Frans Oliehoek

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Full Professor at TU Delft. Interactive learning and decision making: ML, RL, AI & MAS

opinions are mine

websitehttp://www.fransoliehoek.net

Interested in RL and its links to control?

Join us March 24 and 25 at the CWI, Amsterdam, for a great workshop on these topics!

Speakers include: Sean Meyn, Ann Nowe, Bert Kappen, yours truly and more...

https://www.cwi.nl/en/events/cwi-research-semester-programmes/workshop-themes-across-control-and-reinforcement-learning/

Workshop on Themes across Control and Reinforcement Learning

Following our Spring School 2025 of the research semester programme on Control Theory and Reinforcement Learning, we have a general workshop on Themes across Control and Reinforcement Learning.

We are gearing up for the @ELLISforEurope community event & closing event for the ELISE project here in Helsinki! We'll be livestreaming 3 keynotes (from Bernhard Schölkopf, Neil Lawrence, Yoshua Bengio) and 1 panel (AI, ELLIS and the European Public) starting Thursday morning June 27 (6:00 UTC). Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6SVf9IEsQ7p70wgcg1MfSwgbTV3fbRzk
ELISE Wrap Up Conference & ELLIS Community Event

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What a response! More than 3,000 candidates from all over the world registered on our #ELLISPhD portal this year – more than in any year before! We are now reviewing every application in detail and will inform shortlisted candidates in January. Stay tuned!

Learn more about the ELLIS PhD Program here: https://ellis.eu/phd-postdoc

#machinelearning #phd #AI

PhD & Postdoc Program

The ELLIS mission is to create a diverse European network that promotes research excellence and advances breakthroughs in AI, as well as a pan-European PhD program to educate the next generation of AI researchers. ELLIS also aims to boost economic growth in Europe by leveraging AI technologies.

European Lab for Learning & Intelligent Systems

The ELLIS Doctoral Symposium is the annual highlight among the many networking and training events for #ELLISPhD students and will take place in Paris next year! Apply to our program by November 15 and join our international #PhD community!

Call for applications 2023: https://ellis.eu/news/ellis-phd-program-call-for-applications-2023

#AI #artificialintelligence #ML #machinelearning #PhDProgram

ELLIS PhD Program: Call for applications 2023

The ELLIS mission is to create a diverse European network that promotes research excellence and advances breakthroughs in AI, as well as a pan-European PhD program to educate the next generation of AI researchers. ELLIS also aims to boost economic growth in Europe by leveraging AI technologies.

European Lab for Learning & Intelligent Systems
Congratulations! ELLIS President Bernhard Schölkopf receives the 2022 ACM - AAAI Allen Newell Award: https://awards.acm.org/newell
ACM, AAAI Recognize Levesque and Vardi for Theoretical and Logic Contributions

The 2020 ACM – AAAI Allen Newell Award honors Hector Levesque and Moshe Vardi. Levesque is recognized for fundamental contributions to knowledge representation and reasoning, and their broader influence within theoretical computer science, databases, robotics, and the study of Boolean satisfiability. Vardi is cited for contributions to the development of logic as a unifying foundational framework and a tool for modeling computational systems.

The very first citation in this stupid letter, https://futureoflife.org/open-letter/pause-giant-ai-experiments/, is to our #StochasticParrots Paper,

"AI systems with human-competitive intelligence can pose profound risks to society and humanity, as shown by extensive research[1]"

EXCEPT

that one of the main points we make in the paper is that one of the biggest harms of large language models, is caused by CLAIMING that LLMs have "human-competitive intelligence."

They basically say the opposite of what we say and cite our paper?

Pause Giant AI Experiments: An Open Letter - Future of Life Institute

We call on all AI labs to immediately pause for at least 6 months the training of AI systems more powerful than GPT-4.

Future of Life Institute
This is a huge milestone for #ELLISforEurope! Our network has just welcomed the 1000th member! 🎉 This means: 1000 researchers are now working with us towards the same goal: securing Europe’s sovereignty in modern #AI! Thank you all! #JoinELLISforEurope https://ellis.eu/members
Members

The ELLIS mission is to create a diverse European network that promotes research excellence and advances breakthroughs in AI, as well as a pan-European PhD program to educate the next generation of AI researchers. ELLIS also aims to boost economic growth in Europe by leveraging AI technologies.

European Lab for Learning & Intelligent Systems
Our #ELLISPhD Program will be featured as one of the case studies for PhD AI Education in Europe during the AIDA AI Education online event on March 9 (10:00 CET). Register now and ask your questions about our program during the event! Other topics on the agenda include risks and opportunities of ChatGPT for education, and factors that make a good PhD program in #AI. https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN__fku2aYbQWaxQTrwACZolw
Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: AIDA AI EDUCATION ONLINE EVENT. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: AIDA AI EDUCATION ONLINE EVENT. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.

Zoom

At the City of Amsterdam, we've been using #AI to assess, analyse, and hopefully improve pedestrian #accessibility. My colleagues Iva Gornishka and Shayla Jansen explain how we've been doing so so far, and what our current interns from the Universiteit van Amsterdam and Universiteit Maastricht - Andrea Lombardo, Alisa Todorova, and Aditi Mishra - are currently working on.

https://amsterdamintelligence.com/posts/automatically-collecting-pedestrian-accessibility-information

Automatically Collecting Pedestrian Accessibility Information

Recently, we shared with you the methodologies behind the venue accessibility pilots [https://www.amsterdamintelligence.com/posts/venue-accessibility-information-extraction] that we already did as part of our Amsterdam for All project. Today, it is time to dive into the topic of pedestrian accessibility. First, we look at Jorrit Ypenga's approach to detecting canal railings on panorama images. Next, we dive into Johanna Fiebag's methodology for analyzing temporal obstacles such as parked microm

Hee, KLM-mevrouw Rintel, als we die kerosinetax nou eens inzetten om de dienstverlening en overstaps bij internationale treinen te verbeteren (de infra ligt er namelijk al grotendeels), dan kunnen internationale treinen een flink deel van het vliegen binnen Europa overnemen hoor.
https://www.volkskrant.nl/nieuws-achtergrond/klm-baas-marjan-rintel-natuurlijk-kun-je-zeggen-minder-vliegen-maar-daar-gaan-we-spijt-van-krijgen~bbbd66e5/
KLM-baas Marjan Rintel: ‘Natuurlijk kun je zeggen: minder vliegen. Maar daar gaan we spijt van krijgen’

KLM neemt het voortouw in de strijd tegen de krimp van Schiphol. De luchtvaartmaatschappij spant een kort geding aan tegen het ministerie van Infra...

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