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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 (🧵)

🎤 Live from our event on "Contestating Content: Moderation on Social Media."

🍒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/1FAI… networkinstitute.org/2025/03/25/res…

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👏 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. networkinstitute.org/2025/03/21/aca…

🎉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. networkinstitute.org/2025/03/20/aca…

📣 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. networkinstitute.org/2025/03/19/aca…

📣 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/2025/03/18/aca…

📣 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/2025/03/17/aca…

🌮 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/29hubKpesepHq2….

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/U4XkBSkxYXYJZW…

🎓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: networkinstitute.org/2025/02/22/dis…

⏰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 ⭐️docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI… Check out all the info: networkinstitute.org/2025/02/04/res…

🔔Join our event on social media content moderation! 🗓️ March 27, 3 PM, VU Amsterdam. We will soon open online registrations! Check out all important details of the event: networkinstitute.org/2025/02/07/con…

🔊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! networkinstitute.org/2025/02/04/res…

🎉 Join us at VU ART SCIENCE gallery on Feb 13 for a creative meetup between VU & Gerrit Rietveld Academie! Details 👉 networkinstitute.org/2025/01/31/vu-…

Learning about ** radical fashion exercises ** with Shanna Soh during our research lunch today, so cool and interesting! Thanks Shanna!