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An international hybrid workshop entitled Mental health and AI * The role of artificial intelligence in maintaining mental health will be held on November 27, 2024 from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. at the BME (in English). Location: Building "I", room IB023, 1117 Budapest, Magyar tudósok körútja 2. The event is free, but prior registration is required (participants will receive lunch and refreshments). More details, registration: https://hcaim.bme.hu/en/events/mental-health-and-ai/.
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In this academic year, the HCAIM BIP will again be held in Utrecht (The Netherlands), between Jan. 27-31, 2025. Participation is supported by the Erasmus+ programme. Application deadline for the scholarship is Nov. 4, 2024. Details: https://hcaim.bme.hu/en/bip/bip24-25/.
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The HCAIM (Human-Centred AI Master's) project, which started in 2021, ended successfully in 2024 with the acceptance of the final report. The members of the consortium – universities, excellence centres and companies from five EU countries – developed a curriculum for master's students in the topic of human-centred artificial intelligence in English. The 60-credit programme was launched as a complementary master's programme at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Informatics of the Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME VIK) in 2022, mainly – but not exclusively – for ICT students due to the required prerequisites.
About 90 BME students have joined the programme since its inception, three of them obtained their qualifications in 2022, a total of eight in 2023, and five in the spring semester of 2024. The number of dropouts is relatively high, around 50%, as students have to acquire extra credits, which often do not fit into their two-year master's degree. Nonetheless, another 30 students are expected to graduate in 2024 and 2025.
Although the HCAIM project ended in 2024, its continuation, the PANORAIMA project, is about to start. Its main goal is to extend the HCAI programme to those with a non-IT bachelor's degree, as well as to graduates who want to continue and extend their studies within the framework of adult education.
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The MI-EDIH project will hold a workshop entitled Smart Decisions, Successful Businesses – Artificial Intelligence in the SME Sector and the Public Sector on 13 June 2024, 9:00-14:30 at BME (Building Q, 1117 Budapest, Magyar tudósok krt. 2., Budapest). There will be project presentations and a poster exhibition (including posters from HCAIM BIP) in the lobby.
All interested visitors, employees, managers and founders of (future) businesses are welcome! Event programme, registration: <https://konferencia.kifu.hu/event/59/>. Please share the invitation and the programme with your colleagues, family members, friends. -
The four universities participating in the HCAIM project held a so-called Blendid Intensive Programme (BIP) with Erasmus support in 2022/23 and 2023/24, the latter was attended by five students of BME, two of whom carried out literature research and are working on their chosen topic with the support of MI-EDIH. The HCAI-EP conference in Dublin was also connected to the HCAIM project, where a student of BME VIK gave a presentation; the processing of her topic is supported by MI-EDIH in this case as well. The students will give a report on their research topic and the results achieved so far on Wednesday, 22 May 2024 from 4:30 pm in Room IB023 on the ground floor of BME's Building "I" (1117 Budapest, Magyar tudósok krt. 2., to the right from the reception, behind the coffee machine). Scheduled completion: 17:30, but no later than 18:00. The lectures will be in Hungarian, the presentations may be in English. All interested parties are welcome to attend the event. Click on the link to download the program (in Hungarian)!
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Zoltán Karászi, Chairman of the Board, QTICS Group (https://qtics.group/about) talks on the international and national status of the AI Act (https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/regulatory-framework-ai) on Wednesday, May 15, 2024 from 14:15 to 15:45 in QBF8 (Buiding Q, Wing B, Room F8, 1117 Budapest, Magyar tudósok körútja 2.). All interested are warmly welcomed by Dr. Péter Antal and his colleagues.
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AI or the future has begun? Ordinary questions in the shadow of an extraordinary technological revolution, 8 December 2023, 16:00-18:00 (online, in Hungarian). Organised by NJSZT's e-Weekdays Chapter. Programme - Google Meet link
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Budapest Workshop on Philosophy and Technology, 30 November – 1 December 2023. Hosted by BME's Dept. of Philosophy and History of Science. Programme, Audience registration (free).
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AI in agriculture: HTE AI Club – November 27, 2023, Monday, from 17:00, BME IB210. Organised by HTE's AI Chapter. Details!
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After the very successful blended intensive programme (BIP 2022/23) in the previous academic year, we shall also have another blended intensive programme (BIP 2023/24) in the current academic year. The virtual part will start on November 23, 2023, and the in-person part will take place at Utrecht HU University in the Netherlands, between January 29 and February 2, 2024. Details: BIP 2023/24. Participation is supported by QTICS Group and the AI EDIH Hungary project.
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Online consultation via Teams on the Human-Centred Artificial Intelligence Master's supplementary course for BME VIK students, Aug. 29, 2023, Tuesday, between 5 and 6 PM.
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Research into the laws and automation of rational thinking and acting has been going on for centuries and has accelerated over the last eight decades within the framework of artificial intelligence (AI). The technological advances of the last decade have opened the door to the mass production of AI products and prompted an existential question: how to create an ethical and human-centered AI regulation that also protects the Earth's biosphere and supports further development?
The singe-day Human-Centred Regulation of AI (HCRAI) Conference will be held on Wednesday, June 28, 2023 at Budapest University of Technology and Economics. Speakers will discuss the EU AI Act, including its objectives, structure, interpretation, available information resources and educational elements, case studies, as well as practical steps required for different stakeholders and AI developers.
The morning session will overview various aspects of the EU AI Act, and the afternoon session will highlight educational and technological challenges and present case studies. The conference will end with a round-table discussion.
Speakers: B. Hankó (State secretary, MCI), J. Levendovszky (Vice rector, BME), H. Charaf (Dean, BME VIK), D. Tzanidakis, D. Petrányi (ELTE), L. Bódis (Deputy state secretary, MCI), Á. Tényi (E-Group), TBA (QTICS), B. Feeney (HCAIM project, TUD), P. Antal (BME VIK), K. Mezei (BME GTK), M. Héder (BME GTK), Sz. Németh (Continental), TBA (NVIDIA), TBA (Microsoft), Tarry Singh, (Real AI B.V.), Gabriele Franco, and more.
Website with full programme: https://hcaim.bme.hu/hcrai
Registration: https://forms.gle/vDc2bDo5xNW25v6W6 Register now! -
An HTE evening club entitled Ethical Artificial Intelligence - in Health Care will be held on 24 April 2023 from 16h in BME’s Building I, Room IB023 (Budapest, XI. Magyar tudósok körútja 2.). Abstract: The impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI) on society is already a reality today, as evidenced by the staggering levels of digital addiction, social polarisation and fake news. Drawing on developments in bioethics and medical ethics, leading researchers in the field of AI are proposing similar ethical and regulatory frameworks for drug development and medical device development. The first lecture in the evening club series will present the AI Act, the EU's draft AI regulation. Speakers: Dr. Eszter Takácsi-Nagy (Kinstellar Ügyvédi Iroda), Attila Zoltán Jenei (BME-TMIT), Marcell Sebestyén (BME-FTT), Tamás Nagy (Semmelweis University), Dániel Sándor (BME-MIT). For more details see: https://1drv.ms/b/s!AtKtKGIGlc6oi_97M5kmzm0ze7Nuvg?e=0XgjNv – A later evening club in the series will present a seminar on ethical MI interpreted by the participants.
- After the first successful AI Ethicon in 2022, there will be another AI Ethicon this year in the framework of the HCAIM project, on Thursday 20 April 2023, from 10:00 to 16:30 (CET). The programme of the event (presentations + competition) is available on the HCAIM project website.
- AI Ethicon, June 16-17, 2022: a two-day hybrid (telepresence and in-person) event suitable for students in AI, professionals, and enthusiasts, regardless of their experience in AI and PPML. Day 1, morning session: Meet industry experts and HCAIM Leaders. Day 1, afternoon session: PPML Hackathon. Day 2, full day: NVIDIA instructor-led workshop: Fundamentals of Deep Learning. See more detail: general, local/BME, register.
- Privacy Preserving Machine Learning (PPML): Perspectives from the Industry. A Panel Discussion organized by CeADAR, Ireland's Centre for Applied AI. Participants: dr. Naoise Holohan, IBM Research; dr. Jack Fitzsimons, Oblivious AI; Manuel Capel, Inpher. Thursday, May 12, 2022, 12:00-13:00 CEST. See more detail and register.
- HCAIM at BME. Announcement for students (12 slides, pdf), Presentation of dr. Tamás Gábor Csapó, May 2, 2022
- Interview with dr. Péter Antal, BME: HCAIM-project: An ethical approach to artificial intelligence, at Master's level (in Hungarian), Computerworld, May 1, 2022
- Last webinar on April 27, 2022: Silent Speech Interfaces & Human-Computer Interface (HCI) / Machine Learning (ML) aspects. Speaker: Dr. Tamás Gábor Csapó (BME)
- Budapest Workshop on Philosophy of Technology 2021, Dec. 9-10, 2021: The third BudPT workshop seeks to explore a wide variety of topics connected to the Ethics of AI (ethics of autonomous cars and other robots, responsibility of AI creators, artificial minds and consciousness, etc.), Epistemology of Engineering and the Metaphysics of Artifacts. The list of authors and their presentations is available here.
- Interview with dr. Mihály Héder in Qubit, Nov. 22, 2021: For once in the history of mankind we dot not want to be clumsy when we clean up later after technology (original in Hugarian, translatable by Google)