The EU AI Act published in the Official Journal
Today, on 12 July 2024, the EU AI Act was published in the Official Journal of the European Union, following the adoption of the “Regulation laying down harmonised rules on Artificial Intelligence” (AI Act) by the European Parliament and the Council of the European Union. Starting from the 1st of August, the AI Act will enter force and will be applied directly to all 27 member states.
Codes of Practice for the AI Act
The EU’s AI Office created guidelines for the use of artificial intelligence (AI) across the Union. These guidelines cover how to keep AI information up-to-date, how to describe the data […]
The European LLM Multilingual Evaluation Expert Workshop
ELOQUENCE project coordinator dr Jordi Luque participated in the first European LLM Multilingual Evaluation Expert Workshop, organised by the European Commission and the European Language Data Space (LDS), as an […]
Green AI: Towards Sustainable and Efficient Technologies
In the ELOQUENCE project, the consortium agreed, at the very beginning, to be active in the development of green AI that meets the criteria of both being environmentally friendly and energy-efficient.
ELOQUENCE Project Advances Multilingual Conversational AI for Safety-Critical Applications
ELOQUENCE, a Horizon Europe project, enhances conversational AI for safety-critical applications such as emergency response and healthcare. Supported by the European Commission, it boosts AI reliability across multiple languages and aligns with EU ethical standards to improve human-machine interactions.
The Human Touch in AI-driven Technologies
Even though the new technology is more advanced compared to the one 10 years ago, AI still lacks the decisions that may come from people’s consciences, especially when it comes to necessary services like an emergency.
From Science Fiction to Reality
Over the years, conversational agents have moved from the world of sci-fi to reality with plenty of tangible applications. From HAL 9000 in 2001: A Space Odyssey to applications such […]
AI in Emergency Services: A New Era of Safety and Efficiency
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has quickly changed many industries and emergency services have not been left out.
Job Offer: Researcher on Efficient Large Multimodal Models for Multilingual Speech Processing at FBK Research Center in Augmented Intelligence
If you are a researcher interested in investigating novel solutions for multilingual speech recognition (and processing in general) leveraging large multimodal foundation models, the Speech Technology Lab is looking for you!
EU Commission: AI Pact
The European Commission welcomed the political agreement on the first-ever legal framework on AI, reached between the European Parliament and the Council on the Artificial Intelligence Act (AI Act). This […]