It was great presenting my recent work on Embodied AI and multimodal language models. Many thanks for the invite Pasquale Minervini and many thanks to everyone that attended both in-person and online!

Thanks to everyone who helped at our Edinburgh Science event yesterday 'Two Truths and A Robot Lie', including scifest team, @NRobotarium, Heriot-Watt Engage, and Adam Smith's Panmure House. The event was a big success engaging the public with the history of Adam Smith, and the science of #robots and #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 @NRobotarium #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…

Excited to announce that "Lost in Space: Probing Fine-grained Spatial Understanding in Vision and Language Resamplers" was accepted at #NAACL2024. Work led by George Pantazopoulos with co-authors Oliver Lemon Arash Eshghi Edinburgh Robotics @NRobotarium arxiv.org/abs/2404.13594

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

Have you ever wanted to chat with a robot? Now's your chance! 🤖Come along to @NRobotarium to get involved in a research project exploring human-robotic interaction. You can contact Nancie Gunson to find out more or follow this link: bit.ly/4aL6L0u

Thrilled to get this paper out, a great collaboration with UCL VoCoLab, Angus Addlesee and Verena Rieser on how self-bias and sense of agency over a voice is altered when that voice is used to represent oneself in a social interaction.

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 @NRobotarium 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 @NRobotarium Edinburgh Robotics Heriot-Watt University #GenAI #NLProc hi-paris.fr/symposium-2024/

It has been wonderful collaborating with my friends at Heriot-Watt University 's Interaction Lab (Interaction Lab). Thanks! In January, I submitted my PhD thesis titled: "Incremental Multi-party Conversational AI for People with Dementia" Luckily, even the sun came out for graduation day ☀️

Are you using LLMs for evaluating your model? You might want to read our paper where we present JUDGE-BENCH. See the thread below and the associated paper on arxiv: arxiv.org/abs/2406.18403 Fantastic collaboration effort with many ELLIS members!

🚀 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)

What if your multimodal model succeeds when given nonsensical instructions? What if it even succeeds without being told explicitly what to do? Have we finally achieved AGI? We answer at least two of those questions w/ Nikolas V. 🦋 Alessandro Suglia Yannis Konstas (🧵for more)

If you are at SIGDIAL check out “Divide and Conquer: Rethinking Ambiguous Candidate Identification in Multimodal Dialogues with Pseudo-Labelling” by Bhathiya Hemanthage from Interaction Lab #NLProc #SIGDIAL aclanthology.org/2024.sigdial-1…

Actually... make that 8 papers accepted 🤯at EMNLP 2024 from Interaction Lab Heriot-Watt University Edinburgh Robotics : Voices in a Crowd: Searching for Clusters of Unique Perspectives (EMNLP 2024 main) by Nikolas V. 🦋 @amitparekh_ Yannis Konstas - congratulations! #EMNLP2024 arxiv.org/abs/2407.1425

Looking to do PhD in AI? Our CDT program AI for Robotics (CDT-D2AIR) offers funding & a supportive research environment Interaction Lab @NRobotarium Edinburgh Robotics #GenAI #NLProc #HRI #Conversational_AI #AIResearch #PhD Learn more & apply here: edinburgh-robotics.org/apply

It's an honour to be elected a Fellow of ELLIS in the Multimodal Learning Systems Program. Looking forward to contributing further to the thriving AI community in Europe Interaction Lab @NRobotarium Edinburgh Robotics #GenAI #NLProc #HRI Heriot-Watt University ellis.eu/programs/multi…