Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence

Paula: AI is the tool that guides our world at the moment.

Jack: I hope to change the world using AI by introducing virtual technologies that can assist people in doing their everyday tasks.

Paula: My research is focusing on trying to define error in a way where it reduces human bias. So, one example of that would be MRI imaging, where we’re trying to make the details as understandable as possible.

Jack: I’m excited about people safe online by detecting hate speech, propaganda and misinformation using natural language processing techniques.

Joe: I’m looking into the application of AI in mental health care, and particularly around supporting clinicians to deliver treatment.

Maxine: At Sussex you’ll study AI from philosophical perspectives, cognitive science perspectives, neuroscience perspectives and, of course, computer science.

Joe: The latest developments in AI are included in the syllabus, so it’s been exactly what I had hoped to be able to maintain on the forefront of AI research.

Maxine: Sussex has an amazing history in AI. We’ve had Geoffrey Hinton here, Godfather of AI. We’ve had Margaret Bowden, who founded Cognitive Science. We’ve been interdisciplinary since the beginning.

Joe: We’re not just thinking about building the best model, but actually how is this going to have an impact on the people that are going to be using it. I’m going to change the world, just a little bit, in AI, here at Sussex.

Philip: AI is the new literacy that’s required to be able to help people be useful at whatever they are going to do.

Marianna: Because for employability it’s absolutely essential that they understand how to use AI and what is behind AI.

James: There’s people here looking at the ethics of AI, helping with policy. So people in the Business School and Law School here who are really engaged in AI.

Thomas: We have philosophers, we have people, of course, in Computer Science proper, but also people interested in brains and Neuroscience. And this diversity makes it really different at Sussex.

Ivor: We teach people the cutting-edge methods and the implications of what AI tools will do in order to develop the technology, which is going to propel the UK and the world forward.

Temi: AI academics are leaders in their own fields, leaders globally, they contribute to solving important problems for both local and global society.

Luca: The AI community here is very open and very welcoming and very diverse.

Sarah: It’s such a friendly community. It embraces the students as part of the community right from the first day.

Philip: They’re actually going to interact with faculty who are in the flesh. They’ll see them, the papers that they’ll study and read, and the encouragement that they’ll get is actually heartfelt and real.

Temi: Sussex is very open to people at different parts of the journey they are on, in learning or contributing to AI.

Sarah: You’ll learn to be independent, to be able to do things that you want to do. Your journey will be directed by your interests, which I think is really important, but you gain the skills that you need to do whatever you want to do later.