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Learning to see the physical world: an interview with Jiajun Wu

AIHub

What is your research area? My research topic, at a high level, hasn't changed much since my dissertation. It has always been the problem of physical scene understanding - building machines that see, reason about, and interact with the physical world. Besides learning algorithms, what are the levels of abstraction needed by Al systems in their representations, and where do they come from? I aim to answer these fundamental questions, drawing inspiration from nature, i.e., the physical world itself, and from human cognition.


'The search is soul-destroying': Young jobseekers on the struggle to find work

BBC News

'The search is soul-destroying': Young jobseekers on the struggle to find work Young people are bearing the brunt of the UK's weak labour market, according to new figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS). Some 16.1% of people aged 16 to 24 are not able to find work, compared to a national unemployment figure of 5.1%. That does not include young people who are out of work but not looking for a job, due to ill health or who are still studying. Businesses, particularly in sectors that traditionally gave young people their first jobs, like retail and hospitality, say higher costs are leading them to cut staff or not take on new hires, which often hits young workers the hardest. But graduate-level roles are also proving harder to land.