We are developers: AI Congress Hofburg Vienna

From December 4 to 5, 2018 the WeAreDevelopers AI Congress Vienna will focus on human-machine interactions and will bring together two sides: Academy and Industry. The main questions tackled at this conference include: Can we trust computer decisions? How to deal with decisions bias? The Artificial Intelligence Congress emphasizes the importance of the interaction between human and computer. From trusting …

US military is funding an effort to catch deepfakes and AI trickery

A very interesting article was released on May, 23, 2018 by Will KNIGHT in the MIT Technology Review: The US Army is funding a project aiming to determine “deepreals” from “deepfakes”, i.e. to answer the question if a given video or audio is real or faked. Please read this very interesting and relevant article here: https://www.technologyreview.com/s/611146/the-us-military-is-funding-an-effort-to-catch-deepfakes-and-other-ai-trickery And please watch this …

CfP IFIP CD-MAKE-exAI – Workshop on explainable AI in Hamburg, August 27-30, 2018

I am involved in the organization of a workshop on explainable AI at the University of Hamburg, August, 27-30, 2018 Here the call for papers – please distribute as you like: — call for papers — MAKE-Explainable AI (MAKE – eXAI) IFIP CD-MAKE 2018 Workshop on explainable Artificial Intelligence Papers due to April, 1, 2018; Deadline (hard) for Springer LNCS: …

Explainability in Context – The Courts

A very interesting debate by Julius ADEBAYO (FastForward Labs), Paul RIFELJ (Wisconsin Public Defenders) and Andrea ROTH (UC Berkely Law), which was moderated by Amanda LEVENDOWSKI (NYU School of Law) on April, 27, 2017 at the Information Law Institute at the New York School of Law.