News — FCAI

Researchers develop a new way to instruct dance in virtual reality

The new virtual reality technique makes it easier to join a dance routine without first having to learn choreography.

Amanda AlvarezApril 30, 2024Human-Computer Interaction, Virtual Reality

Researchers investigate how AI could better understand humans

FCAI Antti Oulasvirta has received a EUR 2.5 million Advanced Grant from the European Research Council (ERC) for the study of user models.

rc25Amanda AlvarezApril 19, 2024Announcements, Human-Computer Interaction, Interactive AI

Advances in AI models simulating human behavior

A new typing model simulates the typing process instead of just predicting words.

Amanda AlvarezApril 18, 2024Human-Computer Interaction, Interactive AI

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

Bridge program at AAAI focused on collaborative AI and modelling of humans

AAAI workshop connected researchers to answer the question: How can humans and AI systems best work together to solve problems?

ELLISAmanda AlvarezMarch 13, 2024Collaboration, Events, ELLIS, Human-Computer Interaction, Machine Learning

Applications are now open for the new Finnish doctoral program in AI

The joint call for doctoral researchers is now open at fcai.fi/doctoral-program until April 2, 2024.

Amanda AlvarezMarch 12, 2024

AI-powered personalized medicine is on the horizon

People have to be in the loop when machine learning is adapted for medical use, says FCAI’s doctoral researcher Sophie Wharrie.

rc25Amanda AlvarezMarch 4, 2024Health, Collaboration, Machine Learning, Healthcare

New Finnish doctoral program in AI launching in 2024

A national consortium across 10 universities will educate 100 new PhDs in artificial intelligence research.

Amanda AlvarezFebruary 9, 2024Announcements, Education, ELLIS

AI and elections: 3 things to know in a mega-election year

From algorithms amplifying political messages on social media to AI-generated deepfakes, there’s plenty to look out for, says University of Helsinki sociologist Aleksi Knuutila.

Amanda AlvarezFebruary 6, 2024Society and Politics, Ethics

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

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