New preprint: we evaluated LLMs in a 3-party Turing test (participants speak to a human & AI simultaneously and decide which is which).
GPT-4.5 (when prompted to adopt a humanlike persona) was judged to be the human 73% of the time, suggesting it passes the Turing test (🧵)
🍒Join the Network Institute in a Research Lunch featuring a talk from Pia Sommerauer discussing interdisciplinary perspectives on implicit meaning in language models.
When: 10th April
Where: NU-3A67, VU Amsterdam
Register here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F…networkinstitute.org/2025/03…
Dolphins x Astronauts: The collab we didn't know we needed 🐬
A pod of curious dolphins added extra meaning and porpoise to the recovery of #Crew9's @SpaceX Dragon and its four explorers shortly after splashdown.
👏 Fifth NIAA academy project showcase!
🌎 "Depression Detection from Multimodal Neuroimaging Data: Towards Explainability and Generalization," led by Jakub Frac and Alexander Schmatz, under the supervision of Shujian Yu and Guido van Wingen.
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🎉Fourth NIAA academy project showcase!
🌎 Today's spotlight: "Visualizing the Future - The Role of Virtual Reality in Promoting Environmental Sustainability," led by Helen Arts and Summer Skillen, supervised by Tim Groot Kormelink and Kasper Welbers.
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📣 Third NIAA Academy projects showcase!
🌍 Today's spotlight: "The Role of Virtual Reality in Promoting Environmental Sustainability”, led by Jagoda Hanuszewicz and Zixuan Wang, under the supervision of Charlotte Gerritsen and Sanchayan Banerjee.
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📣 NIAA Academy projects showcase!
📷 Today's spotlight: "Designing and testing peak spreading interventions – using the VU as a living lab", led by Floor Tazelaar and Lewis Shanahan, supervised by Erik Verhoef and Ivar Vermeulen.
Find out more: networkinstitute.org/2025/03…
📣 NIAA projects Spotlight!
💡 First up: "Mapping Missionaries in the Dutch Colonial Empire 1600-1960", led by Julia Janssen and Gavin Lip, supervised by Fred van Lieburg and Victor de Boer.
Learn more about their incredible work: networkinstitute.org/2025/03…
🌮 We would like to invite you to the next Research Lunch, organised by the Network Institute! On March 13th, the ’24-’25 class of Network Institute Academy Assistants will share the projects they’ve been working on. 🧬
Register by March 10th: forms.gle/29hubKpesepHq25e9.
Contesting content moderation on social media: who should govern our public debates? 👩⚖️
Join us on March 27, 15:00 @ VU Amsterdam
📢 Speakers from Meta’s Oversight Board, European Fact-Checking Standards Network, and more!
‼️Registration lnk: forms.gle/U4XkBSkxYXYJZW4EA
🎓Academic Speed Dating - interdisciplinary researchers from IWDS '25 discuss and propose future interdisciplinary research lines.
Congratulations to everyone involved, we're glad to see all the excitement! 🎉
🎤 Live from IWDS '25 conference
Reshmi G Pillai opened the 4th Interdisciplinary Workshop on the Digital Society, with the main theme on societally engaged AI🤖.
🚀Sennay Ghebreab, from the University of Amsterdam, is currently giving an inspiring keynote on "I and I and AI."
🌟 Distinguished Lecture by Marijn Heule!
📅 March 11, 10:30 AM, VU Amsterdam. Explore AI’s role in solving complex math challenges like the Schur number and Keller’s conjecture. 🧠💡
👉 Event Details:
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⏰Quick Reminder: You are welcome to February's Research Lunch!
📷Speaker: Dr. Jeroen Klein Brinke, University of Twente
When: Feb 20th, 12:00-13:30
Where: VU Amsterdam, Room NU-4B01
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🔔Join our event on social media content moderation!
🗓️ March 27, 3 PM, VU Amsterdam.
We will soon open online registrations!
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🔊20th February, Research Lunch ⚕️
Dr. Jeroen Klein Brinke from the University of Twente will be sharing his work on the future of unobtrusive radio wave-based sensing in realistic healthcare scenarios.
Sign up through our website for a talk and a lunch!
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