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AIML Special Presentation: Continuum Robots for Minimally Invasive Surgery: Smaller, Softer, and Smarter
- Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2025, 11:30 am - 12:30 pm
- Location: AIML
Surgical robots have achieved commercial success and are experiencing rapid global growth. The robotics community continues to push the boundaries of safety, ease of use, and minimally invasive techniques in surgical robots. Continuum robots, with their intrinsic flexibility and miniature sizes, are emerging as ideal candidates for the next generation of minimally invasive surgical systems. Their development, however, presents three major challenges: design and manufacturing, human-robot interaction, and intelligent perception. In this talk, Dr Liao Wu will share his efforts to overcome these challenges, focusing on advancements that make surgical continuum robots smaller, softer, and smarter.
AI on the Ground: The Great Chatbot Debate Watch Party
- Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2025, 12:30 pm - 2:30 pm
- Location: AIML
Chatbots based on large language models (LLMs), like ChatGPT, answer sophisticated questions, pass professional exams, analyze texts, generate everything from poems to computer programs, and more. But is there genuine understanding behind what LLMs can do? Do they really understand our world? Or, are they a triumph of mathematics and masses of data and calculations simulating true understanding?
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AIML Research Seminar: The Search for LLM-Based Disinformation
- Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2025, 11:00 am - 11:30 am
- Location: AIML
Disinformation is one of the biggest threats to social progress and stability. Lies and post-truths radicalize decision-making and pervert knowledge. Accordingly, there has been an explosion of research seeking to detect disinformation in online content. Here, the frontier of disinformation detection research leverages a variety of ML techniques. Yet, a recent meta-analysis discovered existing techniques are only 79% accurate. More problematic is existing techniques only work against generated artifacts. Meaning, articles, tweets, and Reddit posts are in the wild before detection occurs. We need a technique to detect potential disinformation in the ML models before content gets loose. Fortunately, work is underway attempting to construct such a technique. This presentation will bring you up to speed on misinformation concepts. We will cover existing machine learning detection methods. The feature will be a progress snapshot of working at the model level. Keep in mind this is not only about fake news. No. Detecting misinformation is about preserving all human knowledge.
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AIML Special Presentation: ARC Discovery Project on Hyperspectral Video Tracking
- Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2025, 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
- Location: AIML
Video tracking is a fundamental AI technology with more than 100 billion dollars market values. Traditional tracking models based on colour or grayscale videos have inherent limitations in detecting and tracking objects. Focused on challenging scenarios faced by conventional camera systems, this research in the past five years harnesses the capability of hyperspectral video cameras in material identification within and beyond the visible spectrum to capture and model the spectral, spatial, and temporal information for object tracking. This talk gives an overview of hyperspectral imaging technology and how it is used to develop hyperspectral tracking methods, which form the foundation of a recently funded ARC Discovery Project.
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CAR CATALYST Information Session
- Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2025
- Location: AIML building
AIML has joined forces with deep tech, venture capitalist firm Main Sequence as its preferred partner to co-lead the Centre for Augmented Reasoning’s (CAR) Catalyst Program. This innovative initiative aims to significantly boost participants by nurturing their entrepreneurial goals and accelerating their path from product development to market entry.
