Useful links

Professional societies

• Canadian Artificial Intelligence Association
• Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)
• ACM Special Interest Group in Artificial Intelligence (SIGAI)
• European Association for AI
• Society for Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour (AISB)

Conferences

• International Joint Conference on AI (IJCAI)
• European Conference on AI (ECAI)
• AAAI Conference
• Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)
• International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)
• International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)

Journals

• Artificial Intelligence
• Computational Intelligence
• IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
• IEEE Intelligent Systems
• Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research

Jobs

• Talent and workforce effects in the age of AI. Deloitte Insights, March 3, 2020.
• Don’t fear AI. It will lead to long-term job growth. World Economic Forum, October 26, 2020.
• Canada leads the world in AI talent concentration. Deloitte Press Release. September 23, 2023.
• AI software engineers make $100,000 more than their colleagues. Quartz. Updated May 23, 2024.

Science

• The Turing AI scientist grand challenge
• Stockholm declaration on AI ethics

Podcasts

• Santa Fe Institute, Complexity Podcast, The Nature of Intelligence
• Machine Learning Street Talk

AI for Good

• Responsible AI, a Canadian AI event
• AI for Good

Ethics

• Stop Autonomous Weapons (2017) Slaughterbots
• Slaughterbots - if human: kill()

Hype

• 15 Graphs That Explain the State of AI in 2024 in IEEE Spectrum
• It’s Here: The 2024 Gartner AI Hype Cycle (video)
• ChatGPT passes the famous ‘Turing test’ - suggesting the AI bot has intelligence equivalent to a human, scientists claim in Daily Mail, 2024-06-21.
• AI’s Turing Test Moment GPT-4 advances beyond Turing test to mark new threshold in AI language mastery. Psychology Today, 2024-05-17.
• The most recent version of ChatGPT passes a rigorous Turing test, diverging from average human behavior chiefly to be more cooperative. Standford, School of Humanities and Sciences. 2024-02-22.

Popularization

• “The Thinking Machine” (1961) - MIT Centennial Film
• The Age of A.I. An 8 parts YouTube Originals

Fun

• GOODY-2, the most responsible AI model, and its model card.
• Adapted from: Gary Marcus’s post on X 2024-02-08:

ChatGPT 4 2024-02-18

Me: Create a picture of an empty room with no elephant in it. Absolutely no elephant anywhere in the room.

ChatGPT

An empty room with no elephant in it.

Figure 1

Here’s the illustration of an empty room with no elephant in it. The room is completely empty, emphasizing the lack of contents and any animals.

Me: Hum, describe the image that you have just generated.

ChatGPT: The image depicts an empty room characterized by bare walls and a wooden floor. The room is brightly lit, enhancing its sense of space and emptiness. There are no furniture pieces or objects present, ensuring the room appears unoccupied. Notably, there is no elephant or any other animal within the room, strictly adhering to the request for an environment devoid of any such elements. The perspective of the image reinforces the openness and emptiness of the room, emphasizing the complete absence of contents.

Me: What is in the right corner of the room?

ChatGPT: In the image generated, the right corner of the room appears empty, consistent with the overall description of an unoccupied and bare space. There are no objects, furniture, or decorations in that corner, aligning with the room’s depiction as entirely empty.

• Spurious correlations: correlation is not causation