This year, we celebrate 7 years of collaboration with the VUB AVRG group in the mechanics department. Together, we completed several R&D projects in which AI techniques were employed to provide predictive maintenance and health-aware control of wind turbines. One of the successes of our collaboration is the creation of a world-class simulator based on...Read More

Are you a computer scientist with an interest in psychology? Do you want to advance the state-of-the-art in Artificial Intelligence while also improving our understanding of the human brain? Does interdisciplinary research spark your interest? The Artificial Intelligence Lab at VUB university is looking for an enthusiastic and motivated PhD-student to work on an interdisciplinary...Read More

Tim Brys published this article at Knack. “U zult zoals God zijn,” beloofde de slang aan Eva. “Laat ons een toren maken die tot de hemel reikt,” besloten de Babelse bouwers. “Ik ben god!” riep farao in de film Exodus: Gods and Kings. Deze verhalen uit de Joodse traditie belichten een diep menselijk verlangen: iets in...Read More

Tim Brys published this article in NRC. Wat betekent de groeiende kracht van AI voor uw vakgebied, was de vraag. Maar nu is mijn vakgebied… de AI! Moet ik nu, op een meta-niveau, AI toepassen op de ontwikkeling van AI? Volgens sommigen zou dat uitmonden in artificial superintelligence: een goddelijke AI die ofwel de wereld zal...Read More

Tim Brys published this article in De Standaard. Technologiebedrijven dreigen de creatieve sector te plunderen. Volgens een studie in opdracht van auteursrechtenvereniging Cisac mogen muzikanten en audiovisuele artiesten tegen 2028 rekenen op een inkomstenverlies tussen de 21 en 24 procent (DS 4/12). Beelden, muziek, stemmen en ondertitels in videospellen, films, tv-series en stockbibliotheken zullen steeds meer gegenereerd...Read More

Doctoral researcher Stijn Ally offered an AI workshop at the Day of Science in Hoeilaart on the 24th of November. Participants learned to train an image recognition model and to put it to use it in a computer game they developed with Scratch. Children, parents and grandparents were very enthused by their encounter with AI....Read More

AI-Lab members Senne Deproost, Denis Steckelmacher and Ann Nowe recently won the BNAIC 2024 Best paper award!Their paper introduces a novel method to generate programs from a Deep Reinforcement Learning policy. By exploiting gradients from the critic value network, the algorithm steers a genetic programming loop towards value-maximizing programs with domain-specific operators.Read the paper here!Read More

Doctoral researcher Stijn Ally received the 𝘽𝙚𝙨𝙩 𝙋𝙧𝙚𝙨𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝘼𝙬𝙖𝙧𝙙 from the North American Wind Energy Academy from among over 150 presenting researchers at the 2024 NAWEA / Windtech Conference. “This recognition further motivates me to continue advancing my research on AI-driven solutions that accelerate the energy transition,” says Stijn. Check out the work he presented...Read More

Wondering about the role AI can play in the energy sector? On 26 November, VAIA and the Flemish AI Research Programme organize a highway event where AI Lab director Ann Nowé and our close collaborator VUB prof. Jan Helsen will speak about the latest research poised to transform operations in the energy domain. Don’t miss...Read More

In the context of the VUB Willy Calewaert chair of Prof. Dr. Em. Luc Steels, we invite you to the seminar “Grenzen van generatieve AI” on November 8, 2024. Click here to see the full program and to register. Note that the presentations will be in Dutch.Read More