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Jon Stammers and Tom Hayward

Announcing Our New Joint Theme Leads for Engineering and Manufacturing

The Centre for Machine Intelligence (CMI) is delighted to announce the appointment of Dr. Jon Stammers and Prof. Tom Hayward as our new joint Theme Leads for Engineering and Manufacturing.
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Beyond the algorithm: Shaping AI for people, not just progress

We're excited to announce our partnership with the Faculty of Arts and Humanities on their new campaign, Beyond the Algorithm: Shaping AI for People, Not Just Progress.
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Driving innovation with successful spinouts

This academic year has seen the incorporation of seven new spinout companies from the Faculty of Engineering, including Kausalyze, which provides software that uses engineering-led AI.
Susan Oman sat on a red sofa in the BBC Look North studio.

Will Artificial Intelligence weaken trust in politicians? Dr Susan Oman comments on new AI chatbot.

Mark Sewards, the Labour MP for Leeds South West and Morley, has been the first MP to launch an AI chatbot replica of himself to answer questions from constituents. Susan Oman spoke to BBC news about the impact of AI on political trust.

Denis presenting SCC

Sheffield Leads the Way: Workshop on Responsible AI for Local Authorities Fuels Key Recommendations

The Centre for Machine Intelligence and Sheffield City Council yesterday brought together regional councils to address ethical and practical considerations of AI in public services. The workshop was led by CMI's Denis Newman-Griffis and Susan Oman.
Amir Masoud Portrait

Appointment of the Theme Lead in Robotics and Autonomous Systems for the Centre for Machine Intelligence

The Centre for Machine Intelligence (CMI) is delighted to announce the appointment of Dr Amir Ghalamzan as our new Theme Lead in Robotics and Autonomous Systems. 
Nao robots

Prof Roger Moore is on the What Do Robots Sound Like? podcast

Professor Roger Moore, Professor of Spoken Language Processing in the School of Computer Science, speaks to Ali Tocher in this long-form interview on the topic of sound for human-robot interactions.
Professor Guy Brown and Dr Ning Ma with the CIDRZ team at the field recording site at Kanyama Level One Hospital, Lusaka.

Computer Science academics strengthen AI health research links with the Centre for Infectious Disease Research in Zambia (CIDRZ)

Dr Ning Ma and Professor Guy Brown from the School of Computer Science recently visited Zambia to initiate a second project that will research the potential of using AI analysis of cough sound to screen for tuberculosis (TB).

Understanding how robots could fit into the social fabric of human society

Meet Miro! This animal-like robot integrated with AI perception and language models featured at the University's Festival of the Mind 2024 and received lots of interest from the public interested in the possibility of robot companions.
second year computer science student, Shohail Ismail, infront of a big IBM sign

Computer Science student places highly at IBM TechXchange hackathon

Second-year Computer Science student, Shohail Ismail, recently placed 5th at the IBM TechXchange watsonx hackathon out of over 4,000 participants.
Generative AI: what actually is it?

Educ-AI-tion Week 2024: Find out more about GenAI and education at Sheffield

Educ-AI-tion Week 2024 (11-15 November) aims to support you in exploring responsible, critical and ethical approaches to the use of AI in education.