Visual Intelligence organized a special curricular course on Generative AI at UiT The Arctic University of Norway this spring. The course covered Large Language Models, Generative AI for images, and Generative AI for audio.
Associate professor Benjamin Ricaud organized a new special curricular course on Generative AI at UiT The Arctic University of Norway this spring semester. The course covered Large Language Models, Generative AI for images, and Generative AI for audio.
Generative AI is a cutting-edge technology that uses machine learning algorithms to create or generate data, content, or information autonomously. It can produce text, images, music, and even other types of media by learning from existing examples and then generating new, often highly realistic, and contextually relevant content.
- Generative AI has a wide range of applications, from natural language processing and image synthesis to creative content generation and data augmentation, revolutionizing various industries and offering innovative solutions in fields such as art, entertainment, healthcare, and more, says Ricaud.
- Most companies that visit UiT to pitch ideas for master projects typically lean towards generative AI. The course is thus extremely valuable and relevant in the industry sector, as well as academia and research, Ricaud adds.
The goal of the course was to give students a hands-on experience with these new technologies. The students practiced with new open-source tools for generative AI. At the end of the course, the students will understand the concepts behind generative AI and be able to program and interact with their own generative models.
- The course also emphasized creating different AI tools, which could lead to possible startup ideas, Ricaud adds.
The evaluation was based on a 3-weeks project at the end of the course. The students got to run a practical experiment in which they performed and analyzed one or more methods discussed in the course. The students delivered a report about it, including its code.
Around 20 UiT students signed up for the new course, which is a significant amount compared to regular courses at the master's level.
Visual Intelligence assisted by funding one of the course teachers Erland Grimstrad, a previous UiT student working at the startup Abdera.ai.
After four years of operation, an international AI expert panel was appointed to assess Visual Intelligence's progress and results. The evaluation was characterized by its excellent remarks on the centre's scientific quality and innovation output.
Senior Researcher Fredrik Dahl recently gave a talk about Norsk Regnesentral's work on developing AI algorithms for automatic analysis of image quality and cancer detection at Norsk Radiografforbund's mammography symposium in Oslo.
Han høster anerkjennelse for sitt forskningsarbeid innen utvikling av mer effektive KI-modeller (Norwegian news article in Nordlys).
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Congratulations to associate professor Ali Ramezani-Kebrya for receiving a prestigious FRIPRO grant from the Research Council of Norway!
KI har en tendens til å behandle menn og kvinner ulikt. Ekspert mener teknologien reproduserer gamle fordommer (Norwegian news story in NRK.no)
To UiT-forskere ser store etiske og juridiske problemer ved bruk av kunstig intelligens i kommunal saksbehandling (Norwegian news story in Nordlys.no).
Michael Kampffmeyer is one of UiT's youngest professors and has already distinguished himself through his contributions to AI research. He has now won UiT's award for young researchers at the university's annual celebration.
The fifth Visual Intelligence annual report, showcasing the centre's activities, results, staff, funding and publications for 2024, is now available on our web pages.
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I juni møtes det norske KI-miljøet i Tromsø for å presentere ny forskning og diskutere nye retninger innen feltet. KI-forskere inviteres til å delta og vise fram forskningen sin under konferansen.
Visual Intelligence and the Digital Innovation Lab invited industry professionals to present ideas for master's projects to computer science and machine learning students at UiT The Arctic University of Norway.
Kunstig intelligens (KI) endrer måten vi løser komplekse problemer på. Ved UiT Norges arktiske universitet leder professor Robert Jenssen Visual Intelligence, et senter for forskningsdrevet innovasjon som utvikler neste generasjons KI-metoder.
Visual Intelligence researchers had the great pleasure of talking to high school students about the AI study programme at UiT The Arctic University of Norway during the UiT Open Day.
Director Robert Jenssen represented Visual Intelligence at the CuttingEdgeAI seminar "KI anno 2023: I offentlighetens interesse?" at the University of Bergen on March 7th.
Det hender at kunstig intelligens behandler menn og kvinner ulikt. Hvordan skjer dette? KI-forsker Elisabeth Wetzer forklarer hva som ligger bak skjevhetene i teknologien (Popular science story in forskning.no and sciencenorway.no)
Congratulations to Visual Intelligence board member Viktoria Gulliksen Stray for being featured in Abelia and ODA-Nettverk's list of Top 50 Influential Tech Women in Norway 2025!
Norwegian Minister of Research and Higher Education, Sigrun Aasland (Ap) got to hear about Visual Intelligence's work toward developing the next generation of deep learning methodology at a visit to UiT in Tromsø
Hva er lov og hva er ikke lov? Det er blant spørsmålene studentene stiller seg. (NRK.no story featuring director Robert Jenssen)
We had the pleasure of talking to students about the exciting career opportunities at Visual Intelligence and UiT The Arctic University of Norway during TEKdagen 2025
Last week, we welcomed students from Breivang upper secondary school to a full-day practical session on AI and programming at UiT The Arctic University of Norway
We happily welcome Solveig Thrun, who recently started as a doctoral research fellow at Visual Intelligence in Tromsø in January 2025.