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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.

Processing language like a human

Monday, 29 August, 2022

Processing language like a human

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Many of us ask our phones or smart speakers to ring a friend, queue up a song, or direct us to the nearest gas station. But these handy virtual assistants are not equally effective across languages. If you speak to a virtual assistant in English, you will likely get the result you are looking for. But the error rate of automatic speech recognition dramatically increases with other languages. And for many languages, automated speech recognition must be greatly improved before it can provide reliable results to users.

Natural language processing is at the top of MBZUAI’s agenda

Friday, 26 August, 2022

Natural language processing is at the top of MBZUAI’s agenda

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Thanks to the ubiquity of virtual assistants such as Google Assist, Siri, and Alexa, many of us are vaguely familiar with the concept of natural language processing (NLP), which seemingly has enabled our resourceful new gadgets to understand our requests.

Uncertainty Estimation: Can your neural network provide confidence for its predictions?

Thursday, 25 August, 2022

Uncertainty Estimation: Can your neural network provide confidence for its predictions?

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Neural networks perform very well in almost all machine learning applications. However, neural networks often make very confident predictions for out-of-sample data or data at the boundary between classes. In […]

MBZUAI welcomes 127 students from over 25 countries

Tuesday, 23 August, 2022

MBZUAI welcomes 127 students from over 25 countries

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Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI) welcomed 127 new students for its fall 2022 semester. With the new joiners, the university’s student population now stands at 259.

Second Executive Program cohort concludes

Wednesday, 17 August, 2022

Second Executive Program cohort concludes

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MBZUAI concluded the second edition of its Executive Program (MEP). The second cohort comprised of 43 leaders with CEOs, directors general, and executive directors from various public and private organizations across the UAE. The graduation ceremony will be held in 2023 at the MBZUAI campus, Abu Dhabi.

AI is an important economic and social game changer, says Dr Sultan Al Jaber

Monday, 8 August, 2022

AI is an important economic and social game changer, says Dr Sultan Al Jaber

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Dr Sultan Al Jaber, Minister of Industry and Advanced Technology, and chairman of MBZUAI's Board of Trustees, touches upon how the university, the UAE's industry, innovation in the energy sector and sustainability agenda are poised to shape the country’s future, while making it the global leader in innovation.

Creating certainty through uncertainty

Friday, 29 July, 2022

Creating certainty through uncertainty

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From biology to physics to chemistry and more, the study of causality is used to answer big, important ‘why’ questions. At the most basic level, this is why all research is undertaken — to isolate and better understand why things happen. Getting deep into the mechanics of why things happen — into the minutiae of how X causes Y — is the focus of MBZUAI Professor Kun Zhang’s work. His research delves into the murky waters of cause and effect, particularly as it relates to algorithms and artificial intelligence systems.

Tactile robots: building the machine and learning the self

Wednesday, 27 July, 2022

Tactile robots: building the machine and learning the self

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The development of robots that can learn to interact with the world and manipulate the objects in it has emerged as one of the greatest and so far, largely unsolved […]

Addressing NLP problems in low resource settings

Thursday, 21 July, 2022

Addressing NLP problems in low resource settings

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My research program has focused in large part on developing effective machine learning approaches to solve the automated processing of spontaneous human language. For example, I’ve devoted significant efforts into […]

WAM and MBZUAI sign strategic cooperation agreement

Thursday, 21 July, 2022

WAM and MBZUAI sign strategic cooperation agreement

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The Emirates News Agency (WAM) has signed a strategic partnership agreement with Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI) to promote cooperation in the fields of media and artificial intelligence (AI), knowledge sharing, and training and development.

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