Gods and Robots In this episode of the podcast we shake things up! Neil is on the guest side of the table with his partner Rabbi Laura Janner-Klausner to discuss their upcoming project Gods and Robots. Katherine is joined on the host side by friend of the show professor Michael Littman. See... See More Episodes arXiv Whitepapers Confident Teacher, Confident Student? A Novel User Study Design for Investigating the Didactic Potential of Explanations and their Impact on Uncertainty Evaluating the quality of explanations in Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) is to this day a challenging problem, with ongoing debate in the research community. While some advocate for establishing standardized offline metrics, others emphasize the importance of human-in-the-loop (HIL)... Learning Recourse Costs from Pairwise Feature Comparisons This paper presents a novel technique for incorporating user input when learning and inferring user preferences. When trying to provide users of black-box machine learning models with actionable recourse, we often wish to incorporate their personal preferences about the ease of modifying each... Real or Robotic? Assessing Whether LLMs Accurately Simulate Qualities of Human Responses in Dialogue Studying and building datasets for dialogue tasks is both expensive and time-consuming due to the need to recruit, train, and collect data from study participants. In response, much recent work has sought to use large language models (LLMs) to simulate both human-human and human-LLM interactions, as... More featured content News Articles Data centre emissions are soaring – it’s AI or the climate OpenAI’s data hunger raises privacy concerns Stay in the loop. Subscribe to our newsletter for a weekly update on the latest podcast, news, events, and jobs postings. E-mail Leave this field blank Can AI talk us out of conspiracy theory rabbit holes? What is ‘model collapse’? An expert explains the rumours about an impending AI doom Some clinicians are using AI to write health records. What do you need to know? AI used by police cannot tell Black people apart and other reasons Canada’s AI laws need urgent attention From thoughts to words: How AI deciphers neural signals to help a man with ALS speak CAPTCHAs: The struggle to tell real humans from fake Data centres are guzzling up too much electricity. Can we make them more efficient? Paris Olympics 2024: faster, higher, stronger – and more data-driven More news