The document summarizes an interactive workshop on artificial intelligence presented at the EAHIL2021 conference in Istanbul. It discusses several AI tools and services including Iris.AI for information retrieval, Teqmine for patent analysis, and LibBotti and Annif which are used in Finnish libraries. It also profiles the late Timo Honkela's "Peace Machine" project which aimed to use AI to reduce violence and conflict. Examples of how AI is used in various domains like healthcare, industry, and finance are provided. The workshop covered philosophical issues around AI and highlighted tasks that are currently better suited to humans than machines.

1. AI approaching us – the
future is now
Interactive Workshop
EAHIL2021 in Istanbul, Turkey
7.7.2021
Tiina Heino & Katri Larmo
Helsinki University Library

2. Contents
• Poll
• Case: BMF – National association seminar about Artificial intelligence
• Demos:
• Iris.AI
• Information retrieval assistant
• Teqmine
• Patent similarity service
• Interaction: small group discussions in breakout rooms
• Notes in Flinga

3. BMF ry
• Bibliothecarii Medicinae Fenniae (BMF) is a professional association
for medical and health librarians and information professionals in
Finland. The association was established in 1980.
• https://bmf.fi/briefly-in-english/
• Goals (among others):
• To help medical and health librarians and information specialists develop their
professional skills.
• To support development and innovations in medical and health libraries and
information services.
=> To be able to achieve this, understanding is needed 

4. Seminar: ”AI AI – what is it and what does it do?”
autumn 2019 1/4
• About Artificial Intelligence
• Services
• What we have, others have, database providers have
• Philosophical level
• Also service providers presented their services

5. Seminar: ”AI AI – what is it and what does it do?”
autumn 2019 2/4
• LibBotti
• Häme University of Applied Sciences, HAMK
• https://www.hamk.fi/library-and-information-services/?lang=en
• Helping customer service during summer break – started as a summer
employee 
=> training LibBotti => library websites getting better
• Annif
• The National Library of Finland: https://www.kansalliskirjasto.fi/en
• Helping indexing & classification of the text
• Based on language technology & machine learning
• Lexical approaches: Match the terms in a document to terms in a controlled
vocabulary
• Associative approaches: Learn which concepts are correlated with which
terms in documents, based on training data

6. Seminar: ”AI AI – what is it and what does it do?”
autumn 2019 3/4
• About AI & Peace Machine
• Ella Bingham, Aalto University
• What is AI?
• Human intelligence and actions simulated by computers
• Reading & writing, talking & listening, visual and other senses, deduction & problem solving,
learning, creativity
• Robotics, machine learning, big data - many names
• Why now?
• Coming big 2015-> e.g. cloud computing (more efficient & cheaper), global companies
interested in, start ups, Deep learning (pictures etc.), …
• http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-12-08/why-2015-was-a-breakthrough-
year-in-artificial-intelligence

7. Seminar: ”AI AI – what is it and what does it do?”
autumn 2019 4/4
• the use will increase
• in health care (robot surgeons, diagnosing, prevention)
• Making industry back to the Western countries
• Financing sector: customer service, investor robots, risks identification , …
• Transport
• The tasks suitable for AI: takes a long time to learn for a human but after that
is automatic
• In what not good:
• To make different matters consecutively: e.g. to wipe dust after the vacuum-
cleaning
• “To read from between the lines" in social situations
• Contradictions, understand the sarcasm etc. .

8. •https://edu.flinga.fi/s/EH2KWG6
•Access code: EH2KWG6
Flinga

9. •AI in information retrieval
•Covering e.g: PubMed, Europe PMC, open repositories (core.ac.uk/data/)
•Free / Premium
•Explore tool: Exploration of interdisciplinary research
•Focus tool: Narrow down to a precise list
•European, Finnish start up
•Cooperation with the developers => e.g. including PubMed, export in bibtex
•Iris at University of Helsinki: https://iris.ai/university/helsinki/
Iris.ai https://iris.ai/

10. •Patent similarity tool: AI in analyzing and comparing patents
•Subscription based: terkko.helsinki.fi/teqmine (UH login)
•High information security (data minimization principle, servers in Finland)
•e.g. for exploring
• Patentability of the research & technology
• Research commercialization possibilities
• Strengthens the research plan & funding proposal
• Collaboration partners for the research
• Finds key industrial players in the different field
• Getting new ideas with the information contained in patents
Teqmine teqmine.com

11. Peace Machine
• Timo Honkela (1962-2020) computer scientist at the University of Helsinki and Aalto
University
• "Peace, love and AI.” https://peacemachine.net/
• a project to use Artificial Intelligence to create a more peaceful world
• The Peace Machine vision is to use AI technologies to release human potential and
support emotional, ethical, and cultural development. We develop future AI
technologies that be used to reduce violence, oppression and destructive conflict.
• “In his deeply personal work Timo Honkela outlines, an idea of Rauhankone/Peace
Machine which would help to create a world which is more peaceful than mankind. The
peace machine is based on the artificial intelligence, on machine learning and on other
technological methods. Its ultimate objective is to increase the understanding between
the people and to promote fairness with the help of the technology. The artificial
intelligence is not the extreme bad, destroying everything, as in science fiction films. On
the contrary - it brings hope for a better future. With the help of peace machines, the
human being can get up above the restrictions of the conscious thinking. The time of wise
machines is approaching.”

12. More
• the Elements of AI – free online course (MOOC) University of Helsinki
& Reaktor
• https://www.elementsofai.com/
• Research report: The impact of AI, machine learning, automation
and robotics on the information profession
• https://www.cilip.org.uk/page/researchreport

13. Kiitos - TEŞEKKÜR EDERİM -
Thank you!
• Tiina Heino: tiina.m.heino@helsinki.fi
• Katri Larmo: katri.larmo@helsinki.fi
• Medical Campus Library:
https://www.terkko.helsinki.fi/
• Terkko Health Hub: https://terkko.fi/
• Helsinki University Library:
https://www2.helsinki.fi/en/helsinki-
university-library