AI in Acoustics - A London branch event

On the 22nd May 2024 the Institute of Acoustics London Branch with the support of UKAN+ (www.acoustics.ac.uk) held an all-day meeting at the Hub of London South Bank University. The event was entitled, “AI in Acoustics “ and was attended by 103 delegates. They enjoyed ten presentations divided in to four sessions given by Architects, Software Engineers , AI programmers, Academics and Acousticians. The hosts were Professor David Waddington of the University of Salford and Professor Mark Plumbley of the University of Surrey, see Photo 1. Each of the sessions ended with a discussion panel, except for the morning session which ended in an unscheduled fire alarm. The summary was AI is useful to acousticians if used ethically. The training dataset is never big enough and the power consumption appears to be growing exponentially.