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AI Challenge: Students demonstration Event

Submitted on 7 May 2019

On May 22 the Artificial Intelligence Lab will organise the AI Challenge demonstration Event.

Starting at 16:00, a one-hour tour will be followed by a reception. The perfect opportunity to meet the students, discover their work, exchange & inspire!

Luc Steels talks about the impact of AI in De Standaard podcast "Bits & Atomen"

Submitted on 25 April 2019

On April 17th, AI Lab professor Luc Steels was interviewed for the "Bits & Atomen" podcast of Belgian newspaper De Standaard. Are smart machines also becoming creative? And how should we feel about this as humans? These and other questions are extensively discussed by Luc in the podcast.

More info: http://www.standaard.be/cnt/dmf20190416_04333844 .

Technopolitics: Can AI save the climate?

Submitted on 20 March 2019

On March 26th, AI Lab student Elias Fernández will give a presentation during the most recent edition of Technopolitics. He will show how scenarios of collective-risk and uncertainty like the anthropogenic influence in the climate change affect human behavior.

More info on: https://www.facebook.com/events/2283392835270445/ .

Launch of the AI 4 Belgium Initiative

Submitted on 18 March 2019

"With Artificial Intelligence, we can improve our lives"

AI 4 Belgium Coalition proposes AI strategy at the request of Alexander De Croo and Philippe De Backer

More info on: http://www.ai4belgium.be.

AI, Creativity & Art in the Digital Spring

Submitted on 18 March 2019

How can AI be creative? Find out at the AI, Creativity & Art event organized by VUB, ULB and Gluon on Thursday 21 March at 17h. Featured are three world-renowned speakers, art exhibitions and demos of the AI Lab.

More info on: https://www.vub.ac.be/events/2019/ai-creativity-art-in-the-digital-spring.

Interview Luc Steels on radio station Klara

Submitted on 11 March 2019

On Sunday March 10th, Prof. Em. Luc Steels of the AI Lab gave an interview on radio station Klara about AI and its role in today's world of fear and misunderstandings.

Listen to it here:

https://klara.be/pat-donnez-praat-met-prof-artificiele-intelligentie-en-...

Homo Roboticus event

Submitted on 7 February 2019

On February 7, VUB is launching the book "Homo Roboticus" about the impact of robotics and AI on today's society. The event, which takes place in opera house De Munt in Brussels. is concluded with the performance of the opera "Fausto", a story about a world where humanity is threatened by evil intelligent robots, written by founder of the AI Lab Luc Steels.

More information on http://homo-roboticus.be.

Post-doctoral position in Computational Linguistics

Submitted on 13 December 2018
vacancy

We are looking to hire a post-doctoral researcher (100%) to join the research group on Evolutionary and Hybrid AI (https://know.ai.vub.ac.be) to work on an ongoing 4-year Horizon 2020 project.

The project, ODYCCEUS (https://www.odycceus.eu), focuses on capturing information circulating on social media and online discussion fora to better understand and analyse a number of problems that our contemporary society is facing today such as immigration, climate change and national identity.

AI Lab alumnus Pattie Maes wins Innovator Prize 2018

Submitted on 15 November 2018

On November 14th, Pattie Maes, head of the Fluid Interfaces group at MIT's Media Lab and alumnus of the VUB Artificial Intelligence Lab, was awarded the INSEAD Innovator Prize 2018 for her pioneering role in artificial intelligence and human-computer interaction.

The AI Lab was there to congratulate Pattie in person and to show its latest cutting-edge research.

Best student paper award at ICTAI 2018

Submitted on 13 November 2018

Felipe Gomez, Pieter Libin and Timothy Verstraeten of the VUB AI Lab won the best student award at the ICTAI conference for their new deep learning method for 3D point segmentation. Congratulations!

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