Professor Phil Hanna

22nd January 2024, 10.30am (GMT)

Navigating the Immediate and Anticipating the Future Impact of Artificial Intelligence

This talk explores the integration of AI within Higher Education, offering insights from two distinct time perspectives. Initially, short-term developments are examined, considering known or predictable AI developments. Following this, potential long-term impacts and challenges are considered, identifying scenarios related to the evolution of AI capabilities and potential wider impacts on educational delivery.

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Professor Gary Hardiman

22nd January 2024, 3.30pm (GMT)

The urgent need for SARS-CoV-2 controls has led to a reassessment of approaches to identify and develop natural product inhibitors of zoonotic, highly virulent, and rapidly emerging viruses. In this talk, I will explore current insights and techniques that can be leveraged to generate broad-spectrum antivirals against betacoronaviruses using in-silico optimization and Machine Learning.

Dr Laura Steele

23rd January 2024, 10.30am (GMT)

Businesses within the healthcare industry are utilising AI in a wide range of applications, including diagnostics, health monitoring, and personalised medicine. In addition to the potential to improve patient outcomes, there are a multitude of other benefits to the companies involved, such as enhanced efficiency and reduced costs. However, as this presentation will discuss, innovation needs to be carefully balanced against important ethical concerns.

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Professor Giancarlo Frosio

24th January 2024, 12.00pm (GMT)

This lecture offers an in-depth analysis of Generative AI challenges within the current IP law framework, focusing on current lawsuits for copyright infringement against Generative AI platforms. It highlights a trifecta of pressing issues: the legalities of copyright infringement in machine learning and text-and-data-mining; the debate on authorship and the protectability of AI-generated works; and the complexities surrounding infringement of copyrighted content by AI outputs.

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Dr Jia-Rey Chang

24th January 2024, 2.00pm (GMT)

Artificial Intelligence is an inevitable trend, the imminent revolution we'll all be living with. Confronting AI applied in Art and Design, the urgent questions are: Is it a threat or an opportunity; What is the common bias; And what the concerns/advantages/challenges will bring when it comes to creativity/humanity...etc?

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Kris McCombe

24th January 2023, 3.30pm (GMT)

Advances in computing and digitisation of patient data has created opportunities to use artificial intelligence to assist both clinicians and scientists in healthcare and research innovations. This session will explore the application of AI to support computational pathology image assessment in cancer research, along with the arising challenges we face today.

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Dr Deepak Padmanabhan

25th January 2024, 3.30pm (GMT)

While Artificial Intelligence is often presented as a solution to problems that humanity faces, it’s benefits and harms are shared unequally by different actors in society. It has been instrumental in creating the richest of companies, and also creating a very precarious and surveillance-oriented working conditions for a large number of workers. In this talk, we examine the political economy of contemporary usage of artificial intelligence, and deliberate on what we can do about it.

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Professor Chris Johnson

26th January 2024, 10.30am (GMT)

Software has long been an essential element of the world around us, including safety critical systems such as aircraft flight controls and a range of healthcare devices.  AI presents an opportunity to increase flexibility beyond conventional programming techniques, requiring less direct intervention by programmers, however, how can we gain the confidence needed to trust our lives to machine learning?

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