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Dr. Peter lewis was interviewed live on the ‘NOW with Dave Brown’ show, on AMI TV. Peter talked about the accessibility of AI systems, and highlighted new research being carried out at Ontario Tech University, in collaboration with CNIB. There is an audio version of the interview available on Dave’s podcast, available here.
Read more about our research on accessibility and AI, funded by Accessibility Standards Canada, at the Ontario Tech news site.
This July, Trustworthy AI Lab researchers Dr. Aishwaryaprajna and Dr. Peter Lewis attended and presented at the 2023 edition of the International Conference on Artificial Life in Sapporo, Japan.
Dr. Aishwaryaprajna presented a paper on sustainable foraging in agent-based societies. The paper presented results on how endowing agents with a reflective governor, such that they are able to observe when their own behaviour is contributing to unsustainability, can overcome ‘Tragedy of the Commons’ style unsustainable outcomes.
Further, as part of his role as a board member of the International Society for Artificial Life with responsibility for Societal Impact, Dr. Lewis chaired the 7th Special Session on Alife and Society.
With federal funding from Accessibility Standards Canada, CNIB and researchers from the Trustworthy AI Lab at Ontario Tech are working on a new research project exploring accessible forms of explainable artificial intelligence (XAI).
Read more at the Ontario Tech news site.
Thanks to a grant from the New Frontiers in Research Fund (NFRF) Exploration Stream, Trustworthy AI Lab researchers will be collaborating with Dr. Theresa Stotesbury, forensic scientist in the Faculty of Science to improve reliability of bloodstain analyses at crime scenes. This important new project will apply unsupervised machine learning techniques to establish a new data-driven taxonomy for the causes of bloodstains. Of particular relevance to Canada is to explore and model how bloodstains are conserved as the environment varies, for example in extreme temperatures and on snowy and icy surfaces.
Read more at the Ontario Tech news site.
As part of our ongoing collaboration with the Canadian National Institute for the Blind, researchers from Ontario Tech’s Trustworthy AI lab and Human-Machine lab attended an annual research retreat at CNIB’s Lake Joe camp.
There are significant opportunities in the use of AI for assistive technology, and important questions to ask around accessibility in AI technology. Our strategic partnership means that we have the ability to tackle these challenges together, as well as provide experiential learning opportunities to graduate students and postdoctoral fellows.
Director of Ontario Tech’s Trustworthy AI Lab, Canada Research Chair in Trustworthy AI Dr. Peter Lewis, wrote an invited op-ed for Canadian political newspaper, The Hill Times. The piece discussed whether AI research is hitting a plateau (in Canada, and more generally). If you don’t have a subscription to be able to read the original, there is a free, slightly longer form version that can be read on Pete’s blog.