I spoke to IEEE Spectrum : “Generative AI Slims Down for a Portable World.” - more info on our Spring H2020 project IEEE Spectrum Interaction Lab The National Robotarium Edinburgh Robotics Heriot-Watt University #GenAI #NLProc #HRI #Conversational_AI #AI spectrum.ieee.org/personal-ai-as…

We won Best Demo Paper! at #EACL2024 for multi-person human-robot conversation using Generative AI / LLMs Interaction Lab The National Robotarium Edinburgh Robotics Heriot-Watt University #GenAI #NLProc #HRI #Conversational_AI #AI aclanthology.org/2024.eacl-demo…

Congratulations to and thanks to: Angus Addlesee Neeraj Cherakara Nivan Nelson Daniel Hernández G Nancie Gunson Weronika Sieińska and Christian Dondrup - paper here: aclanthology.org/2024.eacl-demo…

Looking forward to presenting our work on generative AI in stroke recovery Alana and RES-Q+ #GenAI #NLProc WorldStrokeAcademy world-stroke-academy.org/webinars/advan…

Tomorrow (18/4/24) -- looking forward to presenting our work on generative AI in stroke recovery Alana and RES-Q+ #GenAI #NLProc #Conversational_AI #AI

Looking to do PhD in AI ? Our new CDT program in Dependable and Deployable AI for Robotics (CDT-D2AIR) offers funded PhDs & a supportive research environment Interaction Lab Edinburgh Robotics The National Robotarium #GenAI #NLProc #HRI #Conversational_AI #PhD edinburgh-robotics.org/apply

In the last year our PhD students Interaction Lab achieved: finalists in Amazon Alexa Simbot challenge; Best Demo paper at EACL; papers at NAACL, HRI, NeurIPS, EMNLP, SIGDIAL, Interspeech … full list at sites.google.com/site/hwinterac…

Interested in fact-checking? Just announced: Next FEVERworkshop at EMNLP shared task: fever.ai/task.html aiming to evaluate systems verifying real-world claims with evidence from the Web, based on the AVERITEC dataset: arxiv.org/abs/2305.13117 With the amazing team:

Boosting spatial understanding in generative AI vision and language models - NAACL 2024 paper from Alana Interaction Lab George Pantazopoulos Alessandro Suglia Arash Eshghi The National Robotarium Edinburgh Robotics #GenAI #NLProc

Excited for this year’s speakers! If you are attending LREC-COLING in a couple of weeks, join our workshop!

Apply now for our PhD positions in AI and robotics Edinburgh Robotics Interaction Lab #GenAI #NLProc #HRI #Conversational_AI #AIResearch #PhD edinburgh-robotics.org/apply

Nice video featuring some of our work at Interaction Lab Spring H2020 The National Robotarium Edinburgh Robotics Heriot-Watt University #GenAI #NLProc #HRI #Conversational_AI mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/i…

Happy to announce that Alana, our spin-out company from Interaction Lab Heriot-Watt University, has started a new project with the NHS, using generative AI in healthcare #GenAI #NLProc

I’ll speak on cooperative conversational AI for more responsible gen AI and robotics, next week at the Paris Symposium on Robotics, AI, and Society Interaction Lab Spring H2020 The National Robotarium Edinburgh Robotics Heriot-Watt University #GenAI #NLProc hi-paris.fr/symposium-2024/

The call for papers for the 7th FEVERworkshop at #EMNLP is out: fever.ai/workshop.html Deadline for ARR and non-ARR papers on August 15th! And the deadline for the new shared task on real-world #factchecking using the AVERITEC dataset is July 20th fever.ai/task.html !

Very excited about this new embodied AI model from the fantastic team Alana -- outperforming Claude 3 and Gemini Pro Vision 1.0 on the OpenEQA benchmark

🚀 Excited to share our latest paper: "Enhancing Continual Learning in Visual Question Answering with Modality-Aware Feature Distillation"! Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2406.19297 (1/5)

We decided to understand how resilient robotics foundation models are to different input perturbations when performing robot manipulation tasks. The answer? Not so much! See the thread below for more info and read our paper for details: arxiv.org/abs/2407.03967

LLMs are great but they are brittle to minimal prompt perturbations (e.g., typos, indentation, ...). Q: How do we create truly multimodal foundation models? A: Do as we humans do: text as visual perception! Enter PIXAR, our work at #ACL2024NLP! arxiv.org/abs/2401.03321

📢 #NLP Are you interested in the wonderful SemDial 2024 Program semdialmeeting, organized by CIMeC UniTrento, but cannot travel to Italy? Upon request, we've opened the registration form for online participation. Hurry up, it closes on September 5 event.unitn.it/semdial2024/