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Data spaces and compute power advances in language technology and speech recogntion at FCAI

The LAREINA and ALT-EDIC projects in the language technology space are developing speech models for special purposes and for languages with fewer speakers.

Amanda AlvarezSeptember 24, 2024Language, Collaboration, Research, Industry and Society

Just believing that an AI is helping boosts your performance

People perform better if they think they have an AI assistant – even when they’ve been told it’s unreliable and won’t help them.

Amanda AlvarezMay 14, 2024Human-Computer Interaction, Research

A new way to do controlled experiments in medicine: simulate the control

Generative AI could augment randomized controlled trials (RCT), making them cheaper and more accurate.

Amanda AlvarezApril 11, 2024Research, Generative AI, Machine Learning, Probabilistic AI, Health

AI’s blabbing problem: how to stop leaks in systems that feed off our most private data

Antti Koskela’s research uses math and computer science to guarantee privacy when training and using artificial intelligence models.

ELLISAmanda AlvarezJanuary 30, 2024ELLIS, Research, Privacy and Security, Ethics

FCAI Community Event and NeurIPS 2023

The FCAI community gathered to share recent work, discuss new Teams and celebrate NeurIPS submissions.

ELLISAmanda AlvarezDecember 8, 2023Announcements, Events, Research, ELLIS

Digital virology pipeline brings AI’s expert eye to identifying infections

Microscopy plus machine learning equals a quick, cheap and automated way to detect coronavirus and other emerging pathogens.

Amanda AlvarezNovember 13, 2023Health, Collaboration, Machine Learning, COVID-19, Research

New FCAI software: the open-source PyVBMC package speeds up statistical inference

PyVBMC, a new open-source Python package for efficient statistical inference with complex computational models, has been released by FCAI researchers.

Amanda AlvarezSeptember 15, 2023Software, Probabilistic AI, Research, Machine Learning

Chat AIs can role-play humans in surveys and pilot studies

Synthetic data from large language models can mimic human responses in interviews and questionnaires, raising the risk of fake responses in crowdsourced research data.

Amanda AlvarezMay 9, 2023Generative AI, Research, Interactive AI, Human-Computer Interaction

Turbo-charging AI: Collaboration with NVIDIA renewed as joint tech center marks three years

NVIDIA AI Technology Center (NVAITC) Finland has accelerated research, training and computing power in over a dozen projects where high-performance computing meets AI.

Impact storyAmanda AlvarezMay 4, 2023NVAITC, Collaboration, Research, Software

Scientists unravel the effects of new medication for advanced melanoma with the help of AI

A completely new treatment option affects the immune system in patients with advanced melanoma.

Amanda AlvarezMarch 31, 2023Research, Collaboration, Health, Machine Learning

Next-gen AI designers won’t crush human creativity

Truly helpful AI systems improve designs while keeping humans in the loop.

ELLISAmanda AlvarezMarch 6, 2023Machine Learning, Human-Computer Interaction, Research, Creativity

Artificial intelligence learns to visualize extensive datasets

A new algorithm developed at FCAI can visualize and cluster large datasets in a way that matches what people prefer.

Amanda AlvarezFebruary 1, 2023Research, Interactive AI

New discoveries with statistical inference

FCAI postdoc Ulpu Remes develops ELFI, the open-source software for likelihood-free inference.

rc23Mia PajuJanuary 12, 2023Humans of FCAI, Research, Software, Probabilistic AI

The smallest robotic arm you can imagine is controlled by artificial intelligence

Researchers used deep reinforcement learning to steer atoms into a lattice shape, with a view to building new materials or nanodevices.

Amanda AlvarezDecember 7, 2022Machine Learning, Research

The Alan Turing Institute and FCAI developing Virtual Laboratories and more in wide-ranging collaboration

The Alan Turing Institute and the Finnish Centre for Artificial Intelligence have established an ambitious partnership

Mia PajuNovember 15, 2022Collaboration, Research, Virtual Laboratory

Bitville and FCAI collaborate to make learning easier with AI

Digital learning company Bitville is partnering with FCAI to develop AI methods to make learning easier.

win-winMia PajuSeptember 21, 2022Collaboration, Research, Industry and Society, Education

Machine learning meets medicine in the fight against superbugs

Modeling how MRSA bacteria spread on the body can enhance treatments

Amanda AlvarezAugust 15, 2022Health, Machine Learning, Research

VILMA Centre of Excellence develops AI methods for modelling the atmosphere

Understanding the formation of atmospheric aerosols is important, since these particles help cool the climate, but also increase mortality due to poor air quality.

Mia PajuAugust 15, 2022Virtual Laboratory, Research, Interactive AI, Sustainability