News — FCAI

Season’s Greetings 2023 from FCAI

FCAI wants to attract the best talent to Europe and Finland to bolster artificial intelligence competency.

ELLISAmanda AlvarezDecember 12, 2023ELLIS, Announcements

Cooperation underlies AI advances in Finland, and a new gift is boosting national capacity even further

The Technology Industries of Finland donation supports the common goal of gaining institute status for Finland in the ELLIS network.

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

Can we anticipate use of social and health care services with machine learning?

The MAITE project studied how artificial intelligence could be used to predict the multidisciplinary service use of the elderly.

Amanda AlvarezNovember 3, 2023Health, Healthcare, Collaboration, Machine Learning, Science

Bo Zhao believes machine learning systems will become like dictionaries – everyday tools we all use to solve problems

Zhao joined the Aalto University Department of Computer Science as Assistant Professor in early September.

Amanda AlvarezOctober 12, 2023Interview, Machine Learning

ELLIS Distinguished Lectures bring outstanding AI researchers to greater Helsinki

Students can earn credits by attending the seminar series.

ELLISAmanda AlvarezSeptember 27, 2023Announcements, Education, Machine Learning, ELLIS

New collaboration targets the mine-to-market value chain

FCAI joins Metso and other partners in advancing productivity and sustainability in mining with artificial intelligence.

Economic impactAmanda AlvarezSeptember 18, 2023Collaboration, Industry and Society, Sustainability

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

ELLIS Doctoral Symposium 2023: Top European AI minds convene in Finland

The symposium is the highlight of the year in the ELLIS PhD Program.

ELLISAmanda AlvarezSeptember 7, 2023Events, Collaboration, ELLIS

Does ChatGPT make us lazy?

FCAI’s Ethics Advisory Board hosted a discussion on using ChatGPT for research.

Amanda AlvarezSeptember 6, 2023Generative AI, Events, Ethics, Human-Computer Interaction, Language, Society, Creativity

We are hiring – several positions for postdocs, research fellows and PhD students

The deadline for applications is October 1, 2023.

Kaisa PekkalaSeptember 4, 2023

Next steps for the EU’s AI Act: towards enabling regulation

The EU’s AI Act should provide technology-neutral regulation and support for R&D, say FCAI researchers

Amanda AlvarezAugust 30, 2023Society and Politics, Researcher's Comment

“FCAI gave me the freedom to shape my career”

For Kevin Luck, a postdoc at FCAI was an important step to a faculty position.

rc23Amanda AlvarezAugust 15, 2023Humans of FCAI, Interview, Collaboration

Prof. Patrick Rinke: making sustainable materials with AI

Patrick Rinke’s pioneering expertise in finding sustainable and climate-friendly materials with machine learning methodology has arguably never been more in demand.

Amanda AlvarezJune 8, 2023Humans of FCAI, Virtual Laboratory, Sustainability, Interview, Science

Many paths to learning about AI: continuing education, online and degree programs

FCAI is bringing artificial intelligence within everyone’s reach. Here are three ways to learn more about AI.

Amanda AlvarezJune 2, 2023Education

Elements of AI has introduced one million people to the basics of artificial intelligence

One million people from 170 different countries have learned the basics of AI through Elements of AI, a free MOOC from FCAI, the University of Helsinki and MinnaLearn.

Impact storyAmanda AlvarezMay 23, 2023Education, Announcements, Society

Biosignals reveal where and how you concentrate best

A machine learning model developed at VTT can be used to evaluate concentration, measured via smart devices.

Amanda AlvarezMay 15, 2023Machine Learning, Education, Neural Networks

AI through the lens of sustainability in logistics and supply chains

A recent FCAI Industry and Society webinar discussed sustainability, the role of AI, and data in supply chains.

ISP eventAmanda AlvarezMay 11, 2023Sustainability, Industry and Society, Economy

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