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Looking at Explanations of AI in Context
How can explanations of artificially intelligent systems be made comprehensible, and what role does context play in this? These questions are the focus of the 3rd TRR 318 conference ‘Contextualising Explanations’, which will take place on 17 and 18 June in Bielefeld.
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How reliable are behavioural tests with insects?
Research team from Bielefeld, Münster and Jena finds evidence that behavioural experiments with insects are also affected by the ‘reproducibility crisis’.
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‘Development of new interactive decision-making systems’
Bielefeld University has set up an independent research group to investigate explainable artificial intelligence (XAI) and its influence on human trust in AI. In this interview, its head Dr David Johnson talks about its aims and methods.
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How the Holocaust narrative is appropriated and distorted
The Swiss author Alexander Estis analysed the instrumentalisation of historical memory in his lecture at the Collaborative Research Centre 1288. The recording is now online.
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‘Our approach can serve to bring more objectivity to debates’
Research Centre investigates how practices of comparing shape power structures and influence historical developments.
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Plant chemicals shape animal social lives
Bielefeld researchers reveal food-independent plant-insect interactions. Publication in the ‘Journal of Animal Ecology’.
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“The relationship between body and environment has changed”
How people’s perception of themselves has changed since early modern times. Three questions to historian Malte Wittmaack.
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When are children most receptive?
Lecture shows the influence of changing environments on learning. The recording is now online. The presentation was given at the JICE Symposium on Individualisation.
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‘Individualization is essential in both prevention and therapy’
How individual factors impact on everyday life, whether on performance or the distribution of risks. We interviewed two researchers from the JICE Institute.
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How finch parents influence their chick’s gut microbiome
New episode of research_tv: Behavioural ecologists are reporting on their study on genetic and social factors.
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‘There are always two sides to an explanation’
Machines responding to individual signals of their human partners: This is the objective of a new research project.
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New collaborative research centre for integral structures
Bielefeld University and Paderborn University receive 10.7 million euros in funding for the centre. It will be funded by the German Research Foundation for four years starting in 2023.
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How is climate change accelerating species extinction?
Professor Dr Caroline Müller explains the consequences of rising temperatures for the ecosystem.
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Maximilian Benz is keen to bring historical depth into today’s thinking
The Heisenberg Professor greatly appreciates the interdisciplinary approach and high degree of flexibility at Bielefeld University for his research.
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The reproductive advantages of large male fish
Bielefeld University researchers publish systematic review and meta-analysis on mosquitofish.
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Research Centre ‘Practices of Comparing’ extended
German Research Foundation (DFG) supports network with 11.9 million euros in funding
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