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Jun 11, 2024 | 
aihub.org | Lucy Smith |Ndane Ndazhaga |Isabella Bicalho-Frazeto
Image credit: Photo by Giorgio Trovato on Unsplash. The winners of three International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) awards have been announced. These three distinctions are: the Award for Research Excellence, the Computers and Thought Award and the John McCarthy Award.
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Jun 10, 2024 | 
aihub.org | Lucy Smith |Ndane Ndazhaga |Isabella Bicalho-Frazeto |Bo Qiang
This post contains a list of the AI-related seminars that are scheduled to take place between 10 June and 31 July 2024. All events detailed here are free and open for anyone to attend virtually. 10 June 2024Who Do We Become When We Talk to Machines? Speaker: Sherry TurkleOrganised by: Cambridge Digital HumanitiesRegister here.
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Jun 6, 2024 | 
aihub.org | Lucy Smith |Ndane Ndazhaga |Isabella Bicalho-Frazeto |Bo Qiang
Each year the AAAI recognizes a group of individuals who have made significant, sustained contributions to the field of artificial intelligence by appointing them as Fellows. Over the course of the next few months, we’ll be talking to some of the 2024 AAAI Fellows. In the first interview in the series, we met Professor Mausam and found out about his research, career path, mentorship, and why it is important to add some creative pursuits to your life.
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Jun 4, 2024 | 
aihub.org | Lucy Smith |Ndane Ndazhaga |Isabella Bicalho-Frazeto |Bo Qiang
African languages are not well-represented in natural language processing (NLP). This is in large part due to a lack of resources for training models. Henok Biadglign Ademtew and Mikiyas Girma Birbo have created an Amharic, Ge’ez, and English parallel dataset to help advance research into low-resource languages. We spoke to Henok about this project, the creation of the dataset, and some of the challenges faced.
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May 30, 2024 | 
aihub.org | Oliver Bown |UNSW Sydney |Lucy Smith |Ndane Ndazhaga
By Oliver Bown, UNSW SydneyIn March, we saw the launch of a “ChatGPT for music” called Suno, which uses generative AI to produce realistic songs on demand from short text prompts. A few weeks later, a similar competitor – Udio – arrived on the scene. I’ve been working with various creative computational tools for the past 15 years, both as a researcher and a producer, and the recent pace of change has floored me.
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May 29, 2024 | 
aihub.org | Lucy Smith |Ndane Ndazhaga |Isabella Bicalho-Frazeto
Welcome to our monthly digest, where you can catch up with any AIhub stories you may have missed, peruse the latest news, recap recent events, and more. This month, we learn about causality and natural language, find out about the grassroots initiative AfriClimate AI, and discuss what responsible and trustworthy AI really means.
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May 24, 2024 | 
aihub.org | Seheno Andriantsaralaza |Université d’Antananarivo |Lucy Smith |Ndane Ndazhaga
The collaboration between communities and scientists aims to restore baobab forests in Madagascar to this natural state. Stéphane Corduant, Mada-Movies. Courtesy ARO Baobab Project. By Seheno Andriantsaralaza, Université d’AntananarivoSix of the world’s eight baobab species are indigenous to Madagascar, where the distinctive trees with giant trunks have historically grown in huge forests.
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May 13, 2024 | 
aihub.org | Lucy Smith |Ndane Ndazhaga |Isabella Bicalho-Frazeto
This post contains a list of the AI-related seminars that are scheduled to take place between 13 May and 30 June 2024. All events detailed here are free and open for anyone to attend virtually. 13 May 2024Faithful Model Explanations through Energy-Constrained Conformal CounterfactualsSpeaker: Patrick Altmeyer (Delft University of Technology)Organised by: Imperial College LondonSign up here.
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May 9, 2024 | 
aihub.org | Lucy Smith |Ndane Ndazhaga |Isabella Bicalho-Frazeto
In this interview series, we’re meeting some of the AAAI/SIGAI Doctoral Consortium participants to find out more about their research. The Doctoral Consortium provides an opportunity for a group of PhD students to discuss and explore their research interests and career objectives in an interdisciplinary workshop together with a panel of established researchers. In this latest interview, we hear from Sukanya Mandal about her PhD so far.
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Apr 24, 2024 | 
aihub.org | Lucy Smith |Ndane Ndazhaga |Isabella Bicalho-Frazeto
Artificial Intelligence (AI) – models that process large and diverse datasets and make predictions from them – can have many uses in nature conservation, such as remote monitoring (like the use of camera traps to study animals or plants) or data analysis. Some of these are controversial because AI can be trained to be biased, but others are valuable research tools. Biologist Daniele Silvestro has developed an AI tool that can help identify conservation and restoration priorities.
