The Centre for Logic and Philosophy of Science (CLPS) has just joined Bluesky! If you’re interested in #logic, epistemology, general #philsci, or the philosophy of the special sciences, consider following @clpskuleuven.bsky.social for updates on publications, events, and much more! 👇 #HPS #philsky

We’re thrilled to announce the speakers for our upcoming panel Truth, Trust & Tricksters in the age of AI: 🔹Kenneth Cukier (@kncukier.bsky.social) 🔹Timandra Harkness (@timandraharkness.bsky.social) 🔹Dr Eduardo Alonso (@citystgeorges.bsky.social) Join us: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/truth-trus...

Finally, our Closing Keynote: Dr Ian Hague: Beyond #NoAI: How Accepting AI Might Change Comics #ComicsAndAI

Now speaking: Viraj Joshi: Speculation as Resistance: Mundane machine intelligence, a narrowing of futures, and plural counter narratives #ComicsAndAI

Jane Burns: Comics & AI: The Intersection with Social Innovation Education #ComicsAndAI

Karrie Fransman on Creating IRL Comics for an AI Future! #ComicsAndAI

Dr Despoina Farmaki: The Ink Was Never Human: AI, Copyright, and Comics #ComicsAndAI

Jasleen Kandhari on Drawing the Line: AI & Ethics in Comic Book Character Design #ComicsAndAI

It's been a thought-provoking and inspiring day; lots of interesting conversations, and we haven't been able to post here in real time! #ComicsAndAI

Now on: Dr Aaron Humphrey: Tracing nationalist legacies of generative AI #ComicsAndAI

We are back after the lunch break to begin the second part of the day! Now on Dr Linda Berube: “Intense Routes to Knowing”: Intersections between the Digital Sociology of Comics and AI #ComicsAndAI

Dr Per Israelson on Speculative Affect and Generative AI: Reading Ilan Manouach’s manga Fastwalkers (2021) #ComicsAndAI

Dr Julian Lawrence on Fun with AI: Digital Technology Through a Lens of Comics-Based Research #ComicsAndAI

Dr Giorgio Busi Rizzi on AI, comics, and creativity: or, why are we talking of ghosts in the machine again #ComicsAndAI

It's now @garethbrookes.bsky.social on The Autographic Witness in the Algorithm! #ComicsAndAI

And we are go! Professor Eduardo Alonso kicks off the day #ComicsAndAI

Available open access. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

I am pleased to announce that this paper has been accepted for publication in Artificial Intelligence (AIJ)! 😊 arxiv.org/abs/2310.01536

Academia is rotten cal-r.org/mondragon/S7...

You are invited to a one-day multidisciplinary conference on the future of comics, technology, and creativity. Abstracts (200 words) + bios (100 words) due: 10 July 2025. Don’t miss this opportunity to rethink comics and AI with a multidisciplinary community! #CFP: comicsandai.org #ComicsStudies

This is to inform prospective students that I am no longer the programme director of MSc AI at City St. George's, University of London. Others, more aligned with the interests of the powers that be, will be in charge. Good luck, all.

Glad to tell you that this paper has now been accepted for publication in Neural Networks. Well done @julian-jn.bsky.social !! 👏🏼🍻 arxiv.org/abs/2501.172...

Highly improved new version! Thanks all arxiv.org/abs/2501.172...

Happy "not an ass anymore"* day to me and all who celebrate! __________ A̶s̶s̶.̶ Prof.

New preprint with @corinacatarau.bsky.social and @ealonso.bsky.social from @citai.bsky.social: A representational framework for learning and encoding structurally enriched trajectories in complex agent environments arxiv.org/abs/2503.13194

🌟 Weekend Read: Advancing AI with Hebbian Learning! 🌟 Explore our latest research on integrating Hebbian learning into CNNs for more biologically realistic unsupervised models! 🔗 arxiv.org/abs/2501.17266 🔗 github.com/Julian-JN/Ad... 🌐 Follow @emp1.bsky.social & @citai.bsky.social for updates!

Malthus' principle for universities: growth until collapse. Method: Make executive teams unaccountable and wealthy, covert academics in dispensable and cheap labour, devalue curricula, abolish research, exalt intake and income and hire loyal incompetents.

1. 🧠Excited to share my published paper "Advancing the Biological Plausibility and Efficacy of Hebbian Convolutional Neural Networks" with @emp1.bsky.social. Available from: arxiv.org/abs/2501.17266

3. A Two-Phase Approach: 1️⃣Unsupervised Feature Learning: Our network first learns to recognise patterns and features from raw data without any labels through Hebbian learning with hard-winner-takes-all (hard-WTA) competition mechanisms.

New preprint from @citai.bsky.social and wonderful Julian @julian-jn.bsky.social

Integrating Hebbian learning with competition mechanisms and CNNs

An advance of a paper that will soon be available in ArXiv. All merit to my wonderful student @julian-jn.bsky.social ! I hope you enjoy it. We present an optimal architecture that significantly enhances recent research aimed at integrating Hebbian learning with competition mechanisms and CNNs. ➡️

Three Permanent/Full-time Lectureships in Computer Science are available at City St. Georges, University of London. More information can be found here: cit-ai.net/Academic-Job... To apply, visit www.city.ac.uk/about/jobs/a...

Wonderful to have participated in THE x Digital Science webinar on “Addressing evolving challenges to research security in the age of AI”. Full recording available at www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/addre... @citai.bsky.social @timeshighered.bsky.social

We are delighted to announce the merger of City and St George’s (University of London)! CitAI is expanding. Stay tuned! 😜

You don't want to miss Mel's @bayesianboy.bsky.social talk! Tomorrow at #CitAI_Seminars 👇👇

Tomorrow, Wed 12 Jun, 16:00 BST, Mel Andrews @bayesianboy.bsky.social will tell us "What's scientific representation got to do with responsible AI?" Please get in touch with @emp1.bsky.social or the organisers at cit-ai.net/seminars.html for a Zoom link/pass. #CitAI_Seminars

Wed 12 Jun, 16:00 BST, Mel Andrews @bayesianboy.bsky.social will tell us "What's scientific representation got to do with responsible AI?" Please get in touch with @emp1.bsky.social or the organisers at cit-ai.net/seminars.html for a Zoom link/pass. #CitAI_Seminars

We are pleased to announce that our AI@City has been accepted as one of the #AI UK Fringe events. Agenda and registration details: github.com/city-artific... March 6, 2024 City, University of London

If you are thinking about learning Artificial Intelligence, this master's may be what you are looking for. A peek into our programme www.flipsnack.com/C5E97B77C6F/... To have a chat with the director f2f on Feb 7 from 5 to 7 at City, please register here: www.city.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

Next #CitAI_seminars talk! Thu Feb 8 at 16:00 GTM. "Category Theory ∩ Deep Learning: Where are we, and where can we go?" by Bruno Gavranović (Mathematically Structured Programming Group) at the University of Strathclyde. cit-ai.net/seminars.html If you wish to Zoom in, let us know!

A new @citai.bsky.social preprint, “Cognitively Inspired Components for Social Conversational Agents” by Alex Clay @ealonso.bsky.social & @emp1.bsky.social discusses the benefits of incorporating cognitively inspired components into #ConversationalAgents arxiv.org/abs/2311.05450  #AI #Chatbot

New @citai.bsky.social preprint with Aaron Mir and @ealonso.bsky.social "DiT-Head: High-Resolution Talking Head Synthesis using Diffusion Transformers" Accepted #ICAART2024 arxiv.org/abs/2312.06400