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September 11, 2023
PhD Positions: Innovation Center for Artificial Intelligence >
Are you ready to create with purpose? The Innovation Center for Artificial Intelligence (ICAI) is offering you the opportunity to work on real-world challenges with access to real data. Their ultimate goal is to make AI safe and trustworthy for the benefit of everyone. Collaboration is key. Are you in?
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September 11, 2023
Together we fix the internet! >
How can we bring public values back into the Internet, and what can you yourself contribute to this?
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September 11, 2023
Using generative AI tools in education >
With the emergence of ChatGPT, there has been a lively discussion about the use of generative AI tools in education. To support teachers in using this technology, the Dutch AI Coalition's Scholing & Education working group has compiled two advisory documents.
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September 10, 2023
Podcast: What if AI learns from its own output, EU versus US and digital slaughterhouses >
What goes wrong when language models are trained mainly on their own output? Until recently, this seemed like a future possibility, but now it is a danger we should seriously consider. And can we create rules to prevent it?
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7 September 2023
Building Models to Enable Greater use of AI in The Health Care System >
80% of all patient data is unstructured. Notes from a conversation with a GP, the evaluation of a specialist in a university medical centre or even a recommendation from a pharmacist. While this 'unstructured’ data is no problem for the human eye, it presents an unsurmountable challenge to an AI-algorithm.
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6 September 2023
PhD Natural Language Processing for Health Data Science at UMC >
The UMC is looking for a motivated PhD student in the field of natural language processing with a specific interest in machine learning for health care who will work on the DataTools4Heart project.
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6 September 2023
Announcement Two New ICAI Labs >
ICAI is expanding! In the past weeks, two new ICAI labs have launched. ICAI is happy to have them as a part of our ecosystem.
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15 Augustus 2023
ADS’s Integration with Amsterdam AI - Next Steps >
Amsterdam Data Science is excited to announce the next step in joining forces with Amsterdam AI. Together, we will support Amsterdam’s development as an international hub for Responsible AI.
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14 August 2023
AI legislation at least as far-reaching as European privacy rules >
Jacintha Walters recently graduated from the HvA master's programme Applied Artificial Intelligence on a topical subject: the European AI Act, which comes into force at the end of 2023. She examined the extent to which a number of large and small companies are prepared for these regulations. On a number of points, that preparation still falls short, she finds in her thesis and in a paper, which will be out soon. "Better preparation is badly needed, because this is going to have as much impact as the AVG," she says.
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April 19 2024
Study: Dutch companies unprepared for European AI legislation >
Following the recent approval of the EU-AI Act by the European Parliament, a new study from the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences examines how Dutch companies are preparing for this sweeping legislation.
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April 19 2024
CWI researcher Madelon Hulsebos receives NGF AiNed fellowship >
Madelon Hulsebos, an incoming tenure-track researcher, has received an NGF AiNed Fellowship grant from the Dutch Research Council (NWO) for a project that enables anyone to make independent, data-driven decisions based on structured data.
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April 19 2024
ERC Advanced Grant for Peter Grünwald of the CWI >
Peter Grünwald, senior researcher at the Machine Learning group of CWI and part-time full professor of Statistical Learning at Leiden University, has been awarded an ERC Advanced Grant for his research on developing a new, revolutionary theory of statistics.
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April 18 2024
COIN-3D: collaborative innovation in 3D VLSI reliability >
The Parallel Computing Systems (PCS) team at the Informatics Institute of the UvA has secured funding for the EU Horizon CSA project "COIN-3D: Collaborative Innovation in 3D VLSI Reliability".
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April 16 2024
Podcast: The Good Conversations #26: Responsible Digital Transformations >
Tune into the latest episode of "The Good Conversations" on Spotify, which delves into the ethical, legal, and societal aspects of digital technologies.
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