by Trung Nguyen | May 10, 2024 | News
We are excited to share highlights from the recent “Artificial Intelligence Researchers Association Annual Conference” hosted at the University of Auckland. The conference, which brings together AI researchers from across New Zealand, served as a valuable...
by Trung Nguyen | Apr 17, 2024 | News
Professor Michael Witbrock and Dr. Vithya Yogarajan recently participated in the AI Health Workshop and Symposium hosted by the Office of the Prime Minister’s Chief Science Advisor. They joined esteemed colleagues such as Sir Ashley Bloomfield, Professor Jim Warren,...
by Trung Nguyen | Apr 10, 2024 | News, Research
This study explores whether English language models (LLMs) contain biases towards specific regions, and how these biases affect their performance in tasks like Natural Language Processing (NLP). By looking into subtle differences in word meanings across regions,...
by Trung Nguyen | Mar 6, 2024 | News, Research
Supervised by Professor Gill Dobbie, Dr Vithya Yogarajan, and Professor John Windsor (Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, the University of Auckland), this project seeks to leverage machine learning for healthcare. Title: Machine Learning to Predict Severe Acute...
by Trung Nguyen | Mar 1, 2024 | Materials, News, Research
Under the supervision of Professor Gill Dobbie and Dr Vithya Yogarajan, this research project by Kejun Dai reviews frameworks for evaluating bias in artificial intelligence models. Situated within the broader “Ethical Computing” initiative led by Professor...
by Trung Nguyen | Dec 19, 2023 | Materials, News
Image: A painting of a futuristic nurse in rural New Zealand created using Stable Diffusion on huggingface.co This recent report on AI and healthcare is from the Office of the Prime Minister’s Chief Science Advisor. FOREWORD: This report was requested by Prime...
by Trung Nguyen | Dec 15, 2023 | News
Our members, Gill and Vithya, were recently Program Committee Co-Chairs for the 25th International Conference on Information Integration and Web Intelligence (iiWAS2023). iiWAS 2023 was held in Bali, Indonesia, from 4th to 6th December 2023. The 25th International...
by Trung Nguyen | Dec 13, 2023 | News, Opportunities
Gill chaired a panel at AusDM 2023 (11 – 13 Dec) exploring issues around Responsible Al. The panelists were Dr. Kevin Ross (Orion Health), Gabriela Mazorra de Cos (Xero), Dr. Kin Lung (KL) Chan (Callaghan Innovation) and Dr. Daniel Wilson (University of...
by Trung Nguyen | Nov 29, 2023 | Materials, News, Research
Gill delivered a presentation at the ARC Training Centre in Data Analytics for Resources and Environments (DARE), The University of Sydney, where she shared insights from her research focused on quantifying bias in language models with the ultimate goal of debiasing....
by Trung Nguyen | Nov 22, 2023 | Materials, News
Following our recent post, the group of “Teaching materials for AI Ethics” has successfully presented at the Capstone event (photo above). Project description: This year, the team EthicAI developed a resource with real-world use cases of the latest AI...
