Artificial intelligence, the scare of many a movie, has suddenly become a reality in our lives; media stories about self-driving cars and cameras on the streets that recognize you are found in abundance. The current explosion in AI comes from machine learning techniques like convolutional neural networks and reinforcement learning, but is this all there is to artificial intelligence?

At this point in time AI is considered a success, once again seen as a technology with enormous growth potential. Is there limit to growth? In today's increasingly data-rich society a staggering 10 exabytes are created every day and emerging technologies like the Internet of things (IoT) will substantially increase the data growth rate, and […]

  Abstract This talk aims to introduce by examples the current challenges and trends of Artificial Intelligence facing the broad world of video games. After showing the remarkably simple, yet effective artificial intelligence of Pacman's ghosts, we get back to modern times in which neural networks claim to be the hands down winners in the […]

Abstract In the last decade, there has been an explosion of papers on the combination of the language and vision modalities.  In this tutorial, we will first aim to understand why this is happening, what has made the investigation possible, and where do we stand now. We will see that research has been mostly been driven […]

  Abstract In this talk, Parviainen will give an overview of Bayesian networks: what are they, what can be done with them and where do they come from? They were invented in the 1980s, mainly as a result of research by Judea Pearl. Bayesian networks are probabilistic graphical models that represent relations between random variables. […]

Abstract Over the past 10-15 years we have witnessed a paradigm shift in computer science, brought about by the availability of large scale amounts of data. As a result of this paradigm shift new opportunities have arisen, allowing us to study the dynamics of a variety of phenomena, such as social networks, people’s mobility, shopping […]

Notice: This particular AI Agora event will NOT be taking place at Media City Bergen. This time, the venue for the event is the Social Science Building, Fosswinckelsgt. 6. Please see details below. Abstract People communicate most often by telling stories based on their experience of reality. In this process, three fundamental ingredients need to […]

Abstract The talk introduces the problem of engineering machine ethics and ethical governors in general, and focuses on a recent contribution to this area: the problem of who decides what is right or wrong for a machine. An autonomous system is constructed by a manufacturer, operates in a society subject to norms and laws, and […]