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AI on the Ground Seminar: Translating an AI algorithm for antenatal hydronephrosis

Miguel Balbin — Fri, 02 May 2025 11:44:42 +0930

Antenatal HN is the most common congenital anomaly, affecting up to 5% of pregnancies and identified as a dilatation of the urinary tract on prenatal imaging. While the majority of cases are physiologic and self-resolving, a subset necessitate surgical intervention. Currently, infants are monitored with serial ultrasounds and may undergo invasive and burdensome investigations, including catheterisation and radionuclide imaging, which contribute to patient distress and healthcare costs.

AIML Special Presentation: Meaning and Intelligence in Language Models — From Philosophy to Appropriate LLM Responses

Miguel Balbin — Mon, 05 May 2025 14:38:39 +0930

Language Models have been around for decades but have suddenly taken the world by storm. In a surprising third act for anyone doing NLP in the 70s, 80s, 90s, or 2000s, in much of the popular media, artificial intelligence is now synonymous with language models. In this talk, Prof Chris Manning will take a look backward at where language models came from and why they were so slow to emerge, a look inward to give some thoughts on meaning, intelligence, and what language models understand and know, and a look at some recent work on steering language models to respond well to people’s questions and commands.

AIML Research Seminar: Sensing and Lasing with Multimode Fibre Optics

Miguel Balbin — Wed, 07 May 2025 13:51:31 +0930

When light propagates in multimode optical fibres, it is confined in many orthogonal modes whose transverse profiles are propagation-invariant. This high dimensional modal space allows great flexibility in processing the output information, as well as controlling the input information for various purposes. In this talk, I will discuss a coherent suite of topics including (i) processing the output information from a multimode fibre in the context of sensing using machine learning, (ii) controlling the input information into multimode fibre as a mean of tailoring the output for laser applications, and (iii) the introduction of physical neural network, an emerging field in complex optics toward realisation of energy-efficient and low-latency machine learning.

AIML Special Presentation: Applications of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Advancing Cancer Diagnosis and Prognosis

Miguel Balbin — Fri, 09 May 2025 14:01:58 +0930

Dr Maryam Arshad explores how advanced healthcare systems around the world are integrating artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) to improve patient care. Her Fellowship focuses on identifying how these countries are addressing key challenges, such as low efficiency, poor data quality, clinician readiness, and algorithmic bias, that currently limit the effectiveness of ML tools in the UK. By examining successful international strategies, Dr Arsham aims to inform innovation and promote patient-centred, efficient healthcare within the NHS and broader UK medical community.

AIML Special Presentation: AI Coexistence – Balancing Productivity and Societal Impact

Miguel Balbin — Tue, 13 May 2025 14:56:52 +0930

Professor Mohammad Patwary explores artificial intelligence by addressing both its transformative potential and inherent risks. He frames AI deployment as essential but emphasises the need for careful evaluation throughout its lifecycle. He draws parallels between developing AI systems and nurturing human intelligence, asserting that both require similar care and accountability, discussing case studies from the Digital Innovation and Solution Centre (DISC) to demonstrate AI applications across industries such as manufacturing, healthcare, and agriculture.