Center for Studies UPF in Artificial and Natural Intelligence

The Center for Studies in Artificial and Natural Intelligence (CeSANI) aims to enhance research visibility in artificial and natural intelligence at UPF. Its goal is to foster innovative research by facilitating collaboration between various disciplines. By combining the strengths of fundamental research in artificial intelligence and traditional research in natural intelligence, the center promotes cross-disciplinary inspiration, idea exchange, and advancements in each field. This approach creates opportunities for relationships between models explaining natural intelligence and computational science systems, programs, methods, and tools, that translate in both new research and education programs.

The initial steps of CeSANI are supported by the Maria de Maeztu Strategic Research Program on Artificial and Natural Intelligence for ICT and beyond (CEX2021-001195-M) of the Department of Information and Communication Technologies.

• 30.04.3024. Second CeSANI Workshop. Workshop Trustworthy AI Algorithms for Media Ethics and Accountability (led by Vladimir Estivill and Carlos Castillo, with the collaboration of Ruth Rodríguez and Marcel Mauri)
• 25.01.2024. First CeSANI Workshop. Large Language Models for scholarly work (Horacio Saggion, Gaël Le Mens, Davinia Hernández-Leo).
• 14.12.2023 The science behind ChatGPT can be found at the Deep Learning Barcelona Symposium 2023 (with CeSANI members involved in organisation - Coloma Ballester -, keynote talks - Ricardo Baeza Yates - and several posters)
• 10.12.2023 Presentations by five CeSANI members in NeurIPS 2023 (Anders Jonsson, Gergely Neu, Rubén Moreno Bote, Gianni de Fabritiis)
• 15.11.2023 AI-BOOST project starts which, among other objectives, will deliver large AI open challenges (Vladimir Estivill Castro)
• 26.10.2023 Can AI grasp related concepts after learning only one? Compositional generalization in Nature (Marco Baroni)
• 05.10.2023 Putting technology at the service of society and planetary well-being: the main goal of DTIC-UPF’s new María de Maeztu Unit of Excellence strategic research programme. Videos available (several CeSANI members involved, coordinated by Ángel Lozano)
• 19.09.2023 Start of the Erasmus Mundus Program on Artificial Intelligence, coordinated by UPF (Vicenç Gómez)
• 14.09.2023 To design a new AI model that better interprets the meaning of words in each context, objective of LIFE (Learning Intentions Following Evolution)​​​​​​ EU project​ (Gemma Boleda)
• 01.09.2023 Toddlers learn to reason logically before they learn to speak, according to a study by UPF (Luca Bonatti)
• 30.08.2023 The creation of new meanings of words has common reasons in 1,400 languages, according to a study led by UPF published in Science (Thomas Brochhagen, Gemma Boleda)
• 28.06.2023 A study by UPF and ULiège reveals new insights into consciousness, which establish the basis for treating disorders such as vegetative state in the future (Gustavo Deco)
• 20.06.2023 IA moratorium. Yes or no? Inaugural act of the Centre for Studies UPF in Artificial and Natural Intelligence. Videos of the talks available, with several CeSANI members (Anders Jonsson, Vladimir Estivill Castro, Carlos Castillo, Emilia Gómez).