When ChatGPT suffered an unexpected global outage in mid-2025, it was widely covered by news media outlets and social media erupted seemingly with panic. Memes showcasing the impact of the outage quickly filled social media channels. People from all walks of life, students, startup founders, marketing teams, media outlets, and…
A 15 hour crash course on deep learning for NLP with practical exercises in Keras. The lecture series is conducted at the department of Computer Science and Applied Cognitive Science of the University of Duisburg-Essen. Here is the course material including slides, python notebooks, etc.
By Lokendra Chauhan| Qatar Center for Artificial Intelligence Introduction Expert consensus on Artificial Intelligence (AI) is that it is a transformational technology and will alter the very nature of jobs as we know. While the world has been moving towards digitization and an increase in AI-adoption, the COVID-19 pandemic and the…
By Global Judicial Integrity Network, United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime The role of Artificial Intelligence technology in contemporary jurisprudence is attracting worldwide attention. The Global Judicial Integrity Network at the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime has begun researching this issue and will discuss it at its…
By Stefaan Verhulst, Co-Founder and Chief Research and Development Officer of the Governance Laboratory @NYU (GovLab). The “AI for Social Good” conference that recently took place at the Qatar Computing Research Institute examined the potential of Artificial Intelligence (AI) for good. It was widely agreed that the potential is real,…
By Dr. Ingmar Weber, Research Director, Social Computing, Qatar Computing Research Institute, and Jennifer Colville, Innovation Team Lead, Arab States, United Nations Development Programme Are you an optimist or a pessimist when it comes to Artificial Intelligence? Do you think AI will bring apocalyptic scenarios where the disruptive forces…
By Lokendra Chauhan| Qatar Center for Artificial Intelligence Qatar Center for Artificial Intelligence (QCAI) has drafted and released the “National Artificial Intelligence Strategy for Qatar”. The objective of this document is to inform and advise Qatar’s leadership on AI’s potential and a path ahead for Qatar. Artificial Intelligence (AI) as…
By Dr. Preslav Nakov, Senior Scientist, Arabic Language Technologies, QCRI The “Fake News” Phenomenon Recent years have seen the rise of social media, which have enabled people to share information with a large number of online users, without quality control. On the bright side, this has given the opportunity for everybody to…
By Dr. Ahmed Elmagarmid, Executive Director, Qatar Computing Research Institute (QCRI) “I propose to consider the question, ‘Can machines think?’ ” and thus begins Alan Turing’s seminal 1950 paper, “Computing Machinery and Intelligence.” The phrase “Artificial Intelligence” was coined six years later by John McCarthy, then a young assistant professor in mathematics at…
The aim of QCRI’s Visitors Program is to foster research collaboration between QCRI staff and academic scholars and industry specialists from around the world. Visitors are expected to spend a week or two weeks at QCRI premises and interact with scientists, engineers, postdocs and research associates and give at least…