mutual information representation learning objectives are sufficient for control?

What is AI? Stephen Hanson in conversation with Terry Sejnowski

Hot papers on arXiv from the past month: December 2021

The Machine Ethics podcast DeepDive: AI and games

Keeping one step ahead of earthquakes

Understanding user interfaces with screen parsing

Bridge data: boosting generalization of robotic skills with cross-domain datasets

Artificial intelligence in 2021: the AIhub roundup

Hot papers on arXiv from 2021

AI holidays 2021

Some highlights from our focus on the UN SDGs

Why generalization in RL is difficult: epistemic POMDPs and implicit partial observability

AIhub monthly digest: December 2021 – #NeurIPS2021, sustainable cities and the Reith lectures

Radical AI podcast: featuring Raziye Buse Çetin

Robot reinforcement learning: safety in real-world applications

Harnessing the power of AI to elucidate mobile traffic consumption at city scale

Interview with Huy Ha and Shuran Song: CoRL 2021 best system paper award winners

#NeurIPS2021 in tweets – highlights from the first week

Designs from data: offline black-box optimization via conservative training

#NeurIPS2021 invited talks round-up: part one – Duolingo, the banality of scale and estimating the mean

Forthcoming machine learning and AI seminars: December 2021 edition

#NeurIPS2021 in tweets – highlights from the first two days

Call for AI-themed holiday videos, art and more

Smart cities and AI

AIhub launches focus series on sustainable cities and communities

Congratulations to the NeurIPS 2021 award winners!

Hot papers on arXiv from the past month: November 2021

AIhub monthly digest: November 2021 – avoiding hype, musical dissonance, and AI thanksgiving

What’s coming up at NeurIPS 2021?

EMNLP 2021 in tweets

AIhub coffee corner: AI thanksgiving

Interview with Tao Chen, Jie Xu and Pulkit Agrawal: CoRL 2021 best paper award winners

Machine learning in chemistry – a symposium

A first-principles theory of neural network generalization

How to spot AI hype

Compression, transduction, and creation: a unified framework for evaluating natural language generation

Natural language processing model for African languages

Machine learning for climate science and Earth observation – a webinar from Climate Change AI

Making RL tractable by learning more informative reward functions: example-based control, meta-learning, and normalized maximum likelihood

Analysing ice hockey videos with deep learning

Stanford HAI 2021 fall conference: four radical proposals for a better society

Radical AI podcast: featuring Sasha Costanza-Chock

Focus on sustainable cities and communities: call for contributions

Forthcoming machine learning and AI seminars: November 2021 edition

PICO: Pragmatic compression for human-in-the-loop decision-making

AI and music festival brings together musicians, artists and scientists

AIhub coffee corner: Are deep learning’s returns diminishing?

We are delighted to announce the launch of Scicomm – a joint science communication project from AIhub and Robohub

Hot papers on arXiv from the past month: October 2021

Using imaging and machine learning tools to analyse features of plant leaves

Call for nominations: ACM SIGAI Autonomous Agents Research Award 2022

AIhub monthly digest: October 2021 – life on land, foundation models and Beethoven’s 10th

Unsolved ML safety problems

How to avoid hype when promoting your AI research

The Machine Ethics Podcast: AI readiness with Tim El-Sheikh

Join our team of AIhub ambassadors!

Interview with Lily Xu – applying machine learning to the prevention of illegal wildlife poaching

What bird is singing? Merlin Bird ID app offers instant answers

Distilling neural networks into wavelet models using interpretations

Cynthia Rudin wins AAAI Squirrel AI Award

What is AI? Stephen Hanson in conversation with Richard Sutton

The Machine Ethics podcast: What excites you about AI?

The Machine Ethics podcast: What scares you about AI?

Artificial intelligence can help highway departments find bats roosting under bridges

Forthcoming machine learning and AI seminars: October 2021 edition

How a team of musicologists and computer scientists completed Beethoven’s unfinished 10th Symphony

New digital tools to track illegal wildlife trade online

AI tools for assessing zero-deforestation commitments in Vietnam

AIhub launches focus series on life on land

AIhub coffee corner: Foundation models

CLAIRE and ELLIS receive German AI Prize 2021

Hot papers on arXiv from the past month: September 2021

What can I do here? Learning new skills by imagining visual affordances

Developing organic batteries using machine learning

AIhub monthly digest: September 2021 – AI100 report released, Tutorial Tuesdays, and haikus

Reducing the cost of localized named entity recognition

The limitations of limited context for constituency parsing

AI as an accelerator of the energy transition, opportunities for a carbon-free energy system

UK launches National AI Strategy

Allocating fair shares of land

Radical AI podcast: featuring Jason Edward Lewis

Life below water focus series round-up: ocean ecosystems, marine litter and autonomous vehicles

One Hundred Year Study on Artificial Intelligence (AI100): 2021 report released

Microblogs from ACL 2021

The Machine Ethics podcast: responsible AI research with Madhulika Srikumar

Forthcoming machine learning and AI seminars: September 2021 edition

AIhub coffee corner: AI at the Olympics

Focus on life on land: call for contributions

“Connection with the past”: using AI to help find and preserve Europe’s historical smells

Strategic instrumental variable regression: recovering causal relationships from strategic responses

What is AI? Stephen Hanson in conversation with Michael Jordan

Researchers develop real-time lyric generation technology to inspire song writing

Congratulations to the authors of the #IJCAI2021 distinguished papers

Energy as a fundamental right

Hot papers on arXiv from the past month: August 2021

AIhub monthly digest: August 2021 – IJCAI, RoboCupJunior, and happy birthday to arXiv

#IJCAI2021 invited talks round-up 2: system two deep learning, and knowledge representation for generalisation

RoboCupJunior: Interview with Amy Eguchi

#IJCAI2021 invited talks round-up 1: fairness in multiwinner voting, and combining AI and robotics to augment human abilities

Congratulations to the #IJCAI2021 best paper award winners

Tweet round-up from #IJCAI2021 – workshops and tutorials

The Machine Ethics podcast: AI regulation with Lofred Madzou

What’s coming up at #IJCAI2021?

Universal weakly supervised segmentation by pixel-to-segment contrastive learning

Machine learning technique to help keep your personal data your own

A unifying, game-theoretic framework for imitation learning

Bipedal robot developed at Oregon State learns to run

Forthcoming machine learning and AI seminars: August 2021 edition

The surprising effectiveness of PPO in cooperative multi-agent games

The Machine Ethics podcast: How to design a moral algorithm with Derek Leben

Protecting user privacy with voice conversion

Artificial intelligence speeds land-use classification

Hot papers on arXiv from the past month: July 2021