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AI fra og for Nord-Norge

Lars Ailo Bongo,�Department of Computer Science, UiT�&

Sámi allaskuvla�

ICE Innovation festival, 11.01.24

DALL-E: “Old professor running after industry and students in tromsø norway, funny cartoon style”

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AI buzzwords

https://medium.com/swlh/artificial-intelligence-machine-learning-and-deep-learning-whats-the-real-difference-94fe7e528097

Source: https://www.spiceworks.com/tech/big-data/articles/what-is-support-vector-machine/

Source: https://www.javatpoint.com/deep-learning

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LLMs (ChatGPT) is the fastest evolving technology on earth!

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Machine learning - �personalized (precision) medicine

E. Holsbø. Small data: practical modeling issues in human-model -omic data. PhD Thesis. UiT. 2019.

Stensen, Cañadas, et al. Social network analysis of Staphylococcus aureus carriage in a general youth population. Int J Infect Dis. 2022 Oct; �doi: 10.1016/j.ijid.2022.08.018.

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Deep learning -�medical image analysis

Shvetsov, Grønnesby, et. al.. A Pragmatic Machine Learning Approach to Quantify Tumor-Infiltrating Lymphocytes in Whole Slide Images. Cancers (Basel). 2022 Jun 16;14(12):2974. doi: 10.3390/cancers14122974

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Large language models -�generate synthetic data

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Large language models -�Predicting future mental states

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AI for Nord-Norge

Alt mulig rart!

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Medical AI for Nord-Norge

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Dual use technology

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Creative technologies

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Sámi AI lab

Core areas:

  1. Facilitate Sámi data for AI
  2. Use AI technology for Sámi applications
  3. Influence AI policies

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Use cases:

  1. Clinical tools
  2. Educational tools
  3. Creative technologies
  4. Sámi AGI?

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Summary

AI from Northern Norway:

  • Excellent research groups
  • Some AI startups
  • All kinds of AI

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AI for Northern Norway:

  • Everything as all other places
  • Medical AI, dual use technology, creative arts, Sámi AI, …