Filippos's PhD dissertation focuses on developing a method for recognizing object states without visual training data. By leveraging semantic knowledge from online sources and Large Language Models, structured as Knowledge Graphs, Graph Neural Networks learn representations for accurate state classification. In this interview series, we're meeting some of the AAAI/SIGAI Doctoral Consortium participants to find out more about their research. The Doctoral Consortium provides an opportunity for a group of PhD students to discuss and explore their research interests and career objectives in an interdisciplinary workshop together with a panel of established researchers. In this latest interview, we met with Filippos Gouidis, who has recently completed his PhD, and found out more about his research on object state classification.

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Huawei Technologies debuted its first in-house operating system for personal computers, offering an alternative to Microsoft's Windows as China pushes to replace American technologies amid rising geopolitical tensions. The company's HarmonyOS is now ready to run on the MateBook Fold, its new foldable laptop, said the head of its consumer business, Richard Yu, on Monday. Huawei is working to make its operating system compatible with more than 2,000 apps, including the popular WeChat and QQ messaging platforms, he said. The laptop features an 18-inch organic light-emitting diode screen when opened flat. Along with the Huawei MateBook Pro and MateBook Fold Ultimate Design laptops, it will be available from June 6.

The Chinese government has accused U.S. President Donald Trump's administration of undermining recent trade talks in Geneva with its warning that using Huawei Technologies' artificial intelligence chips "anywhere in the world" would violate U.S. export controls. The U.S. Commerce Department had said in a statement last week that it was issuing guidance to make clear that the use of Huawei Ascend chips is a breach of the U.S. government's export controls. The agency said at the time that it would also warn the public about "the potential consequences of allowing U.S. AI chips to be used for training and inference of Chinese AI models." The department's statement has since changed to say that the agency was issuing guidance about "the risks of using PRC advanced computing ICs, including specific Huawei Ascend chips," stripping the "anywhere in the world" reference. PRC is the abbreviation for China's formal name, the People's Republic of China, while ICs refers to integrated circuits, or chips.

Microsoft is adding models from Elon Musk's xAI to its artificial intelligence marketplace. Grok 3, which Musk's AI outfit introduced earlier this year, will be available on Microsoft's cloud computing platform, the company said Monday. Microsoft and its biggest rivals in selling rented computing power, including Amazon and Google, are vying to be the place where AI applications are built and deployed. That has made a battleground out of the competition to host the latest models and build sophisticated controls to manage how they're used.

Character.ai and other bots such as Chat GPT are based on "large language models" of artificial intelligence. These are trained on vast amounts of data – whether that's websites, articles, books or blog posts - to predict the next word in a sequence. From here, they predict and generate human-like text and interactions. The way mental health chatbots are created varies, but they can be trained in practices such as cognitive behavioural therapy, which helps users to explore how to reframe their thoughts and actions. They can also adapt to the end user's preferences and feedback.

Toddlers may swiftly master the meaning of the word "no", but many artificial intelligence models struggle to do so. They show a high fail rate when it comes to understanding commands that contain negation words such as "no" and "not". That could mean medical AI models failing to realise that there is a big difference between an X-ray image labelled as showing "signs of pneumonia" and one labelled as showing "no signs of pneumonia" – with potentially catastrophic consequences if physicians rely on AI…

In 2017, soon after Google researchers invented a new kind of neural network called a transformer, a young OpenAI engineer named Alec Radford began experimenting with it. What made the transformer architecture different from that of existing A.I. systems was that it could ingest and make connections among larger volumes of text, and Radford decided to train his model on a database of seven thousand unpublished English-language books--romance, adventure, speculative tales, the full range of human fantasy and invention. Then, instead of asking the network to translate text, as Google's researchers had done, he prompted it to predict the most probable next word in a sentence. The machine responded: one word, then another, and another--each new term inferred from the patterns buried in those seven thousand books. Radford hadn't given it rules of grammar or a copy of Strunk and White.

Green was going through a breakup. The reasons for the split itself had been largely unremarkable by breakup standards: Two people, unable to meet each others' needs and struggling to communicate, had decided it was best to part ways. So when Green's ex reached out, unprompted, Green was shocked. The email itself was not notable. Green, a 29-year-old New Yorker, describes it as a typical letter to get after a breakup, an airing of grievances pointing out the ways in which expectations weren't met.

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