Spotlight Seminars on AI – Spring 2024 Program

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The Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence (AI*IA), in collaboration with AISB (Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour, UK), is pleased to announce the Spring 2024 program of the Spotlight Seminars on AI.

Spotlight Seminars Autumn 2024 Programme

The aim of the seminars is to illustrate, explore and discuss current scientific challenges, trends, and possibilities in all branches of our articulated research field. The seminars will be held virtually on YouTube, on a monthly basis, by leading Italian researchers as well as by top international scientists.

The seminars are mainly aimed at a broad audience interested in AI research, and they are also included in the Italian PhD programme in Artificial Intelligence; indeed, AI*IA warmly encourages the attendance of young scientists and PhD students.

The “Spring 2024” edition features 3 seminars:

April, 29 – 5:00PM (CET)
Title: Consciousness and Laws of Learning
Speaker: MARCO GORI, University of Siena
Watch Online: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ti0uPvIwyDM

May, 14 – 5:00PM (CET)
Title: Fostering Responsible AI with MLCommons
Speaker: ELENA SIMPERL, King’s College London

June, 20 – 5:00PM (CET)
Title: TBA
Speaker: GUY VAN DEN BROECK, UCLA

The joint AI*IA/AISB Committee of the Spotlight Seminars on AI:
Giuseppe De Giacomo
Floriana Grasso
Antonio Lieto
Bertie Muller
Luciano Serafini

AIAI becomes AIAI

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The Artificial Intelligence Applications Institute (AIAI) was created by the University of Edinburgh in 1983 to work alongside its academic Department of Artificial Intelligence to encourage the development and take-up of artificial intelligence methods. Over the years it has created many innovative applications of AI with a wide range of clients, government agencies and collaborators. In 2001 it became part of the Centre for Intelligent Systems and their Applications (CISA) within the School of Informatics at Edinburgh continuing to lead its AI applications-orientated work. On 1st December 2019, the name of the Centre was changed to the “Artificial Intelligence and its Applications Institute” (AIAI) to reflect both the continuing research and applications aspects of the work. Applied AI work continues to be performed by staff, students and collaborators across the School of Informatics.

Austin Tate, Emeritus Professor of Knowledge-Based Systems, University of Edinburgh

Note: an extended version of this announcement, together with details of the history of Artificial Intelligence research at Edinburgh since 1963, will feature in the upcoming issue of the AISB Quarterly magazine.