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Tale er det som skiller oss mennesker fra dyr. Etter hvert har vi også utviklet skriftspråk og boktrykkekunst, og det hele har blitt digitalisert, men tale er fremdeles mest praktisk og effektivt for de fleste formål. Det er stort sett tale vi bruker når vi omgås andre mennesker. Men tale har vært en knotete måte å samhandle med maskiner på. Hjemme har jeg såkalte smarte systemer som er talebaserte og som kan styre alt fra lys til musikk, men jeg bruker de ikke så mye. Rett og slett fordi de ofte misforstår meg. Men den dagen dette faktisk fungerer så tror jeg mye kan endre seg. I dag, 15. februar 2023, er kanskje denne dagen her. Nasjonalbiblioteket har nå frigitt sine tale-til-tekst-modeller.

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.

A message from the CEO, Klas Pettersen.

In the background, Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong’s version of the song Summertime is accompanying this writing. An important part of the human mind is the ability to associate in more or less intelligent ways. For this particular instance of mind, the association swiftly runs like wild horses through the cotton fields, then it is back on track, writing this piece about NORA and AI, but now with summertime in the title.

One of NORA’s most ambitious initiatives – NORA.startup – is growing. Through cooperation between academia, incubators and startup companies NORA.startup is building a national innovation network for research-based innovation.

A digital kick-off will be held 29th September. Save the date and join us!

Membership applications and registration for NORA.startup is now open. Please apply here.

The PhD Research Fellow Per-Arne Andersen from the CAIR centre at the University of Agder won the award for best presentation at a Cambridge conference. 260 researchers of artificial intelligence from all over the world participated.

AI research and innovation is highly competitive, having the highest priority from governments, top universities, university colleges, research institutes and industry throughout the world. To face international competition and to develop great research and innovation in Norway, NORA strongly believe in collaboration. We believe that AI is especially well suited for distributed collaborative efforts.

Register today and secure your place at the NORA Annual Conference 2024! 

In the slushy cold January of 2024, the Nordic Light Deep Learning (NLDL) Conference in Tromsø, Norway, became a melting pot of ideas, innovation, and discussions. With its focus on the cutting-edge of artificial intelligence (AI), the conference bridged the gap between academia and industry, presenting a unique meeting of ethics, interdisciplinary approaches, and groundbreaking research in AI

Høgskolen i Innlandet starter et unikt studietilbud som skal kombinere utvikling og anvendelse av kunstig intelligens, kompetanse som det er høy etterspørsel etter i samfunnet.  

Kvanterevolusjonen kan endre verda. Vidareutdanninga «Introduksjon til kvanteverda for nyfikne» gjev deg innsikt i korleis verda er skrudd saman, og korleis kvantedatamaskiner kan revolusjonere databehandling.

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