Welcome to our January 2023 month-to-month digest, the place you’ll be able to meet up with any AIhub tales you will have missed, get the low-down on current occasions, and rather more. This month, we spotlight a number of the tasks pertaining to low-resource languages, hear about counterfactual explanations for land cowl mapping, and discover out about machine studying strategies for night-time distant sensing.
Pure language processing for low-resource languages
We’re delighted to share the second article in our focus sequence on “AI all over the world”: Pure Language Processing for low-resource languages. This time we enter the area of pure language processing and spotlight a number of the work and initiatives being carried out on low-resource languages.
New voices in AI with Srija Chakraborty
In our newest episode of New voices in AI, Srija Chakraborty tells us about her work making use of machine studying strategies to night-time distant sensing for measuring nightlights from a wide range of pure and synthetic sources.
AIhub Espresso nook: massive language fashions for scientific writing
The AIhub espresso nook captures the musings of AI specialists over a brief dialog. Within the newest dialogue, Sabine Hauert, Michael Littman and Sarit Kraus focus on LLMs and, specifically, the potential implications of their use for writing scientific content material.
Interview with Katharina Weitz and Chi Tai Dang: Do we’d like explainable AI in corporations?
Of their venture report paper Do We Want Explainable AI in Corporations? Investigation of Challenges, Expectations, and Possibilities from Staff’ Perspective, Katharina Weitz, Chi Tai Dang and Elisabeth André examine staff’ particular wants and attitudes in direction of AI. On this interview, Katharina and Chi Tai inform us extra about this work.
Counterfactual explanations for land cowl mapping
Of their paper Counterfactual Explanations for Land Cowl Mapping in a Multi-class Setting, Cassio Dantas, Diego Marcos and Dino Ienco apply counterfactual explanations to distant sensing time sequence knowledge for land cowl mapping classification. On this interview, Cassio tells us extra about explainable AI and counterfactuals, the workforce’s analysis methodology, and their fundamental findings.
Lanfrica reaches 1000 assets
Lanfrica is a web based useful resource centre that catalogues, archives and hyperlinks African language assets. On the finish of final 12 months, the workforce reached the milestone of 1000 assets linked from their platform. You may learn extra about this achievement, and about Lanfrica right here.
AI100 early profession essay competitors
The One Hundred 12 months Examine on Synthetic Intelligence (AI100) is a longitudinal research of progress in AI and its impacts on society. Each 5 years, a report is revealed how AI will have an effect on work, life and society. To assist information the 2026 report, the committee is inviting authentic essay submissions that react instantly to 1 or each of the AI100 reviews. Discover out extra in regards to the competitors, and how you can submit an essay, right here.
Six grand challenges for human-centred synthetic intelligence
A bunch of 26 specialists throughout academia, business and authorities has revealed an article outlining what they see as six grand challenges for human-centred AI. They determine the principle challenges as growing AI that (1) is human well-being oriented, (2) is accountable, (3) respects privateness, (4) incorporates human-centred design and analysis frameworks, (5) is governance and oversight enabled, and (6) respects human cognitive processes on the human-AI interplay frontier.
An introduction to federated studying
The Open Knowledge Institute (ODI) has revealed a report on federated studying. On this doc, the authors present a complete account of federated studying, and discover the potential it has for each business use instances, and for organisations all in favour of utilizing federated studying.
On a regular basis AI
In a brand new podcast sequence, On a regular basis AI, host Jon Whittle (CSIRO) explores the AI that’s already shaping our lives. With the assistance of knowledgeable company, he explores how AI is utilized in artistic industries, well being, conservation, sports activities and house. You may hearken to the entire episodes right here.
Some highlights from 2022
In case you missed it, our AIhub 2022 AI round-up highlights a number of the notable analysis developments, awards, information and coverage on the planet of synthetic intelligence from final 12 months. We additionally collected a few of our favorite weblog posts and interviews from 2022. Lastly, we collated all episodes of our New voices in AI sequence right here.
AIhub at AAAI 2023
We’re trying ahead to attending AAAI subsequent month. We’re happy to report that we are going to be giving a science communication course on Wednesday 8 February. If you happen to’re going to AAAI and are all in favour of discovering out how one can talk your analysis to a common viewers, then you will discover us in room West Overlook, Degree 2, ranging from 08:30.
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Lucy Smith
, Managing Editor for AIhub.
