Gods and Robots In this episode of the podcast we shake things up! Neil is on the guest side of the table with his partner Rabbi Laura Janner-Klausner to discuss their upcoming project Gods and Robots. Katherine is joined on the host side by friend of the show professor Michael Littman. See... See More Episodes arXiv Whitepapers Real or Robotic? Assessing Whether LLMs Accurately Simulate Qualities of Human Responses in Dialogue Studying and building datasets for dialogue tasks is both expensive and time-consuming due to the need to recruit, train, and collect data from study participants. In response, much recent work has sought to use large language models (LLMs) to simulate both human-human and human-LLM interactions, as... Towards Fairer Health Recommendations: finding informative unbiased samples via Word Sense Disambiguation There have been growing concerns around high-stake applications that rely on models trained with biased data, which consequently produce biased predictions, often harming the most vulnerable. In particular, biased medical data could cause health-related applications and recommender systems to create... Human-Centered AI Applications for Canada's Immigration Settlement Sector While AI has been frequently applied in the context of immigration, most of these applications focus on selection and screening, which primarily serve to empower states and authorities, raising concerns due to their understudied reliability and high impact on immigrants' lives. In contrast, this... More featured content News Articles Can AI talk us out of conspiracy theory rabbit holes? What is ‘model collapse’? An expert explains the rumours about an impending AI doom Stay in the loop. Subscribe to our newsletter for a weekly update on the latest podcast, news, events, and jobs postings. E-mail Leave this field blank Some clinicians are using AI to write health records. What do you need to know? AI used by police cannot tell Black people apart and other reasons Canada’s AI laws need urgent attention From thoughts to words: How AI deciphers neural signals to help a man with ALS speak CAPTCHAs: The struggle to tell real humans from fake Data centres are guzzling up too much electricity. Can we make them more efficient? Paris Olympics 2024: faster, higher, stronger – and more data-driven AI tutors could be coming to the classroom – but who taught the tutor, and should you trust them? AI mass surveillance at Paris Olympics – a legal scholar on the security boon and privacy nightmare More news