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Tuesday, 25 July 2023 Launch of the FIRST European Summer School on Artificial Intelligence ESSAI & ACAI

Artificial intelligence has undergone radical changes in a very short period, which affects different areas of our lives. Some perceive this as a great opportunity, while others as a threat to humanity. Learning about the unknown is therefore crucial in adapting, coping with fear, and discovering the possibilities which AI brings to people. 

    
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The Faculty of Computer and Information Science of the University of Ljubljana launched the 1st European Summer School on Artificial Intelligence, of which the University of Primorska is co-organised. The Summer School will inaugurate the President of the Republic of Slovenia, Dr. Nataša Pirc Musar, who is also attending some of the courses. At the opening ceremony the Rector of the University of Primorska, Prof. Dr. Klavdija Kutnar and the Chair of the Local Organising Committee assist. prof. dr. Vida Groznik from the Department of Information Sciences and Technologies, UP FAMNIT will greet the paricipants.

     
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Until 28 July, AI enthusiasts will have the perfect opportunity to join 36 different courses on artificial intelligence. There will be experts from world-renowned universities (e. g. Cambridge, Oxford, Stanford, Yale, KU Leuven, Sapienza, etc. ), research institutes (e. g. CNRS) and companies (e. g. Google DeepMind, Microsoft Research, VMware). 

The courses will be based on areas such as planning and investigating, machine learning automatization, large language models (e. g. ChatGPT), incentive learning, impartiality, fairness and privacy in AI, etc.  

The ACAI section “AI for Science” will be dedicated to the use of artificial intelligence to discover new knowledge in the different fields of science, e. g. biology and genetics, earth and life sciences, knowledge formalization, automatization of scientific research, quantum machine learning, etc. 

Introductory lectures will be given by Prof. Dr. Jure Leskovec from the University of Stanford. 

     
   Prof. Dr. Jure Leskovec from the University of Stanford
Source: ŠOU 

On Tuesday 25 July, at 6 pm, a roundtable on Artificial Intelligence for Society will took place, where five renowned experts in various fields will participate alongside the President of the Republic of Slovenia. On Thursday, 27 July, at 6 pm, a roundtable Artificial Intelligence for Science will take place, where eminent experts will discuss the field of AI and its specific challenges. 

ESSAI & ACAI 2023 is hosted by SLAIS - the Slovenian Society for Artificial Intelligence. The organizers of the summer school are the University of Primorska (UP), the University of Ljubljana (UL) and the Jožef Stefan Institute (IJS).The Chair of the Local Organising Committee is assist. prof. dr. Vida Groznik from the Department of Information Sciences and Technologies, UP FAMNIT and the Vice-Chair of the Local Organising Committee is Dr. Alexander Sadikov, President of SLAIS.

More about the programme > HERE