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How to make AI systems learn better
Artificial intelligence systems are smart. They can recognize patterns better than humans, for example. Yet humans are still very much needed. How can you better steer those AI systems? LIACS lecturer Jan van Rijn wrote a book about this together with a number of colleagues. We asked him a few quest…
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Hollywood strike: Is AI really a threat to actors?
Better pay and new agreements with streaming platforms: the actors’ strike that brought Hollywood to a standstill a few days ago is mainly about money. But there is something else that film actors are worried about: the increasing use of Artificial Intelligence. Is this fear justified?
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‘Nice tool but what are we supposed to do with it?’
Public agencies are keen to use new technology such as AI to speed up their primary processes. But the internal organisation is often a major stumbling block. SAILS researcher Friso Selten conducts research at the interface between data science and public administration.
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New professor Suzan Verberne aims to bring large language models and search engines closer together
Suzan Verberne has been appointed professor of Natural Language Processing at the Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science (LIACS) from 1 October. Verberne has been at LIACS since 2017 as group leader of the Text Mining and Retrieval group.
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Artificial intelligence as the co-pilot for drug discovery
There are more molecules that could conceivably be candidate drugs than there are stars in the universe. How can we ever efficiently identify those molecules? Professor of AI and Medicinal Chemistry, Gerard van Westen: ‘I’m going to use artificial intelligence as the co-pilot to make an automated search.’…
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Ramira van der Meulen
Science
a.van.der.meulen@liacs.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Tom Kouwenhoven wants to develop a bridge between AI and humans
It is a familiar phenomenon: you ask the assistant on your phone to call your mother, but it calls a friend instead. Tom Kouwenhoven, PhD student in the SAILS programme, investigates how humans and Artificial Intelligence (AI) can better communicate with each other, so that these kinds of situations…
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Nele Mentens
Science
n.mentens@liacs.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 4799
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YAL AI Winter Festival
Festival
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‘Scientists should be careful when interpreting results of AI models’
Anthropologist Rodrigo Ochigame studies how AI is changing the practice of scientific research. From astrophysics to mathematics to climate science, they find that the adoption of new AI models is raising questions about what counts as reliable scientific evidence.
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Fast-Tracking Climate Resilience with AI: a Stakeholder Discussion
Panel discussion
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Jan van Rijn
Science
j.n.van.rijn@liacs.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 7492
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Search the scholarly literature more efficiently with AI
Library, Research
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Embedded System Software Engineer (Research and Education support) (0.8-1.0fte)
Science, Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science (LIACS)
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Leiden AI Week
Leidse AI-Week
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AI versus the fire
Festival
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Medical Delta AI for Computational Life Sciences
The fact that scientists are increasingly better able to access molecular cell and tissue data also brings with it a new challenge: how can scientists find the information they need for research among the vast amount of data available?
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Katy Wolstencroft
Science
k.j.wolstencroft@liacs.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 8926
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Customer-friendly Dutch chatbots
Ever heard of conversational artificial intelligence (AI)? Anyone who has ever interacted with Siri or Alexa is familiar with this technology. We use conversational AI every day these days and it is becoming increasingly important in service and sales. A consortium of Dutch scientists and companies…
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Ludo Block
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
l.block@fgga.leidenuniv.nl | +31 70 800 9506
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Roy de Kleijn
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
kleijnrde@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 3915
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Jacq Meulman
Science
j.j.meulman@math.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Jan van Staalduinen
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
j.h.van.staalduinen@law.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 5139
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Suzan Verberne
Science
s.verberne@liacs.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 7043
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Peter Stevenhagen
Science
psh@math.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 7125
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Lex Zardiashvili
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
a.zardiashvili@law.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Friso Selten
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
f.j.selten@fgga.leidenuniv.nl | +31 70 800 9400
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Somayeh Djafari
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
somie.djafari@gmail.com | +31 71 527 5200
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Vivi Rottschäfer
Science
vivi@math.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 7113
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Sander Hille
Science
shille@math.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 7109
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Paul Abels
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
p.h.a.m.abels@fgga.leidenuniv.nl | +31 70 800 9500
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AI Journal prominent paper award winners
Professor of Machine learning Holger Hoos together with Frank Hutter, Lin Xu and Kevin Leyton-Brown won the prestigious Artificial Intelligence Journal (AIJ) Prominent Paper Award of this year.
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Giliam de Valk
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
g.g.de.valk@fgga.leidenuniv.nl | +31 70 800 9028
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Frans Rodenburg
Science
f.j.rodenburg@biology.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Free course on AI and Ethics: ‘Every citizen should know more about this’
The free AI and Ethics course (in Dutch) is available online to anyone who wants to find out more about the ethical implications of artificial intelligence. One of the eight experts featured in the course is Professor Reijer Passchier. ‘Artificial Intelligence is spreading so fast and has such an impact…
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Andreas Häuselmann
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
a.n.hauselmann@law.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 5200
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Alies Jansen
Faculty of Humanities
e.jansen@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 1255
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Tom Kouwenhoven
Science
t.kouwenhoven@liacs.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 4799
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Online exhibition: The Space Between (AI and games)
Exhibition
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CSC Joint PhD programme on Artifical Intelligence and Bioscience between Leiden University and Xi’an Jiatong University
PhD
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Ben de Jong
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
b.m.de.jong@fgga.leidenuniv.nl | +31 70 800 9506
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Leiden researchers work on exhibition about growth addiction
Museum De Lakenhal issued an open call for creative solutions to the problem of growth addiction. From over 500 submissions, they selected 15 artworks for the exhibition 'If things grow wrong'. These include the creations of Leiden researchers Peter van der Putten and Evert Jan van Leeuwen.
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Henning Lahmann
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
h.c.lahmann@law.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 8838
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Francien Dechesne
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
f.dechesne@law.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 7608
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Fulco Scherjon
Faculteit Archeologie
f.scherjon@arch.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Mario van der Stelt
Science
m.van.der.stelt@chem.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 4768
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Mohammed Raiz Shaffique
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
m.r.shaffique@law.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Reijer Passchier
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
r.passchier@law.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Jeroen Codee
Science
jcodee@chem.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 5037
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Cyra Akila Choudhury
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
c.choudhury@law.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 8838