by Trung Nguyen | Sep 18, 2024 | News
We are excited to share a recently published paper written by our project members–Vithya and Gill (project leader)– in the Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand. This paper reviews the bias problem of large language models and debiasing techniques...
by Trung Nguyen | Jun 5, 2024 | Materials, News, Research
We are excited to showcase a summer research project by our student Terence Zhang with guidance from Dr Thomas Lacombe. showcase a summer research project led by our student, Terence Zhang, under the expert guidance of Dr. Thomas Lacombe. This initiative is a part of...
by Trung Nguyen | May 29, 2024 | News
We are excited to share about a new ethics team in Aotearoa, the Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation. The Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation is a small team within the function of the Government Chief Data Steward (GCDS, more information:...
by Trung Nguyen | May 22, 2024 | Materials, News, Opportunities, Research
Our PhD student, Cristian Gonzalez Prieto, alongside Associate Professor Sarah Cullum from the Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences at the University of Auckland, recently presented his research at the 4th interRAI Annual Knowledge Exchange. His talk, titled...
by Trung Nguyen | May 10, 2024 | News
We are excited to share highlights from the recent “Artificial Intelligence Researchers Association Annual Conference” hosted at the University of Auckland. The conference, which brings together AI researchers from across New Zealand, served as a valuable...
by Trung Nguyen | Apr 17, 2024 | News
Professor Michael Witbrock and Dr. Vithya Yogarajan recently participated in the AI Health Workshop and Symposium hosted by the Office of the Prime Minister’s Chief Science Advisor. They joined esteemed colleagues such as Sir Ashley Bloomfield, Professor Jim Warren,...
by Trung Nguyen | Apr 10, 2024 | News, Research
This study explores whether English language models (LLMs) contain biases towards specific regions, and how these biases affect their performance in tasks like Natural Language Processing (NLP). By looking into subtle differences in word meanings across regions,...
by Trung Nguyen | Mar 6, 2024 | News, Research
Supervised by Professor Gill Dobbie, Dr Vithya Yogarajan, and Professor John Windsor (Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, the University of Auckland), this project seeks to leverage machine learning for healthcare. Title: Machine Learning to Predict Severe Acute...
by Trung Nguyen | Mar 1, 2024 | Materials, News, Research
Under the supervision of Professor Gill Dobbie and Dr Vithya Yogarajan, this research project by Kejun Dai reviews frameworks for evaluating bias in artificial intelligence models. Situated within the broader “Ethical Computing” initiative led by Professor...
by Trung Nguyen | Dec 19, 2023 | Materials, News
Image: A painting of a futuristic nurse in rural New Zealand created using Stable Diffusion on huggingface.co This recent report on AI and healthcare is from the Office of the Prime Minister’s Chief Science Advisor. FOREWORD: This report was requested by Prime...
