- How AI can help protect bees from dangerous parasites
By Farnaz Sheikhi, University of Calgary and Farhad Maleki, University of Calgary Tiny but mighty, honeybees play a crucial role in our ecosystems, pollinating various plants and crops. They also support the economy. These small producers contribute billions of dollars to Canada’s agriculture industry, making Canada a major honey producer. However, in the winter of
- The Machine Ethics podcast: AI Ethics, Risks and Safety Conference 2025
Hosted by Ben Byford, The Machine Ethics Podcast brings together interviews with academics, authors, business leaders, designers and engineers on the subject of autonomous algorithms, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and technology’s impact on society. DeepDive: AI and the environment This is a special live panel episode we recorded at the AI Ethics, Risks and Safety
- Interview with Aneesh Komanduri: Causality and generative modeling
In this interview series, we’re meeting some of the AAAI/SIGAI Doctoral Consortium participants to find out more about their research. In this latest interview, we hear from Aneesh Komanduri about his research, some of the projects he’s been involved in, future plans, and his experience at the AAAI/SIGAI Doctoral Consortium. Could you tell us a
- AIhub monthly digest: July 2025 – RoboCup round-up, ICML in Vancouver, and leveraging feedback in human-robot interactions
Welcome to our monthly digest, where you can catch up with any AIhub stories you may have missed, peruse the latest news, recap recent events, and more. This month, we take a trip around some of the RoboCup leagues, check in at ICML, learn about the NASA onboard AI research platform, and explore feedback in
- Interview with Yuki Mitsufuji: Text-to-sound generation
Earlier this year, we spoke to Yuki Mitsufuji, Lead Research Scientist at Sony AI, about work concerning different aspects of image generation. Yuki and his team have since extended their work to sound generation, presenting work at ICLR 2025 entitled: SoundCTM: Unifying Score-based and Consistency Models for Full-band Text-to-Sound Generation. We caught up with Yuki
- Open-source Swiss language model to be released this summer
Wes Cockx & Google DeepMind / AI large language models / Licenced by CC-BY 4.0 By Melissa Anchisi and Florian Meyer This summer, EPFL and ETH Zurich will release a large language model (LLM) developed on public infrastructure. Trained on the “Alps” supercomputer at the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS), the new LLM marks a
- Interview with Kate Candon: Leveraging explicit and implicit feedback in human-robot interactions
In this interview series, we’re meeting some of the AAAI/SIGAI Doctoral Consortium participants to find out more about their research. Kate Candon is a PhD student at Yale University interested in understanding how we can create interactive agents that are more effectively able to help people. We spoke to Kate to find out more about
- #RoboCup2025: social media round-up part 2
RoboCup2025 took place from 15-21 July in Salvador, Brazil. The event saw around 3000 participants competing in the various leagues. In our first social media round-up post we saw what the teams got up to during the first couple of days of the event. In this second post, we take a look at the action
- Visualising the digital transformation of work
Yutong Liu & Digit / Digital Nomads Across Time / Licenced by CC-BY 4.0 By Gemma Smith and Jacqueline O’Reilly How are digital technologies and AI changing our working lives? A quick internet search on this topic will usually produce images of smiling, or perplexed, people looking into a computer. Often these people are surrounded
- #ICML2025 social media round-up part 2
The 42nd International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML2025) took place in Vancouver, Canada, from 13-19 July. As well as five invited talks, the programme included oral and poster presentations, affinity events, tutorials, and workshops. Find out what participants got up to during the second half of the event. We'll present our work, "CHAMELEON: A Flexible