It was a pleasure to welcome the chair of Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence, Malcolm Byrne TD, to deliver the opening remarks this morning at the RIA conference on 'Artificial Intelligence and education'. @malcolmbyrne.bsky.social @andrewhines.bsky.social @insightcentre.bsky.social

Join us in the Royal Irish Academy and online for a conference exploring the future of AI and education across the post-primary and higher education sectors on Tuesday 23 September. Book your tickets now. https://www.tickettailor.com/events/royalirishacademy/1804710

How is #AI impacting jobs? Dr Andrew Hines, Assistant Professor at UCD School of Computer Science, joined Claire Byrne again on RTÉ Radio One to discuss the evolving impact of AI on the workforce. www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...

I spoke this morning to Claire Byrne on @rteradio1.bsky.social about the newly formed Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence. Big tech will lobby but they should seek out and listen carefully to the voices of our society on what we want Ireland to look like as a result of the AI revolution.

Congratulations to our finalists in the 2024 UCD Research Impact Case Study Competition for ground-breaking research. "Sound check: audio quality technologies for entertainment, communication, and accessibility" showcases the work of @andrewhines.bsky.social www.ucd.ie/research/imp...

OK Go have made a lot of great videos for their music over the years. Remember This Too Shall Pass (15 years ago?!) and Here It Goes Again? The latest A Stone Only Rolls Downhill is another classic. www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOEU...

SCOREQ presents a novel contrastive regression technique for speech quality prediction. Our paper is presented by Alessandro Ragano at #NeurIPS in Vancouver this week. Paper arxiv.org/pdf/2410.06675 Code github.com/alessandroragano/scoreq @insightcentre.bsky.social @adaptcentre.bsky.social

Could "sitting on the fence" for some policies be a strategy to attract floating voters? whichcandidate.ie and Vote Smart tools have been popular with voters in #GE24. Some voters we surprised at unexpected matches. But why? WhichCandidate.ie uses a four-option preference system. #ge #GEIreland 1/6

“Even if the use of ChatGPT becomes an accepted practice within the [legal] profession, this will not necessarily provide a full defence to a negligence claim”- Irish Law Gazette, April 2023. Relying on LLMs without oversight remains an issue for all professionals. www.lawsociety.ie/globalassets...

Inclusion and Universal Design at the forefront for the UCD Dublin 2030 Strategy: Breaking Boundaries. Ambitious plans in #AI, carbon neutrality and student experience also included. Strategy implementation visible with inclusive signing for University President @orlafeely.bsky.social #udl

Insights on the future of AI & engineering! Dr. Tom Coughlin, President of IEEE, joined Orla Feely MRIA, President of UCD, as they discussed trends in research, resources, and regulation at the Royal Irish Academy. Read my rapporteur report here: www.ria.ie/blog/discour...