What does it mean for machines to surpass our intelligence? What do freedom, creativity and empathy signify in the era of artificial intelligence? How does AI change our society and our view of ourselves? AI Lab postdoc Tim Brys, together with UAntwerpen philosopher François Levrau, deals with these and other questions in the book En...Read More

Wilem Röpke recently obtained his PhD with the thesis Thinking in Trade-Offs: Training Agents to Balance Conflicting Objectives under Uncertainty. While life constantly requires us to trade-off multiple goals – speed vs safety, cost vs quality, time vs money – many AI algorithms are built to optimise a single objective. In his work, Röpke showed...Read More

In the wake of his Calewaert chair, Luc Steels published a book on the history of AI, together with Ann Dooms and Remi van Trijp. There are still copies available, so in case you are interested in obtaining one, please contact Ann Dooms. However, a PDF is also available for free. From the back cover:The...Read More

Prof. Tom Lenaerts and his colleagues, in the first place Inês Terrucha, recently published an experimental study on how delegation to AI/agents may affect outcomes in a social dilemma in the prestigious PNAS journal. Read more in Dutch here, or in English here.Read More

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

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