Five years ago, Microsoft released its infamous bot, Tay, into the world of Twitter. Tay used a machine learning algorithm to learn from interactions on the platform, to then echo novel responses back based on that learning. Within short time it became…
The two big topics in machine learning/artificial intelligence (AI) at the moment are ethics and explainable AI. They are about how we should use and limit the use of AI and how AI should not be an understandable machine, which simply says…
Hype surrounds the promotions, aspirations, and notions of “artificial intelligence (AI) for social good” and its related permutations. These terms, as used in data science and particularly in public discourse, are vague. Far from being irrelevant to data scientists or practitioners of…
I recently delved into a December 2020 WEF report, Ethics by Design: An organizational approach to responsibile use of technology. Unfortunately, this white paper underscores the numerous flaws in the current approach to AI ethics I’ve been critiquing on diginomica. It essentially applies…
It was recently revealed that in 2017 Microsoft patented a chatbot which, if built, would digitally resurrect the dead. Using AI and machine learning, the proposed chatbot would bring our digital persona back to life for our family and friends to talk to. When…
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is bringing new technology and changes to the world every day. Thanks to ‘AI Readiness.’ People are willing to take technological changes as they adapt to a society where intelligence and robotics do most of the job. But the…
Artificial intelligence is an extremely powerful technology that’s not going anywhere, in fact the only way for artificial intelligence is up into unimaginable territory, hopefully that territory is filled with rainbows and unicorns metaphorically speaking but the only way we can even…
Artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics are digital technologies that will have significant impact on the development of humanity in the near future. They have raised fundamental questions about what we should do with these systems, what the systems themselves should do, what…
2017 was the year of AI Even now, all you have to do is Google search ‘AI 2017’ to find headlines like these: ‘The biggest artificial intelligence developments of 2017’ ‘2017 laid the foundation for faster, smarter AI in 2018’ ‘All the…
The Axial Age saw the independent rise of multiple societies, each with their own set of religious and cultural practices. The silk road arguably marked the end of the Axial Age, connecting these previously isolated cultures together in a network that traded…
