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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.

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Tackling human-written disinformation and machine hallucinations

Friday, 26 January, 2024

Tackling human-written disinformation and machine hallucinations

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Professor Preslav Nakov has authored several studies that propose ways of identifying and combating the potentially harmful uses of large language models to generate false and misleading information.

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 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.

Improving diagnoses of a dangerous condition

Friday, 15 December, 2023

Improving diagnoses of a dangerous condition

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Mohammad Yaqub, associate professor of computer vision at MBZUAI, and other researchers at MBZUAI and Sheikh Shakbout Medical City in Abu Dhabi are developing a new method to identify pulmonary embolism using deep learning neural networks.

Polyglot programs: NLP for Arabic and the globe’s diverse dialects

Wednesday, 13 December, 2023

Polyglot programs: NLP for Arabic and the globe’s diverse dialects

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At the recent EMNLP conference, MBZUAI visiting associate professor Muhammad Abdul-Mageed and colleagues shared several studies that propose ways that scientists can design natural language processing applications that benefit wider swathes of humanity.

Dozens of studies by MBZUAI scientists presented at top natural language processing conference

Wednesday, 6 December, 2023

Dozens of studies by MBZUAI scientists presented at top natural language processing conference

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One of the most important annual conferences in natural language processing (NLP) will kick off this week in Singapore and, in total, 44 papers authored by MBZUAI affiliates will be shared at the conference.

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