YLE UUTISPODCAST: Deepseek says it is more efficient than its competitors – are the claims true?
Prof. Teemu Roos was interviewed on YLE news podcast on 30.1.2025. Listen to the debate here: https://areena.yle.fi/podcastit/1-72885588 Deepseek, an AI...
YLE YKKÖSAAMU: interview with Prof. Roos
Prof. Teemu Roos was interviewed on YLE’s prime time programme on 29.1.2025. You can find the recording of the first morning here:...
YLE AAMU: Artificial intelligence is developing faster than expected
Prof. Teemu Roos was interviewed on YLE in the morning on 29.1.2025. Watch a recording of the broadcast here: https://areena.yle.fi/1-73261994 Deepseek, a...
Itä-Savo: Kerimäki school already uses AI as part of teaching – “Aiming for personal thinking and understanding of content”
Primary school students were provided with a Teachable Machine app and learning materials to support their AI learning. I peek at the computer screen of...
WAIE Monthly AI Expert Webinar Series
Prof. Teemu Roos was interviewed at the Women In AI Ethics webinar on 25.4.2024. Watch the video below.
MTV3: This is how secondary school students are already using ChatGPT – they want AI to be more involved in teaching
The project’s researcher and interaction expert Jari Laru was interviewed by MTV3 on 14.3.2024:...
Yle: Researchers find a way to get young people interested in the risks of the Internet
Yle wrote an article about the Some Machine developed by Generation AI. In the article, Professor Matti Tedre talks about the Some machine, which is currently...
YLE AREENA: New tool reveals how social media works
Yle interviewed our project leader Prof. Matti Tedre on 23.2.2024.Listen to the recording here: Social media has become a powerful tool for influence and...
YLE: Many researchers exaggerate about the future of AI – three examples show how reality is being faced
YLE interviewed Prof. Teemu Roos on 23.12.2023. Read the full story here: https://yle.fi/aihe/a/20-10005737 According to Teemu Roos, Professor of Computer...
Family Event Brings AI and Robots to Heureka – 'No Prior Knowledge Needed, Open Mind is Enough'
The news was originally published in Vantaan Sanomat newspaper on 7.9.2023. Read the original article here: https://www.vantaansanomat.fi/paikalliset/6191468...
AI Act Ballooning Into Difficult-to-Implement Mess
The text below, in which public law professor Susanna Lindroos-Hovinheimo and assistant professor Riikka Koulu are interviewed, was published on 7.9.2023 as a...
MTV Huomenta Suomi: AI for Everyone
Prof. Teemu Roos was a guest on MTV Huomenta Suomi on September 6, 2023. Discussing AI with him was also Hanna Hagström, head of Reaktor's AI business. Watch...
Artificial Intelligence Is Already Here, and We Shouldn't Treat It Like a Force of Nature, Says Computer Science Professor Teemu Roos
Kansanuutiset (KU) published an article by Toivo Haimi on 27.8.2023. The original text can be found without a paywall at this address:...
Podcast episode: Education and AI: What does AI have to teach us?
An interesting episode was published on the Technically Optimistic blog on 22.7.2023. The discussion on artificial intelligence included student advocate Shena...
Schools are now in a hurry to increase understanding of AI – after reading this article, you'll understand why and how
The text below was published on 13.3.2023 in YLE news. Read the original article here: https://yle.fi/a/74-20021837 NOTE! the original article contains media...
YLE: Researcher Calls for Understanding AI Operations, Which Is Becoming a New Civic Skill
University lecturer Anna-Mari Rusanen from the University of Helsinki, known to our project's researcher Prof. Teemu Roos, tells in a YLE interview how...
A Student's ChatGPT-Written Essay Failed Completely – AI Professor Says the Hit Bot is a Master Mainly at "Bullshit" and "Mansplaining"
MTV3 interviewed the project's researcher, AI Professor Teemu Roos, on 26.12.2022. AI can be capable of doing part of, for example, a student's homework, but...
AI-Related Sci-Fi Images Tell the Wrong Story
Project researcher Prof. Teemu Roos from the University of Helsinki discussed images associated with AI in an FCAI interview in February 2022. "Images...
Guest Post: Public Law Professor Susanna Lindroos-Hovinheimo on the European Union's Proposal for AI Regulation – Too Much, Too Confusingly?
Our project researcher Professor Susanna Lindroos-Hovinheimo addressed the European Union's proposal for AI regulation in 2021 in Edilex's Guest Post with the...
Does artificial intelligence need international regulations? Three things you should know about the EU's proposal for regulating artificial intelligence
Our researcher Susanna Lindroos-Hovila tells about the EU's proposal for regulating artificial intelligence in an article by the University of Helsinki's...
What do artificial intelligence, algorithms, and machine learning mean?
Journalist Jari Hanska interviewed Assistant Professor Teemu Roos from the University of Helsinki on the topic: "What do artificial intelligence, algorithms,...
HS Guest Column 29.10.2016: Education Does Not Respond to Changes in Work
As machines develop, information work decreases, and education should provide skills for new kinds of design work, write Matti Tedre and Peter J. Denning. THE...
Generation AI at EDUCA2025 event
Welcome to the EDUCA2026 event to try out our new applications, especially the small language engine. The small language engine is the world's first language...
Generation AI at ITK2025 Event
Generation AI project greetings from ITK2025 The Generation AI project was strongly represented at the 2025 Interactive Technology in Education (ITK) event,...
Generation AI project participates in EDUCA25 event
At EDUCA, we will publish learning materials and guidelines to support the SOMEcon and the profiling game for Finnish teachers and students! We will also...
The Great Nobel Debate, 24.10.2024
Our project researcher, Prof. Teemu Roos, will take part in a major Nobel debate on how machine learning and award-winning physics researchers are connected....
Speech on AI at the Eastern Finland Regional State Administrative Agency’s Rectors’ and Leadership Days 2024
Generation AI’s Professor Matti Tedre and researcher Henriikka Vartiainen will participate in the Principal and Leadership Days organised by the Regional...
WAIE Monthly AI Expert Webinar Series
Prof. Teemu Roos was interviewed at the Women In AI Ethics webinar on 25.4.2024. Watch the video below.
Digital Futures for Education explores AI’s impact on university teaching and learning
Our project leader Prof. Matti Tedre participated in the “Digital Futures for Education” event on 6.3.2024. Read the original news story here:...
EDUCA24: Finnish primary school pupils get an app and learning materials for AI education
The Generation AI project will publish an AI application and supporting teaching material for primary school pupils. The research-based service allows children...
Generation AI will be present at ITK2024! Webinar 2.4.2024
Interactive technology in education 2024 is approaching! Another sure sign of the success of ITK and spring are the ITK webinars. The Generation AI project will...
Smooth Finland with AI – ethically and responsibly
Four times a year, the Finnish Office for Digital and Population Information organises the Sujuva Suomi event to discuss current digitalisation phenomena. This...
GenAI involved in Girls’ Day events!
GenAI involved in Girls’ Day events! 400 girls (and boys) visited the University of Oulu on 11 October as part of International Girls’ Day. The Generation AI...
Oulu Digital Carnival: Discussion on Artificial Intelligence with Microsoft and Workshop on the Use of Teachable Machine
On Tuesday, October 3, 2023, the City of Oulu organized a digital carnival for the staff of education and culture services, where the Generation AI project was...
Generation AI at Researchers' Night
Researchers' Night is a Europe-wide science event held this year on 29.9.2023. The Generation AI project participates in the event with an AI workshop...
36 German teachers learned about the teachable machine in the Unlocking AI webinar
Codeschool Finland organized a free webinar for German teachers in which they taught how artificial intelligence can be used a) in lesson planning and b) as a...
We were represented at the Ministry of Education's AI round table discussion.
The Generation AI project participated in a round table discussion organized by the Ministry of Education on 19.9.2023. The event brought together a...
Family Event Brings AI and Robots to Heureka – 'No Prior Knowledge Needed, Open Mind is Enough'
The news was originally published in Vantaan Sanomat newspaper on 7.9.2023. Read the original article here: https://www.vantaansanomat.fi/paikalliset/6191468...
Keynote Lecture at ITICSE 23 Conference: "K-12 Computing Education in the Age of AI: From Data Literacy to Data Agency"
Background: Prof. Matti Tedre and University Researcher Henriikka Vartiainen delivered the keynote speech at the ITICSE conference in July 2023. The...
Suomi Arena: On a research journey to the futures – young people and technology at the helm
Prof. Teemu Roos participated on June 27, 2023 in the Suomi Arena panel "on a research journey to the futures, young people and technology at the helm". You can...
Prof. Tedre Participated in the Humanization of Computing and Engineering Education Symposium in Uppsala
Our project leader, Prof. Matti Tedre participated on 8.6.2023 in Uppsala (Sweden) in a Fireside Chat discussion on the topic "education in the disciplines of...
Generation AI project strongly present at Interactive Technology in Education 2023 seminar
Our project participated with a strong contribution to Finland's largest educational technology event "Interactive Technology in Education", which is held...
Keynote: What Can't a Computer Do? A History of Misconceptions
Prof. Matti Tedre gave the opening keynote "What Can't a Computer Do? A History of Misconceptions" at Interactive Technology in Education on 20.4.2023. WHAT IS...
Project researchers delivered expert presentations at eNorssi network's AI or support AI webinar
The national teacher training college cooperation network eNorssi held an AI webinar on 4.4.2023, where expert presentations from our project were delivered by...
ITK Webinar: Generation AI – Teaching Cybersecure Thinking to the AI Generation
ITK Webinar 28.3.2023 Jari Laru, University of Oulu Matti Tedre, University of Eastern Finland Henriikka Vartiainen, University of Eastern Finland Do you...
Project school collaboration launched
The GenAI project's school collaboration launched on Friday, February 3, 2023 from 9-14 at a joint planning meeting in Joensuu. The event included 7 primary...
Project Presented at Educational Sciences Days
The Generation AI project participated in the 2022 Educational Sciences Days on 24-25.11.2022. The Educational Sciences Association organizes Educational...
Guest Lecture and Workshop at the University of Jyväskylä: "Machine Learning in the School World"
Project researchers Prof. Matti Tedre and university researcher Henriikka Vartiainen held a guest lecture and workshop on "Machine Learning in the School World"...
Heureka learning material: Skilled AI
Heureka has published the Skilled AI learning package, which introduces machine learning, AI ethics, and supercomputing themes for school teaching.
Heureka workshop: AI sorter with Arduino
Heureka's learning materials also include an AI sorter with Arduino workshop aimed especially at lower secondary and upper secondary education.
New tools and materials integration site!
New tools and materials integration site is now open! Welcome to explore! Community, feedback and sharing tools will be added to the site later, but even as it...
GenAI Teachable Machine is included in Microsoft's FarmBeats for Students package
Generation AI's Teachable Machine is now used as part of Microsoft's FarmBeats for Students STEM package. The Microsoft Learn module is a beginner-level 10-unit...
Somekone 2.0 has been published
A second-generation version of the social media simulator we developed in our project, the SOME Machine, has already been released. For the end-user, the most...
The machine to be taught was equipped with an XAI tool. Now you can see in real time how the AI classifies the image
A neural network model based on deep learning of the machine being taught was given a heat map view of the AI to be explained. It not only facilitates the use...
GenAI project research and pilot activities launched in Helsinki.
The Helsinki GenAI project was launched on 11.5. at the Helsinki City Education and Training Division's Learning Digital Carnival event. The goal is to learn to...
First application developed in the project: GenAI Teachable Machine
The project develops various tools and resources specifically designed for children and young people. The first tool is the "GenAI Teachable Machine," which is...
Project school collaboration launched
The GenAI project's school collaboration launched on Friday, February 3, 2023 from 9-14 at a joint planning meeting in Joensuu. The event included 7 primary...
Consortium Planning Meeting Held at Heureka, Which Features a New Artificial Intelligence Exhibition
Generation AI held the project's first planning meeting at Heureka, which is a member of the project consortium. The location was indeed perfect for the...
Publication:The data-driven comprehensive school – balancing the protection of children’s personal data with educational objectives
Data is collected almost everywhere, and schools have also become data factories.Data literacy, personal data protection and digital security skills are...
ICALT2024 best paper: a No-Code AI Education Tool for Learning AI in K-12 by Making Machine Learning-Driven Apps
Our lead programmer Nicolas Pope’s paper on a teaching machine was selected as the best paper at the IEEE’s flagship conference on educational technology: Pope,...
Children's rights have not been adequately considered in the EU's artificial intelligence regulation
Susanna Lindroos-Hovinheimo wrote a blog post to the European Law Blog on 12.9.2023. Below is a brief summary of the text: Negotiations on the EU's artificial...
Keynote Lecture at ITICSE 23 Conference: "K-12 Computing Education in the Age of AI: From Data Literacy to Data Agency"
Background: Prof. Matti Tedre and University Researcher Henriikka Vartiainen delivered the keynote speech at the ITICSE conference in July 2023. The...
Prof. Tedre Participated in the Humanization of Computing and Engineering Education Symposium in Uppsala
Our project leader, Prof. Matti Tedre participated on 8.6.2023 in Uppsala (Sweden) in a Fireside Chat discussion on the topic "education in the disciplines of...
