A key mantra of Responsible AI is 'just because you can do something doesn't mean you have to'. So when some schools in Ayrshire, Scotland, start using Facial Recognition Technology (FRT) on school children in order for them to pay for their lunch, you've got to think there must be less intrusive, less dangerous [...]
Most articles about robots show a shiny machine with a smiley face trying very hard to provide some trivial service to a human. Most examples end up just being marketing hype and novelties that have little practical use. But I did come across an example where shiny robots with smiley faces were actually [...]
I've written a few times in the past about how the latest raft of massive algorithms, such as OpenAI's GPT-3, can generate offensive text because they have been trained on pretty much the whole internet, which, as we all know, has more than its fair share of offensive material. But this is the [...]
Are You AI-Ready? With all the hype surrounding Artificial Intelligence, many business people are wondering how AI can help their organisation, and whether they are ready to adopt the technology. Most people struggle to understand exactly what AI is, and how they can actually get started. Which is why [...]
Parkinson’s UK is Europe's leading Parkinson’s support and research charity. The organisation raises around £35m p.a. to drive better care, treatments and quality of life for those with Parkinson’s, their friends, family and their carers.. Parkinson's UK has been working hard to understand the value of its data and the benefits that it can deliver [...]
I was invited by HotTopics last year to talk at a couple of their roundtables as part of their Studio conference which brings together leaders from the world of technology. For one of the roundtables we were a person down, so it turned into a rather interesting one-to-one conversation with Thomson Reuters' journalist Djamilla [...]
When I was first asked to write an article for the PR firm CommsCo on the impact of AI way back in February the world was a very different place. In the UK we were free to move around and the biggest sin was shaking hands with someone. Within a matter of weeks most [...]
Post two of two: As part of a panel discussion at Information Age's Tech Leaders Summit, I was asked to sum up a couple of areas that we had been discussing: how to start your AI and RPA journey, and what the future looks like for these two technologies. You can watch the second of [...]
Post one of two: As part of a panel discussion at Information Age's Tech Leaders Summit, I was asked to sum up a couple of areas that we had been discussing: how to start your AI and RPA journey, and what the future looks like for these two technologies. You can watch the first of [...]
The responsible and ethical use of AI is close to our hearts at greenhouse intelligence. Andrew Burgess, greenhouse's CEO, has been writing and speaking on the important aspect of the democratisation of AI. As well as his speech at the All Party Parliamentary Group on AI last year, he was also asked to write an [...]