News

Is your AI application a beacon of innovation? Nominations are now open for the Dutch Applied AI Award! This year marks the fifth anniversary of the award, presented at the annual Computable Awards. The Centre of Expertise Applied AI at the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences, alongside ICT platform Computable and the podcast De Dataloog, is calling for entries that showcase practical and innovative uses of artificial intelligence.  

In a striking development that underscores the relentless march of technological advancement, Bird, formerly known as Messagebird, an Amsterdam-based tech powerhouse, has recently made headlines by laying off 20 percent of its workforce. This bold move, affecting 90 of its 450 employees, was announced by the company's CEO, Robert Vis, citing automation and artificial intelligence (AI) as the driving forces enabling the company to achieve more with fewer people.

Deloitte is taking a groundbreaking step by conducting all audits in the Netherlands with artificial intelligence (AI) next year. This innovative move highlights the rapid pace at which AI is transforming the accounting sector. According to Gera Hamer, head of the accounting division at Deloitte Netherlands, the integration of AI, such as their generative AI model Headstart, offers significant benefits. This model, based in part on ChatGPT, is designed to assist accountants in auditing against accounting rules and identifying missing elements. Deloitte emphasizes that this AI usage is carefully embedded within the frameworks of responsibility, privacy, information security, and quality.

Are you interested in working, in an interdisciplinary research setting, on topics at the intersection of logic, machine learning and automated reasoning? The Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC) is looking for a talented PhD candidate.

Lowlands Science, the science program of Lowlands, one of the Netherlands' largest and most renowned festivals, invites scientists to submit research proposals for execution during the festival on August 16, 17, and 18, 2024.

An innovative project within the FNWI focuses on a few selected courses and strives for close collaboration between teaching teams, AI experts from the faculty and educational expertise from TLC Science. The target?

At a time when artificial intelligence (AI) is gaining traction, we are at a critical crossroads where technological advances are challenging our traditional views on warfare.

Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming the news industry as we know it. At Nu.nl, the founder, Merien ten Houten, has made this vision a reality with the launch of 'The Illustrated Artificial Intelligence' (DGKI). This means it is no longer science fiction, but has become an intriguing reality in which AI not only collects, selects and writes news, but even produces vivid images to bring stories to life.

Last year, AI systems that write human texts made their breakthrough worldwide. Yet many scientific questions about how exactly they work remain unanswered. The UvA asked three UvA researchers how they try to make the underlying language models more transparent, reliable and human. This week, colleague Raquel Fernández talks about her research.