A Norwegian Center for AI?
digitalMediaFutures partner NORA is organising a digital discussion on the allocation of the AI billion. In Norway, there is an ongoing discussion about how to best allocate the 'AI billion.' […]
Call for literature reviews: Nordicom Reviews special issue
Nordicom is inviting authors to submit extended abstracts for a special issue of Nordicom Review focusing on the relationship between media, communication, journalism, and democracy within the Nordic region. The […]
More Room for Language: Investigating the Effect of Retrieval on Language Models
UiO, Room 4118, StyreromThe Language Technology Group (LTG) at University in Oslo is organising weekly RAG seminars. They do research on a number of topics related to Natural Language Processing (NLP), a subfield […]
Launching NB-Whisper
Nasjonalbiblioteket – Store Auditorium Henrik Ibsens gate 110, OsloOur partner, the National Library, invites you to a "launch seminar" for their newest speech-to-text model for Norwegian. They have invited the police, Schibsted, and TV2 to share how they […]
Trends in news use and avoidance
MediaFutures MCB Store læringsrom, Læringslab 3rd floorIn times of a rather negative-angled news landscape, NRK mapped Norwegians' approach to news, and news avoidance, with extra focus on the young readers. With data from NRK's Youth survey, […]
Realizing AIs Potential at the Workplace – Can Copilot Unlock its Opportunities?
Terminushall, Jernbanebakken, 5015 BergenBergen Chamber of Commerce and Industry is hosting a meeting on AI at work. Amongst many others, also MediaFutures Associate Professor Samia Touileb is holding a speech about Limitations and […]
UiB AI #9 Trustworthy AI
Storsalen, Nygårdsgaten 5, første etasje.How do we work with trust in artificial intelligence? Meet our researchers and participate in the next UiB AI seminar! Artificial intelligence today is maybe not yet human-centric, but it […]
Women in AI 2024
Domus Bibliotheca, Karl Johans gate 47, 0162, OsloOn the 8th of March, MediaFutures partner NORA invites to the Women in AI celebration at Domus Bibliotheca, Oslo. The event will also be streamed live. Doors open at 17:30 […]
Media Innovation Xchange. EU Conference on Digital Transformation and Media Innovation
digitalImmerse yourself in the future of European media and join the event in Brussels (or digitally) on March 13-14, 2024, for a conference on the digital transformation and innovation of […]
News personalization with “Curate”
MediaFutures MCB Store læringsrom, Læringslab 3rd floorMediaFutures invites to a seminar on news personalization with Schibsted in MediaFutures headquarter, MCB, 3rd floor. The seminar will also be streamed. The Curate project has been created to enable […]
Mobilisation seminar on AI for trust and sustainability
Storsalen, Nygårdsgaten 5, første etasje.In connection with the upcoming announcement of the AI billion, the Research and Innovation Department at UiB (Forsknings- og innovasjonsavdelingen FIA) invites academic communities researching artificial intelligence to a mobilization […]
CuttingEdgeAI: Open Norwegian language models as common property.
Domus Bibliotheca, Karl Johans gate 47, 0162, OsloEarlier this month, MediaFutures professor Lilja Øvrelid and Erik Velldal released in collaboration with other partners several Norwegian language models openly available and trained on open data. These have now […]