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SUMMARY:How Revolutionary is AI? International Digital Futures Network Summer Symposium
DESCRIPTION:Just how revolutionary is the AI revolution? And to what extent will it change the world around us? This year’s International Digital Futures Network Summer Symposium brings together experts in the field from across academia and industry to explore these questions and more over a day of talks\, panels and open discussions. \n\n\n\nCo-hosted by Edinburgh Futures Institute and Bristol Digital Futures Institute\, this year’s event will take place in the Futures Institute’s new home; a beautifully transformed\, historic building which provides a dynamic futures-focused space for learning\, research\, and innovation at the University of Edinburgh. \n\n\n\nSchedule\n\n\n\n09:30Arrival\, tea and coffee  10:00An introduction to the International Digital Futures Institute fromProfessor Marion Thain Director\, Edinburgh Futures Institute and member of the IDFN Steering Group10:10 – 11.10Evolution vs Revolution: How did we get here with AI?Professor Jane Hillston with Steven Connor  11:15 -12:15The 8 Foundational Principles for Genuinely Intelligent (and Useful) AIDr Marcus Weldon with Sandra Woolley12:15  – 13:15Lunch  13:15  – 14.15Generative AI: Distinguishing Hype from HallelujahProfessor Peter Flach with Sanja Milivojevic14:15 – 15:15Panel discussion  15:15 -15:30  Closing remarks\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nSpeaker Biographies\n\n\n\n\n\nProfessor Jane Hillston\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJane Hillston is a Professor of Quantitative Modelling\, Dean of Research Culture and REF\, Interim Co-Director of University of Edinburgh’s Generative AI Laboratory (GAIL)\, and former Head of the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh. In March 2007 she was elected to the fellowship of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and in 2018\, to the membership of the Academia Europaea. She is the recipient of the Suffrage Science Award for Computer Science and the RSE Lord Kelvin Medal. She was elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 2022. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDr Marcus Weldon\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMarcus Weldon is the Emeritus President of Bell Labs\, the world-renowned innovation powerhouse that defined the current digital age.  He has currently helping a wide variety of companies with their AI strategies\, as well as acting as the Contributing Editor for AI for Newsweek magazine with the AI Impact series of interviews with the leading prognosticators\, pioneers and practitioners of AI across the globe. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nProfessor Peter Flach\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPeter Flach has been involved in AI research for four decades. He joined the Department (now School) of Computer Science at the University of Bristol in 1997 and has been Professor of Artificial Intelligence since 2003. An internationally leading scholar in the evaluation and improvement of machine learning models\, he has also published on mining highly structured data\, on knowledge-driven and explainable AI\, and on the methodology of data science. His books include Simply Logical: Intelligent Reasoning by Example (John Wiley\, 1994; interactive online edition\, 2022) and Machine Learning: the Art and Science of Algorithms that Make Sense of Data (Cambridge University Press\, 2012). From 2010 until 2020\, Prof Flach was Editor-in-Chief of the Machine Learning journal. He is a founding board member\, previous President and current Vice-President of the European Association for Data Science. He is a Fellow of the European Lab for Learning and Intelligent Systems and of the European Association for Artificial Intelligence. He was the founding director of the UKRI Centre for Doctoral Training in Interactive Artificial Intelligence\, and currently directs the UKRI AI Centre for Doctoral Training in Practice-Oriented Artificial Intelligence. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis event is co-hosted by Edinburgh Futures Institute and Bristol Digital Futures Institute.
URL:https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/how-revolutionary-is-ai-international-digital-futures-network-summer-symposium/
LOCATION:Edinburgh Futures Institute\, Level 0 Event Space\, 1 Lauriston Place\, Edinburgh\, EH3 9EF\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Designing Data and Innovation Futures to Wear
DESCRIPTION:Join us to explore the future of sustainable technology through design\, engineering\, and finance. \n\n\n\nEdinburgh Futures Institute introduces\, ‘Designing Data and Innovation Futures to Wear’ a symposium to learn from and engage with leading academics and innovators across interconnected industries of robotics\, data\, design and healthcare on how they are harnessing technology to create our future\, sustainable world. We will explore the possibilities that novel\, wearable technologies and associated data provide to achieve a sustainable\, circular future. Looking beyond hype\, we will adopt a regenerative\, holistic and design led approach to innovation in a multidisciplinary setting with an entrepreneurial mindset. \n\n\n\nThe aim of this event is to create the conditions for experimental dialogue across robotics\, data\, design\, and healthcare\, collaborating to inform a radically different approach to research and innovation at Edinburgh Futures Institute. The day will include a series of keynote speakers\, a future thinking workshop\, panel discussions and networking opportunities which aim to prompt new research and innovation opportunities at the intersection of material\, data-science\, business\, engineering\, and health. Look forward to a human and system centred explorative day of inspiration\, possibility\, and convergence. \n\n\n\nAgenda\n\n\n\n\n9.30am – Welcome and Session 1 – Data Design: Environmental data and the body\n\n\n\n11am – Coffee break\n\n\n\n11:30 – Session 2 – Green finance: Mining Materials\, Green Data and Finance\n\n\n\n1pm – Lunch\n\n\n\n2pm – Session 3 – Robotics and Health: Novel Narratives\n\n\n\n3.30pm – Coffee break\n\n\n\n4.30pm – Event close\, reflection and thanks\n\n\n\n4.40pm – Drinks Reception until 6pm\n\n\n\n\nConfirmed speakers to be announced soon!
URL:https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/designing-data-and-innovation-futures-to-wear/
LOCATION:Room 2.55\, Edinburgh Futures Institute\, 1 Lauriston Place\, Edinburgh\, EH3 9EF
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SUMMARY:AI as the Broken Machine
DESCRIPTION:AI Ethics & Society is excited to announce the 2024 symposium ‘AI as the Broken Machine’\, sponsored by The Edinburgh Futures Institute\, the Algorithmic Societies research group at Durham University\, and the Centre for Technomoral Futures. \n\n\n\nThe symposium will explore brokenness\, care\, and repair in the age of AI\, offering perspectives on the inclusion of marginalised epistemologies and expertise\, modes of refusal and methods to critically interrogate emerging technologies such as generative AI. \n\n\n\nOur three panels address themes of margins\, data patchwork and justice; error\, uncertainty and categorisation; and care\, repair and craft. \n\n\n\nInvited Keynote Speaker: Prof. Louise Amoore (Durham University) \n\n\n\nInvited panellists include: Alex Taylor (University of Edinburgh)\, Shannon Vallor (University of Edinburgh)\, Anne Lee Steele (Alan Turing Institute)\, Alex Campolo (Durham University)\, Cindy Lin (Pennsylvania State University)\, Ben Jacobsen (Durham University)\,Natassa Philimonos (University of Edinburgh)\, Morgan Currie (University of Edinburgh)\, and Srravya Chandhiramowuli (University of Edinburgh). \n\n\n\nThe symposium is free to attend and will include a catered lunch\, tea\, coffee and pastries.
URL:https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/ai-as-the-broken-machine/
LOCATION:Playfair Library Hall\, Old College\, South Bridge\, Edinburgh\, Edinburgh\, EH8 9YL\, United Kingdom
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