Researchers and students of the Informatics Institute regularly appear on radio, TV or the internet to present their research and its applications, and to use their expertise to indicate the news. This is an overview of media appearances and articles in newspapers, magazines and other (online) publications.
Financial AI: You can actually explain algorithms better than human decisions
Transparency and explainability, which are often emphasized, are, according to professor Sander Klous, a smaller factor than user experiences.
29 February 2024 - NL Controllers Magazine
KPMG employee receives his PhD for research into AI in accountancy
KPMG's Marcel Boersma successfully defended his dissertation on February 23, in which he presented research on the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in accountancy. Promoters Drona Kandhai and Alfons Hoekstra.
26 February 2024 - NL Accountant
Jumbo uses cameras and software, among other things, to recognize deviating customer behavior
Cees Snoek is sceptical.
22 February 2024 - NL Foodpersonality
The focus with AI is on costs and efficiency, also look at the social side
Artificial intelligence can be used in a much more socially intelligent way than is currently the case, says researcher Sennay Ghebreab.
21 February 2024 - NL MT/sprout
Experts see practical hurdles in using AI against shoplifting
Jumbo's plan to use artificial intelligence (AI) against shoplifting is met with skepticism from experts including Cees Snoek.
20 February 2024 - NL FD via LexisNexis
Increase the self-reliance of people with dementia
Somaya Ben Allouch in the context of increasing the self-reliance of people with dementia.
19 February - NL Amstelveens Nieuwsblad
AI will make WhatsApp fraud much easier
Maarten Sukel became inspired by the power of artificial intelligence.
17 February 2024 - NL RTL Nieuws
Harro Stokman about an AI application for elderly care
An article about Kepler Vision Technologies, the UvA startup based on a smart sensor that can call for help if an elderly person falls at home. Former UvA-IvI scientist Harro Stokman, one of the founders of the company, talks about the choice to set up a company around an AI application aimed at elderly care
15 February 2024 - NL FD via Lexis Nexis
AI helps chemists develop new, sustainable materials
This article also refers to the pioneering work of Max Welling on so-called graph neural networks.
06 February 2024 - NL Emerce
Financial employee in Hong Kong pays 24 million after video call with deepfake
Theo Gevers comments on this.
06 February 2024 - NL De Volkskrant
Can we still trust anything, now that every video or image can be a deepfake?
Quest talking to NFI expert and UvA-IvI professor Zeno Geradts
02 February 2024 - NL Quest
Media attention for ELSA recognition to AI for Health Equity lab
The AI for Health Equity lab focuses on research for an equitable application of AI technology in healthcare. Researchers from the University of Amsterdam, together with others, started this lab that has now been awarded ELSA (Ethical, Legal and Societal Aspects) status.
25 January 2024 - NL ICT/magazine
We need to invest in a national AI infrastructure now. Opinion article by Maarten de Rijke, Cees snoek a.o.
To avoid losing the battle for generative AI to dominant players such as America and China, the Netherlands must invest like a hare in an AI infrastructure. For our safety and economic security, argue concerned scientists from three universities.
18 January 2024 – NL Volkskrant
22 January 2024 - EN Amsterdam AI
Interview with Maarten de Rijke and Anna Salomons (UU) on AI and its impact on jobs
For some people it is a nightmare, for others a relief. More and more professional sectors are using artificial intelligence to make work more efficient.
17 January 2024 – NL Een Vandaag
Experts surprised by the use of AI techniques by the police
The police are experimenting with facial recognition technology, while there are hardly any rules for it. That surprises experts among them Zeno Geradts, forensic researcher at NFI and professor at IvI/MultiX.
05 January 2024 - NL NOS Nieuwsuur
More accessible medical imaging with AI
The staff shortage and the growing demand for care force all areas within healthcare to look for new, innovative and technically supported (digital) solutions. One of those areas is medical imaging, and in particular the assessment of medical images. A consortium led by AmsterdamUMC will work on a solution to this specific problem. AI, or artificial intelligence, must play an important role in this. Ivana Isgum, professor at Amsterdam UMC and IvI/qurAI, comments.
27 December 2023 - NL ICT&Health
Clarisa Sánchez Gutiérrez in the FD about medical AI
Het Financieel Dagblad has an extensive interview with Clarisa Sánchez Gutiérrez, professor at IvI/qurAI, Quantitative Healthcare group. In the piece she talks about the added value of using AI in medical practice, the major steps that have been taken in recent years, and what can still be improved.
23 December 2023 - NL Het Financieele Dagblad
Marcel Worring in De Volkskrant about temporarily taking AI database Laion offline
The large and widely used AI database Laion has been temporarily taken offline after researchers discovered that it contained more than a thousand child abuse images. Painful, because AI companies use the image bank to train their models. De Volkskrant has an article about it. Marcel Worring (IvI/MultiX) comments; he praises the move offline, but also believes that the organization is at fault.
21 Decemberr 2023 - NL De Volkskrant
Data leaks without hacking
When you think of data breaches involving the data of hundreds of millions of people, you may think of ingenious hackers who managed to circumvent advanced security. But a number of recent massive data breaches had nothing to do with security breaches.
Matthijs Koot researcher at IvI/CCI comments.
18 December 2023 - NL NOS nieuws
Yen-Chia Hsu in documentary air pollution
Yen-Chia Hsu, assistant professor at IvI/MultiX appears in a short documentary and an article with respect to his previous air pollution research in Pittsburgh, when he was a PhD student.
The story is from 00:08 to 11:40.
15 December 2023 - NL/EN EenVandaag, Avro/Tros
15 December 2023 - NL EenVandaag, Avro/Tros
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