The pace of change in AI is beyond rapid and it's an exciting time for research in Ireland. 

Professor John Keller is now leading the way in research as the new director of ADAPT, the SFI Research Center for AI Driven Digital Content Technology. 

Today we hear about John’s ambitions in his new appointment including his thoughts on current developments in AI, how he plans to lead ADAPT and prepare for the future and why supporting multidisciplinary research will be a key focus for the centre.

THINGS WE SPOKE ABOUT

●	Keeping up with the pace of AI as it enters the mainstream
●	SignON: Making AI accessible 
●	ADAPT’s role in mitigating the harms of AI 
●	Integrating multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary research
●	Mentoring and resourcing new researchers and culture 
●	Preparing for future challenges across different industries 

GUEST DETAILS

Prof John D. Kelleher is the newly appointed director of the ADAPT Centre and Chair of Artificial Intelligence at Trinity College, Dublin. John’s core research expertise is in the areas machine/deep learning and natural language processing. Previously, he was the TU Dublin lead in the ADAPT centre and the scientific lead for the Digital Content Transformation Strand. 

Within the ADAPT Centre he leads research projects on language modelling, lexical semantics, machine translation, novelty detection, image captioning, dialog systems, and making AI more environmentally sustainable. 

John has been the academic lead on numerous industry projects across a range of topics and domains, including: anomaly detection, transfer learning, customer segmentation and propensity modelling, dialog systems and chat bots, and information retrieval and natural language processing.

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Adapt Radio is produced by DustPod.io for the Adapt Centre
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QUOTES

The impact and penetration of AI into people's lives means that there's so much interest from industry in artificial intelligence, and that's really driving the pace. - John Kelleher 

When these types of technologies are prevalent throughout society it's important that the people in that society understand what they are and how they work. - John Kelleher 

The most important aspect, or the foundations we need to build in order for interdisciplinary research to flourish, is that we can communicate across disciplines. So we need to spend time with each other as researchers, understanding each other's language. And at the core of that is a willingness to listen. - John Kelleher 

Exciting things often happen at the margins, between disciplines, for people to come together in a complementary team, where they have complementary expertise. And so once you can build a bridge across the discipline, then you can do really exciting work. - John Kelleher 

Fluency in and of itself isn't the sign of intelligence that we thought it was before. And that's why maybe we need more emphasis on creativity and critical thinking within education. - John Kelleher

KEYWORDS
#ai #adapt #research #technology #artificialintelligence #culture #languagemodels #accessibility

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First on our agenda is Google's revolutionary Willow quantum computing chip. Imagine the power of solving complex computations in mere minutes—tasks that would take a traditional supercomputer an unfathomable 10 septillion years! 🤯 It's incredible to think about how far we've come since the days when setting up a simple computer felt like a monumental achievement. The Willow chip is designed to tackle quantum errors while increasing the number of qubits, which could transform fields like drug discovery and encryption. It’s like giving a traditional computer an exhilarating boost of cosmic energy! 🚀

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We also explore Nvidia's game-changing "Chat with RTX," putting local generative AI right on your Windows desktop while keeping data secure and private—ushering in next-gen personal AI. On the business front, Kore.ai snags $150 million, and Cohere raises $270 million Series C, fueling advanced NLP and deep learning breakthroughs for enterprise adoption. Plus, Regie.ai targets AI hallucinations in sales content, bolstering trust and compliance. 

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Welcome to *AI with Shaily*! 🎙️ Shailendra Kumar, also known as Shaily, is your approachable AI expert and author, here to unravel the fascinating world of artificial intelligence with clarity and a dash of personality. 🤖✨

In this episode, Shaily dives into a recent breakthrough from researchers at EPFL (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) who developed a new mathematical model explaining why AI chatbots like ChatGPT are so adept at understanding language. 📚🔍 This model, called the bilinear sequence regression model, was published in the prestigious journal *Physical Review X* in June.

Shaily explains how language models process speech by breaking it down into tokens—small units like words or parts of words. These tokens are then converted into high-dimensional vectors, which are essentially strings of hundreds or thousands of numbers representing the meaning of each token. For example, words like "cat" and "dog" have similar vectors because they are related, while "banana" is quite different. Imagine these vectors as stars in a cosmic constellation, where the gravity of meaning pulls related words closer together. 🌌✨

The EPFL model sheds light on why arranging these token vectors in sequences allows AI to grasp the subtle nuances of language so effectively. It’s not just the individual words but their order and relationships that give AI its conversational prowess. This insight lifts the veil on the AI "black box" and paves the way for smarter, more natural chatbots that truly understand us. 🧠💬

Looking ahead, Shaily highlights how this foundation could revolutionize AI applications—from enhancing customer service bots to improving language translation tools. He also shares a practical tip: when chatting with AI, pay attention to how it handles context and the sequence of your inputs. This sequence awareness is the secret sauce behind smooth and meaningful AI conversations. 🍲🤝

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