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Stay up-to-date with the latest news from MBZUAI and the wider industry, featuring insights into ongoing University research, innovations, and developments shaping the future of artificial intelligence. The Node gathers expert commentary, press announcements, and initiatives from the University and its partners, keeping you informed on the most relevant trends and breakthroughs.

Probability and progress: statistics and AI in health care

Monday, 8 January, 2024

Probability and progress: statistics and AI in health care

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Top scientists in the fields of statistics and artificial intelligence from across the globe will gather in Abu Dhabi this week for MBZUAI’s “AI Quorum on Statistics for the Future of AI”.

MBZUAI team wins top prize at inaugural Arabic Natural Language Processing Conference

Tuesday, 2 January, 2024

MBZUAI team wins top prize at inaugural Arabic Natural Language Processing Conference

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When a team of scientists from MBZUAI traveled to Singapore to present a study at the inaugural Arabic Natural Language Processing Conference, they expected to come home with memories of engaging discussions with colleagues who are working to solve similar problems.

Meeting unmet legal needs with NLP

Tuesday, 2 January, 2024

Meeting unmet legal needs with NLP

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One of the great powers of a technology like natural language processing is that it can be applied to both general and specific tasks. People query popular large-language models with a wide variety of questions on topics ranging from pop music to probability theory — and everything in between. But natural language processing, or NLP as it’s known, can also be applied to very specific tasks.

Emulating the energy efficiency of the brain

Wednesday, 27 December, 2023

Emulating the energy efficiency of the brain

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The brain and its biological structures have long been a source of inspiration for computer scientists. Some early research in the discipline focused on developing machines that were modeled on the way networks of neurons in the brain process information. This resulted in what are known as artificial neural networks, which today are used in deep learning for many different applications, ranging from video processing, to translation, to image generation.

MBZUAI contributes to world-leading GenAI, open-source initiatives, and a pipeline of talented practitioners in 2023

Wednesday, 27 December, 2023

MBZUAI contributes to world-leading GenAI, open-source initiatives, and a pipeline of talented practitioners in 2023

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The impact of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) has continued to positively impact industry throughout 2023, and Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI) has played an increasingly prominent role as part of the global research community.

MBZUAI and United Al-Saqer Group sign research agreement to advance AI in healthcare

Monday, 25 December, 2023

MBZUAI and United Al-Saqer Group sign research agreement to advance AI in healthcare

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MBZUAI, the world’s first university dedicated to AI research, and United Al-Saqer Group, a UAE-based business conglomerate, have signed a 10-year research endowment agreement aimed at advancing education, knowledge, and innovation in digital health.

Transformers of the handwritten word

Monday, 25 December, 2023

Transformers of the handwritten word

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Handwriting is an ancient technology. Perhaps the oldest evidence of writing are artifacts that have been found in what is present day Iraq and feature characters of the Sumarian language.

Fined tuned across languages: improving LLM instruction following beyond English

Friday, 22 December, 2023

Fined tuned across languages: improving LLM instruction following beyond English

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Large language models can struggle to provide meaningful and accurate responses to queries in what are known in the field of natural language processing as "low-resource languages.

Frontiers of federation at the AI Quorum

Tuesday, 19 December, 2023

Frontiers of federation at the AI Quorum

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Leading scientists from across the world met earlier this month in Abu Dhabi for MBZUAI’s Second Workshop on Collaborative Learning, as part of the AI Quorum – a three-day session where researchers discussed recent developments in collaborative and federated learning with a focus on sustainable development.

A prescription for privacy

Monday, 18 December, 2023

A prescription for privacy

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MBZUAI associate professor of computer vision Karthik Nandakumar and his colleagues are developing new techniques to train an image classification application for use in healthcare while maintaining patient privacy.

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