Greta Warren presented a talk “Categorical and Continuous Features in Counterfactual Explanations of AI Systems” in person at the Association for Computing Machinery’s Intelligent User Interfaces 28th annual conference which was held in Sydney, Australia from March 28th-31st. The paper is available here.
Xinyue Dai presented her research on counterfactual explanations in artificial intelligence at the conference on artificial intelligence, ethics and fairness in Oxford. The paper is available here:
Listen to Tom Molloy’s interview with Ruth Byrne about thinking, reasoning and imagination on the Trinity College Dublin talks podcast series here: https://soundcloud.com/tcdtalks/gold-medal-winning-prof-ruth-byrne-on-thinking-reasoning-and-the-ever-elusive-human-imagination?utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing
The Cognitive Aspects of Knowledge Representation workshop at IJCAI-22 in Vienna on July 23rd included a keynote talk by Ruth Byrne on “Knowledge representation: evidence from the cognitive science of counterfactual reasoning”, slides available here, and a talk by Greta Warren on “Features of explainability: how users understand counterfactual and causal explanations for categorical and continuous features in XAI” (Greta Warren, Mark Keane, & Ruth Byrne), paper available here.
Ruth Byrne was awarded the Royal Irish Academy 2021 Gold Medal in Social Sciences, which was presented by the Taoiseach in the Provost’s house in Trinity in April 2022.
Ruth Byrne was invited by the National Gallery of Ireland’s Head Curator, Dr Brendan Rooney, and curator of Irish Art, Donal Maguire, to collaborate in the Jack B Yeats “Painting and Memory” exhibition to celebrate the 150th anniversary of his birth.
Her article ‘Imaginative Cognition in the Paintings of Jack B Yeats’ was published in the “Jack B Yeats Painting and Memory” Exhibition Companion Book (2021, National Gallery of Ireland).
The National Gallery of Ireland podcast series includes a podcast of her conversation with Brendan Rooney on memory and imagination in Yeats’s paintings.
How people reason with counterpossible conditionals – Ruth Byrne, 28th Conference of the European Society for Philosophy and Psychology, Leipzig, Germany (online), 30th Aug-2nd Sept 2021. https://www.espp2021.com/
Panel speaker – Ruth Byrne, 38th International Conference on Machine Learning, Workshop on Algorithmic Recourse (online), 24th July 2021.https://sites.google.com/view/recourse21
Counterfactual explanations in explainable AI – Greta Warren, Molly Quinn, Ruth Byrne, and Mark Keane. Cognitive Science Society 43rd Annual Conference, Vienna, Austria (online), 27th-30th July 2021. https://escholarship.org/uc/cognitivesciencesociety/43/43
How people reason with counterpossibles- Ruth Byrne, International Thinking Conference, Paris, France (online), 21st-25th June 2021. https://www.ict-2020.eu/
Human counterfactual imagination – Ruth Byrne, British University of Egypt, Research Centre for Irish Studies, Cairo, Eygpt (online), 28th May 2021. https://www.bue.edu.eg/bue-research-centre-for-irish-studies-rcis/
The psychology of counterfactual explanations in XAI – Ruth Byrne, Information Science and Technology Institute, Pisa, Italy (online), 15th June 2021. https://xai-project.eu/dist-seminars.html#byrne
How people understand and reason with counterpossibles- Ruth Byrne, Logic of Conceivability Conference, Amsterdam, Netherlands (online), 7th-9th June, 2021. http://projects.illc.uva.nl/conceivability/LoC-Conference/
Ruth gave a talk on “how people reason with counterpossible and counterfactual conditionals” at the Workshop on Counterfactual Reasoning in Science at Birmingham University on 25th March
https://framephys.org/counterfactual-reasoning-in-science-25-mar-2021/
Ruth Byrne and Mark Keane gave a talk at the Algorithmic Recourse in Machine Learning meeting on “Counterfactuals in XAI: Human and Computational Studies” – the schedule, recordings, and slides are available at: https://sites.google.com/view/algorithmic-recourse/home
Reasoning and Imagination Lab 