NORA Research School provides exchange opportunities for PhD students in AI related fields. Mariyam Khan just arrived at The Alan Turing Institute in London for a six-month research stay.
I had the pleasure of visiting the world's center of gravity for AI this autumn. Though self-driving cars were driving up and down the hilly streets, there were not many external indicators that I was in the AI capital, San Francisco. We were going to visit OpenAI and Anthropic, but there were literally no signs of these major companies. Had we not known the addresses, we would never have guessed what was inside the doors of the buildings housing these companies.
In collaboration with UiB AI, this addition of the Cutting Edge AI seminar series took place in Bergen. On November 24th, in the University Aula, a handful of prominent voices within the Norwegian artificial intelligence community debated the upcoming digitalization strategy and how the government's recent promise of an "AI billion" should be utilized.
Following the governments recently announced investment towards strengthening Norwegian AI research, The Norwegian Research Council established an advisory expert group back in October. In the advisory group´s inaugural note to the Norwegian Research Council, the committee emphasized the importance of cross-disciplinary research and established trust, accountability and creativity as guiding principles for prioritization.
NORA with partners recently submitted a proposal to the Research Council of Norway under the call National Financing Initiative for Research Infrastructure. The proposal's total budget is 212 million Norwegian kroner (NOK 212M), of which NOK 62M is in-kind contributions from the partners. The goal is to establish Norwegian language models as infrastructure.
In a pioneering effort to tackle the ethical challenges surrounding the use, development, and regulation of artificial intelligence, the research collaboration ENACT (Ethical Risk Assessment of Artificial Intelligence in Practice) has been launched. The project, generously supported by the Norwegian Research Council, was unveiled at Østfold University College in Fredrikstad in August 2023.
The University of Agder (UiA) has set out to make an important impact on the field of artificial intelligence, with a substantial investment of 35 million Norwegian kroner. In collaboration with Sparebanken Sør, this ambitious project aims to create a more sustainable and democratic form of AI, potentially challenging the dominance of tech giants.
Several hundred participants gathered to hear exciting presentations and discussions about what is happening in the field of AI, as the University of Bergen hosts the second rendition of the conference "Intelligent Bergen - powerhouse for artificial intelligence".
Arealize's journey started in 2020 when the three co-founders, Sophie Irgens, Yanislav Zagorov and Benedicte-Elise Foldnes, joined forces while pursuing their master's degrees at NTNU School of Entrepreneurship in Trondheim. United by a common mission, they embarked on a quest to pioneer cutting-edge technology that could empower property stakeholders to swiftly visualize spaces and explore different layouts.
The Research Council has established an advisory expert group in the early phase of the Norwegian governments recent AI initiative, from October 2023 to January 2024.
The minister will lead a new Ministry of Digitalisation and Governance that will be established from 2024
NORA, in collaboration with the Danish Pioneer Centre for Artificial Intelligence, hosted more than 160 early career researchers at the Nordic Young Researchers Symposium (Nordic AI Meet) in Copenhagen on 2nd and 3rd of October 2023. The early career stage researchers participating hailed from all the Nordic countries. The participants were given the opportunity to present their interesting research, ensuring that this conference highlighted the promising future of AI. The Nordic AI Meet, now in its third year, provided a platform for early career AI researchers to exchange ideas, engage in meaningful discussions, build collaborations, and form a Nordic approach for building AI solutions for the societal good.
A successful kick-off event for Norwegian AI Cloud (NAIC) was held at the University of Oslo on the 25th of September, where a number of speakers were gathered to talk about how to create Norway´s most powerful AI/ML infrastructure.
https://radio.nrk.no/serie/distriktsprogram-hordaland/DKHO01018023#t=1h13m33sNORA ble opprettet i 2019 for å styrke norsk forskning og utdanning innen kunstig intelligens, maskinlæring og robotikk. NORAs gjeldende strategi har bidratt til å sette retning og prioritere NORAs satsing de siste årene. Dette har gitt gode resultater. I takt med den raske utviklingen innen dette området, har NORA utviklet en ny strategi for å bidra til å styrke satsingen på norsk kunstig intelligens ytterligere.
“We went from coding on sundays, to winning the FishAI competition, to deciding that we would commercialize the idea and then getting 750 users with near-real-time data sharing of catches (…) ” - Catchwise.no
On 5th and 6th of June 2023, NORA held its third Annual Conference in Tromsø. More than 120 researchers from across Norway came together to one of Norway’s most important meeting places for the AI-community.
The NORA Annual Awards awards are given to recognise exceptional efforts of individuals and actors in the Norwegian AI community throughout the year. We congratulate each winner!
We are pleased to announce that UiS is holding this year’s NRSN annual summer school. The summer school provides PhD students with theoretical and practical research training in current forefront areas of artificial intelligence and neuroscience. The summer school is intended for PhD students in neuroscience, and priority will be given to members of NRSN. Other participants may be accepted if there are still places available.
To all NORA Consortium Partners,
Davor, Mariyam & Roxana are now two months into their PhD-exhange programs at the Alan Turing Institute. We recently checked in with them to see how they´ve been doing and what has been the highlights of the first few months abroad.
Women in AI 23 - new overview launched on the 8th of March to recognize International Women's Day!
If you are looking to attend an event that marks the International Women's Day, please find a list of events below. The list includes events celebrating women & diversity within AI/STEM & Tech happening at NORA Consortium Partners and Strategic Partners.
Have an event you want promoted on this site? Email birte.hansen@nora for more information!
On the 21st of February, NORA hosted the first CuttingEdgeAI-seminar, which marked the launch of a new series of events for NORA.ai. The goal of the Cutting Edge AI seminar series is to democratize AI by providing an accessible platform for researchers, students, practitioners and the general public alike, to gain knowledge, exchange ideas and collaborate on AI-related projects. At this inaugural Cutting Edge AI Seminar, which focused on Large Language Models, the Norwegian AI Community managed to move one step closer to that goal, with over 300 participants following the seminar online and over 100 physical attendees in Domus Bibliotheca.
If you missed the event, don't worry - videos and presentations from the keynote speeches and panel discussions are available online!
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