AI is meant to do a better job than humans, otherwise what would be the point of having it? Well, a different approach, taken by researchers at Cornell University, is to try and get AI to do just as good, or bad, a job as humans. The first iteration of the AI, known as [...]
Yann LeCun, AI guru and co-recipient of the 2018 Turing Award, reckons that the current state of AI is "characterised by trial and error, confusion, overconfidence and a lack of overall understanding". So, pretty much slap-bang in the middle of that awkward teenager phase then. It is certainly true that we have no [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]