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Roel
Dobbe tenured at Department of
Engineering Systems and Services (TUD)
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Roel Dobbe got tenure at the Faculty of
Technology, Policy and Management in the Department of
Engineering Systems and Services. His lab, called
“Socio-Technical-Ecological perspectives on Algorithmic and
Data-driven (STEAD) Systems Lab”, aims to build bridges between
the technical disciplines typically involved in the foundational
advances in these systems as well as their applications, and the
many non-technical disciplines and actors that are or should be
engaged in better understanding their impacts and design for
safer and more responsible configurations.
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Christof Monz appointed professor of Language Technology
(UvA)
Christof Monz
has been appointed professor of Language Technology at the
Faculty of Science of the University of Amsterdam (UvA). His
professorial inauguration is on June 1st 2023, entitled
"From patterns to meaning and back.
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The title of PInar Yolum's professor chair will be
Trustworthy AI (UU)
PInar
Yolum has been appointed professor at Utrecht University (UU) at
the Faculity of Science, Department of Information and Computing
Sciences. Once the date of her inaugural lecture is set this
will be communicated the HI community.
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Bernd Dudzik,
Mike Ligthart, Erman Acar, Karine Miras
all promoted to Assistant
professors
Good
news, four of our HI Post-docs were already promoted to assistant
professors. Luckily, they will stay affiliated with the Hyrbid
Intelligence Centre having projects to supervise in the 1st or
2nd recruitment round. We are looking forward to their much-valued
contributions to the programme.
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Post Mortem AI discussion series kicks
off with Odette Scharenborg as first presenter
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"The
limitations of state-of-art speech recognisers" presented
by Odette Scharenborg
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On April
13, 2023, the HI Special Interest Group on Ethics organised the first of a Post Mortem AI
discussion series. The goal of this series is to bring together
philosophical researchers from ESDiT and empirical researchers
from Hybrid Intelligence to discuss ways in which the development
and implementation of artificial intelligence went wrong, and how
we can improve on such errors in the future.
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Consortium meeting 8-10 May
Let's hop on a
boat and stay for three days on a beautiful island. This May, next
to several different weather types, the Vlieland meeting has
offered us a programme centered around co-activities.
Matt
Johnson presented his keynote lecture on
"Co-activity analysis" and guided the subsequent exercise
to try and make a co-activity analysis for our two Case Studies on
Diabetes and Robotic Surgery. We enjoyed each others company while
having dinner, going for beautiful walks, including the HI
outdoor assignment organised by Davide Dell'Anna, bowling, swimming
and watching the movies selected by Max van Duijn. We thank all
Matrix Leads for organising their meetings and giving an
introduction to the new structure in HI. Following the poster
session all posters including those who did not find the
opportunity to present will end up on the HI website soon.
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Consortium meeting 6 February
The
programme of our consortium meeting in Amersfoort was centered
around the Debate on
the relevance of Large Language Models to HI. Each
panel member, Piek Vossen, Maarten de Rijke, and Bart
Verheij, presented two propositions to start a lively panel
discussion with the audience.
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Masha
Tsfasman under the guidance of Enrico and Catholijn from the TU
Delft team won the ChatGPT challenge, with "The promising use-case of ChatGPT: Analysing
group deliberations and debates". To
make sure that the new projects and their initiators of our
second recruitment round are well known to all consortium members
we organised speed-dates to discuss the project goals and how
they connect with the existing projects and initiatives.
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HI consortium meetings
12 - 13 September 2023
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HI part of winning team in the AI for Global
Climate Cooperation Competition
Erman Acar,
Robert Loftin and Bram Renting were part of the winning team in the
AI
for Global Climate Cooperation Competition. This
competition focused at designing climate agreements and negotiation
protocols that lead to a sustainable future.
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Birna van Riemsdijk among the 5 nominees for
Women in AI NL
We’re proud
that Birna van Riemsdijk is one of the 5 nominees for the “Women
researchers in AI NL” awards. The award is dedicated to women
conducting research that has an impact on the future of AI, women
willing to contribute with their expertise and personality to
lead the future of AI. Many congratulations to Birna for this
well deserved nomination!
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Hayley Hung wins ERC consolidator grant
Hayley Hung
has been awarded an ERC consolidator grant. The NEON project
investigates how we can develop artificially intelligent systems
to infer social intentions from non-verbal behaviour.
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The
project addresses intention detection in open-ended contexts
involving large unstructured social gatherings such as networking
or mingling events. During these events, there are no prearranged
conversations, multiple conversations can occur at the same time,
and all conversation come about via coordination with multiple
independent actors with their own possibly conflicting goals. How
do we train machines to perceive plausible intentions in these
complex, unstructured social environments?
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Siddarth Mehrotra wins book from Prof. Ben
Shneiderman
With his
report entitled ‘Designing for Appropriate Trust in Human-AI
Interaction’, Siddarth Mehrotra was one of the winners of best
report on Human-Centered AI on the topic of Designing for
Appropriate Trust in Human-AI Interaction organized by Prof. Ben
Shneiderman in cooperation with Oxford University Press 100th
NOTE of Human-Centered
AI Google Group. He will receive a signed copy of the
book Human-Centered AI from Oxford University Press.
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Henry Prakken wins Stanford CodeX 2023 price
At CodeX
FutureLaw 2023 Conference, it was announced that Henry Prakken
was awarded with the 2023
CodeX Prize, an annual award given to an individual or
group for a noteworthy contribution to computational law. He is
one of the three winning academic researchers from three
different countries who have collaborated for decades on legal
argumentation theory. Their areas of research broadly impact on
how artificial intelligence can be leveraged in the formulation
of sophisticated legal arguments.
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Mike Ligthart
presents at TEDxVUAmsterdam
Mike Ligthart was one of the
speakers of the third event of TEDxVUAmsterdam,
which focussed on the theme 'Shaping Tomorrow'. His TEDtalk,
entitled ‘A Robot With a Story’, introduced the audience to Hero
and Memo, two social robots. Hero wants to become champion of the
robo-olympics. Memo, on the other hand, has no nose and just wants
to know how the forest smells like. Through their stories, Hero is
able to distract children with cancer from stressful moments in the
hospital and Memo is able to elicit stories, thought forgotten,
from people with dementia. These stories were created by a close
collaboration between creative writers, the people interacting with
the robots, and me, an artificial intelligence (AI) researcher. In
this TEDtalk, Mike reflected on this collaboration, and professed
his love for the profession of writers and all that it brings. By
understanding, no feeling, the human experience writers are pivotal
for designing meaningful interactions between people and social
robots. Something AI cannot solve on its own. The TED talk can be
viewed here: https://youtu.be/OnJ-ZtEnwi4
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Selection
Keynotes 2023
“Authenticity in the Digital Age:
Designing for Appropriate Trust”
Siddarth Mehrotra gave a keynote at the ‘Authenticity in
the Digital Age’ symposium in Tilburg, NL, 2023.
“Combining Knowledge Graphs with Machine Learning”
Frank van Harmelen was keynote speaker at SWAT4HCLS,
Semantic Wep Applications and Tools for Healthcare and Life
Sciences, Basel, Switzerland, 2023.
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Selection
Presentations 2023
“Aspects of provability and
interpretability”
Rineke Verbrugge was invited to give the prestigious 2023
Lindström Lectures, University of Gothenborg, Sweden, 2023.
“ChatGPT en andere taalmodellen” (ChatGPT and other
language models)
Michiel van der Meer gave a presentation for the Management Team
(MT) of the Dutch Normalisation Institute (Nederlands
Normalisatie Instituut, NEN) in Delft, NL, 2023.
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FoMo lecture by
Selene Báez Santamaría
Selene
Báez Santamaría gave a lecture in the FoMo series, which is a
series of seminars highlighting the work being done in Amsterdam
around foundation models: large, highly re-usable
machine learning models trained on great amounts of data.
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Selenes
FoMo lecture is entitled ‘A Practical Approach to GPTx Models:
Evaluating Task-Specific Performance and Insights’, concerning
task-specific performance of large language models. Within
research, the API accessibility of such models has made it
possible to effortlessly explore these model’s performance on a
wide range of scientific tasks. In this talk Selene presented her
findings from three specific tasks: knowledge base completion,
argument mining, and task-oriented dialogue incorporating
subjective knowledge.
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Matrix structure and Mid-term
review interview
By now the Hybrid Intelligence Centre is working
with the matrix structure as depicted. To find
more information and your position in the matrix please
complete this survey.
Based on the survey results mailing lists and the project manual
will be updated. Please send an email to the HI project
manager if you are not on your preferred mailing list yet.
On the 5th of September, a
delegation of our Hybrid Intelligence Centre will be
interviewed by the review committee selected by NWO. To
prepare for this evaluation we delivered our self-evaluation report
by the 1st of April 2023. Once the evaluation has been finished the
report will be made public.
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