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Code of Justice: Examining AI's Role in the US Criminal Justice System

2025-02-02

The use of AI in the US criminal justice system has become pervasive across all areas. AI assists in identifying crimes through predictive policing and audio sensors for gunshot alerts. It helps to solve cases through the probabilistic software used...

Unreal Flavors, Unreal Place: The Rise of Fake Fine Dining

2025-01-19

Ethos. A restaurant famous across Instagram. With 85.7 K in followers, that’s much more than many Michelin star restaurants even have. Who can blame the people? With Pikachu shaped ravioli, Gordon Ramsay’s head carved out of a pumpkin, sushi offered...

smartR AI Black Mirror Vlog

2025-01-07

Join the smartR AI team as they delve into futuristic AI discussions and consider Black Mirror-like scenarios. The inspiration for this discussion is Black Mirror, some of you may be aware of the series, some of you may not. Black...

SB 1047: A controversial bill

2024-12-16

California’s recent AI Regulation Bill (‘SB 1047’) has caused significant controversy across the AI community. The bill has been so contentious that it has become the center of a “fierce national debate”. The biggest players in the AI industry are...

A Lords Guide to Regulating AI: pro-innovation can be pro-regulation

2024-12-02

I recently had the privilege to speak to Lord Christopher Holmes of Richmond (‘Lord Holmes’), Britain’s most successful paralympic swimmer and the creator of the Artificial Intelligence (Regulation) Bill currently making its way through the houses of parliament, to find...

The Nobel Prize Scandal: has AI slithered its way in?

2024-11-18

Every year there is disagreement about who should have won the Nobel Prize. But this year, the physics and chemistry awards might be considered the most controversial yet. Amidst claims of the committee succumbing to the AI hype I spoke...

Good Riddance TikTok

2024-11-04

TRIGGER WARNING: PLEASE TAKE CARE WHEN READING THIS BLOG, THIS BLOG CONTAINS CONTENT ABOUT SELF-HARM INVOLVING CHILDREN. Children in Danger. Challenges. Perhaps once associated with the noble and reckless endeavors of Herculean tasks, now reduced to children harming themselves behind locked doors...

China vs America: race to AI domination

2024-10-21

Politics 101. One of the first things they will teach you in any international relations course at university is that the US is a unipolar hegemony. In simple terms: the US is pretty much in charge of setting the rules...

Artificial Intimacy: A deadly love affair?

2024-10-07

AI girlfriends and boyfriends. Sound strange? Wait till you hear what they have been up to… From insisting individuals leave their spouses and causing fiancés to call off weddings, to encouraging a 19-year old to plot the murder of Queen...

AI spells out the end of truth in politics

2024-09-30

This is a very big year for world politics. There are more than 64 countries (plus the EU) holding elections in 2024, representing 49% of the world’s population. The US elections are drawing ever closer, and all the while the...

Levelling Up: How AI is Powering the Future of Gaming

2024-09-23

Recently, I watched a video published in 2022 of a man using at least 3 different generative AI programs to create a video game. Honestly, he put in more effort to use AI than he would have had he done...

Is AI free to say whatever it wants?

2024-09-16

Recently SCOTi answered the following controversial questions: If large language models (LLMs) like SCOTi are beginning to ‘express opinions’ on such controversial topics, then does SCOTi have the right to free speech? Who is responsible for SCOTi’s opinions and what...

Freedom of Expression and AI Censorship: Is this the end of free speech?

2024-08-05

The first amendment. Article 19. Freedom of Expression. The ability to say what you think without fear or unlawful interference is known by many names. It’s perhaps one of the most valued rights across democratic societies, but many of us...

AI and the Olympics: what’s next?

2024-07-30

Sports, an activity defined by human movement, may not appear to have much to do with AI. But if there is one thing we know about the impact of AI, is that it is pervasive. Certainly, the sports industry will...

Common sense isn’t that common, especially in AI

2024-07-24

Internet forums are rife with parents completely frustrated with their child’s apparent lack of common sense. ‘She knows she has to wash her hands after she uses the toilet, but she also washes her hands after using the shower.’ ‘He knows he...

Myth buster: will AI take over all the jobs?

2024-07-01

The World Economic Forum predicts that AI is expected to displace 85 million jobs by 2025. Yet, what is often left out of the picture is that 97 million new roles may emerge over the same period. The loss of jobs...

Where are we headed with AI and the challenges of copyright and IP laws?

2024-06-18

I was recently lucky enough to have an interesting discussion with smartR AI’s founder, CEO and engineer, Oliver King-Smith, about one of the most fascinating conundrums in the field of AI. Strict copyright and IP laws are making AI products...

Cybercrime and LLMs: Friend or Foe

2024-06-06

Cybercrime. For many, the mention of this word might raise the semi-comic image of a far-off ‘prince’ emailing vulnerable individuals to request money in exchange for grandiose rewards. But cybercrime takes many forms, is far more common than you would...

AI software ownership, evolution or revolution?

2024-05-15

For a long time, software has been exclusively owned by its producers and distributed to individuals through licensing agreements or Software as a Service (‘SaaS’). Yet, the safety concerns associated with SaaS products have led some companies, like smartR AI,...

A safe environment or an environment of fear?

2024-04-28

Worker safety has become a top priority for most companies. Technology plays a big role in improving workplace safety and it does so in all kinds of ways. But does using technology create an even bigger risk than it solves? Some...

GPT: Partnering with Edinburgh University EPCC to compare two advanced hardware setups designed for optimized parallel computation

2024-01-15

smartR AI™ and EPCC, part of the University of Edinburgh, are partnering together on a super computer trial project using the Cerebras CS-2 Wafer-Scale Engine (WSE) system. EPCC is the UK’s leading centre of Supercomputing and Data Science expertise and conducts...

Why is quality data important for AI?

2023-12-06

Put simply: there is no AI without data. Quality data is essential to the functioning of any AI program, without it the program will likely be inaccurate and unreliable. This is where the common place saying “garbage in, garbage out”...

The AI menu

2023-11-23

Two of the main causes of unhealthy diets are a lack of education and a lack of resources. Yet, a lot of individuals now have access to both and still suffer from an unhealthy diet. Why is this? And how...

What do Sherlock Holmes, a self-obsessed musical automaton, and a robotic bin have in common?

2023-10-31

What do Sherlock Holmes, a self-obsessed musical automaton and a robotic bin have in common? The TEDx University of Edinburgh conference, of course.For those of you who weren’t able to attend this weird and wonderful event, I will be covering the...

Technology and development: a recipe for disaster?

2023-10-26

AI for health is a rapidly expanding area and one of the most exciting applications is the way technology can improve healthcare provision in developing countries. By providing even the simplest resources, such as free access to online research subscriptions...

Turning the AI black box into a glass box

2023-10-18

One of the biggest difficulties with Artificial Intelligence systems is that the internal workings are often unknown to even the coders themselves. We know what we put into the AI and what comes out of it, but how AI decides...

Could the next technological development let you chat with your service animal or pet?

2023-10-04

Developments in technology are improving communication between the human and animal kingdom in several new and exciting ways. Advancements range from using AI to decode the sonar sounds of sperm whales, to enabling dogs to ask humans for...

Good vs evil robots

2023-09-16

The representations of artificial intelligence and robots in pop culture vary significantly between the Eastern and Western hemispheres. The West’s obsession with ‘evil robot’ films forms a stark contrast with the robot saviors often found in the media of the East....

Behind the scenes at smartR AI

2023-08-29

In the green and luscious medieval town of Edinburgh lies the powerhouse of AI advancements: smartR AI. Here the engineers Matthew Malek, Jonah Ramponi and Kornelija Sukyte, under the guidance of CEO and engineer Oliver King-Smith, are the driving soul...

ChatGPT: Overhyped or badly used

2023-08-01

Wouldn’t we all love a personal assistant? Someone to sort through our emails, to manage our appointments and to remind us of all the important things we need to do. Some fortunate ones can afford assistants, but most of us...

The eyes you can't hide from

2023-07-06

We go about life using passwords, pins and biometrics to protect our images, our bank details and other aspects of our personal data we feel are worthy of our protection. Yet, information like browsing patterns or images of us in...

From stone age to cutting edge tech: disparities in digital maturity across healthcare

2023-06-18

The scheduling system used by my GP is antiquated at best. To book what is usually a telephone appointment you have to phone the practice up−and it needs to be immediately on opening if you are to have any chance...

The doctor on your wrist

2023-06-05

Wearable technology doesn’t just have the potential to save lives, it is already saving lives. Take, for example, the story of a woman who was alerted to her irregular heart rhythms by her apple watch and after further tests was...

Staying alert - the alarm that saves entire regions

2023-05-22

In the year I spent living by the seashore in the north of New Zealand, I spent the nights listening to the waves and fearing the tsunami siren would go off at any second. At eight years old this felt...

The therapist without emotions

2023-05-08

In suggesting that Artificial Intelligence might be able to help us improve our mental health the first reactions I receive are often puzzled or confused looks: as if I had just asked your toaster to drive us to the airport....

How to put the care back into healthcare

2023-04-24

Consumers are increasingly dictating what they want and demand personalized services with an opportunity to shape what they consume. While personalized services and products are not a new creation, Artificial Intelligence has enabled us to implement personalization in sectors and...

Decoding Humans

2023-04-11

We build our lives not around humans, but around machines. In order to cross a road, open a door or dry our hands, we rely on pressing buttons or activating sensors so a machine can recognise and read our movements....

A world of lies: Living in the age of generative data

2023-03-29

I was sitting with a friend and former crush that I hadn’t seen in years, when he starts telling me about this amazing AI programme. “It can do anything you ask it to”, he says, “For example, I am going...

Synthetic data: the generative AI cure for medical advancements

2023-03-06

The modern-day party trick: give me any image you want to see, any at all… A painting resembling Starry Night with a hamster as the centrepiece? Voilà, Dall-e 2 can produce it. Or perhaps rather than an image, a song about how much...

Machine learning applications: an opportunity to personalize healthcare

2023-02-27

Self-driving cars, Siri and space-exploring robots. All forms of machine learning artificial intelligence (‘AI’) driving the tech revolution. By analysing vast amounts of data and identifying patterns and relationships, machine learning can make predictions based on new data and behaviour...

Olivers article "Beyond the Bottom Line: How AI is Transforming Financial Oversight" published in The Compliance Digest

The Compliance Digest by the AGRC has just published Oliver King-Smith's article on "Beyond the Bottom Line: How AI is Transforming Financial Oversight". Read about AI will play an increasingly important role in financial analysis and management. with AI...

2025-02-21

smartR AI and SCOTi in the press

This week's press release announcing smartR AI and Sovereign Systems Form Strategic Partnership to Bring SCOTi AI-Powered Solutions to New Zealand has caused a stir...we're in the news internationally! Check it out: https://www.ainews.com/p/smartr-ai-and-sovereign-systems-partner-to-bring-scoti-ai-to-new-zealand https://www.insidermedia.com/news/all/technology: View post https://www.insidermedia.com/newsletter/scotland-tuesday-18-february-2025 allpostnews.co.uk : View Post businessinthenews.co.uk : ...

2025-02-19

smartR AI and Sovereign Systems Form Strategic Partnership to Bring SCOTi AI-Powered Solutions to New Zealand

Edinburgh, February 17 2025. smartR AI™, the developer of SCOTi® AI, a revolutionary AI-powered tool, is proud to announce its partnership with Sovereign Systems, a leading technology solutions provider based in New Zealand. Stronger, Better, Together This strategic partnership brings together two...

2025-02-17

The Compliance Digest publishes smartR AI article

The Compliance Digest by the Association of Governance Risk and Compliance (AGRC) has just published our article on "Leveraging Private AI for DORA Compliance in the Banking Sector". Read about the 5 ways banks would do well to leverage...

2025-02-14

Oliver published by Thomson Reuters

Check out Oliver's latest article published by Thomson Reuters Regulatory Intelligence, "From manual to machine: how AI is streamlining compliance in financial services". In this article identidies and discusses how financial services are rethinking compliance, along with AI use cases and...

2025-02-12

Oliver at HR Minds Summit - smartR AI HR Handbook

Post a successful and interesting keynote on "Can we trust AI?" was given on the 5th February 2025, in Birmingham, Oliver has written a short guide on AI for HR. Download your copy of smartR HR Handbook for Implementing...

2025-02-11

TeckNexus publishes Oliver's article "The Evolution of AI Training Efficiency"

TeckNexus has once again published an article from Oliver, "The Evolution of AI Training Efficiency: Emerging Trends and Market Implications". Read more about how recent advancements in artificial intelligence training methodologies are challenging traditional assumptions about computational requirements and efficiency here. ...

2025-02-10

Oliver's article has been published in The Compliance Digest

Oliver's article "AI and Social Engineering Attacks: New Threats and Defences for Financial Firms" has been published in The Compliance Digest, by The Association of Governance, Risk and Compliance. First published by Thomson Reuters, this article looks into the rising-tide...

2025-02-06

Oliver King-Smith interviewed for Fireside with Founders & Leaders Podcast

AI is changing the game, but are businesses in the UK keeping up? Ever wondered if hashtags actually matter on LinkedIn? Turns out… not so much. Oliver ran the numbers using SCOTi and found that hashtags had zero impact on post...

2025-02-05

Oliver quoted in "Foresight" journal

Marc Ambasna-Jones' latest article on "What does the UK’s £14bn AI ambition mean for innovation and start-ups?" in Foresight journal has quoted Oliver. The article investigates the challenges and choices, and what next steps in AI strategy are key to...

2025-02-01

This week's SCOTi Charades winner announced

We have a winner of this last round of SCOTi Charades - Congratulations PJ W! The winning prompt is: As lunchtime approached for the company picnic the office team realized someone already ate the steak and shrimp from the fridge. Steve...

2025-01-31

Oliver's article published on Finextra

Do you know about the cobweb cycle? Intrigued? Oliver King-Smith explains the risk faced by datacenter providers if the demand for centralized datacenter compute don't materialize as expected in this article published by Finextra. The rapid changes taking place in the AI...

2025-01-30

Oliver King-Smith published on Scottish Engineering

Oliver has been active with his pen and written an article for Scottish Engineering. As an engineering driven company, we love messing around with stuff. This article takes a detailed look at how AI-powered Control Systems are revolutionising engineering performance. While...

2025-01-20

Oliver King-Smith keynote speaker at HR Minds Summit in February

Oliver has been invited to be one of the keynote speakers for the HR Minds Summit, and will be speaking on the 5th February. As an expert in AI, Oliver has been asked to talk about the topic "Can we trust...

2025-01-10

Oliver King-Smith invited to present a webinar with the AGRC in January 2025

Oliver King-Smith has been invited to present a webinar with the The Association of Governance, Risk & Compliance (AGRC), scheduled for January 21, 13-14 CET. Oliver will be talking about "The Explainable AI Advantage: Transparency in Governance, Risk, and Compliance". W𝗲 𝗲𝘅𝗽𝗹𝗼𝗿𝗲...

2025-01-10

TeckedIn webinar with Oliver on data management

On the 4th December Oliver King-Smith participated in a webinar for TeckedIn, run by Debby K, on Data Management. Check out the webinar now, and learn how AI can ingest, organize, analyze, and transform your data, with SCOTi® AI. ...

2024-12-12

Oliver was the main speaker at the Cyber Security COP, South Africa webinar.

Last month, November 20, Oliver King-Smith was the main speaker at the Cyber Security COP, Gauteng e-Gov, South Africa. Oliver presented a detailed analysis of the increasing threat posed by AI-enabled cybercrime, highlighting a notable case where a Lithuanian fraudster...

2024-12-12

Oliver speaking at the AI World Congress, London, in November

We are delighted that Oliver King-Smith, CEO and founder of smartR AI, has once again been invited to speak at the AI World Congress in London, organized by WORLD MEDIA ONLINE LTD. He has become a regular feature at this...

2024-11-27

Dive into SCOTi's latest AI game – SCOTi Charades

Get ready to unleash your creativity and win a prize! Dive into SCOTi's latest AI game – SCOTi Charades Take a look at this week's image generated by SCOTi below and think of a witty and imaginative prompt that could have...

2024-11-27

smartR AI on genai.works

smartR AI is now registered on the genai.works platform, the platform behind the Gen AI newsletter and the Steve Nouri media Find out more, and go vote for SCOTi and alertR today: SCOTi: https://genai.works/applications/scoti alertR: https://genai.works/applications/alertr ...

2024-11-19

smartR AI becomes a member of Scottish Engineering

We are delighted to announce that we are now members of the Scottish Engineering organization, Scotland's largest membership network of manufacturing and engineering businesses, covering all the key industrial supply chains. We look forward to participating in events and networking with...

2024-11-16

TeckNexus publishes smartR AI articles

TeckNexus publishes latest smartR AI articles Both Neil's Enhancing Behavioral Intelligence AI Decision Engines with SLMs: Use Cases Across Industries and Oliver's Challenging the Notion That LLMs Can’t Reason: A Case Study with Einstein’s Puzzle have been published this week on...

2024-11-12

Oliver's Einstein Puzzle article published on Finextra

Oliver King-Smith's latest article has been published on Finextra: Challenging the Notion That LLMs Can't Reason: A Case Study with Einstein's Puzzle When Apple declared that LLMs can't reason, they forgot one crucial detail: a hammer isn't meant to turn screws....

2024-11-12

smartR AI in the press

Scottish company smartR AI Awarded for AI Solutions Provider of the Year for the Second Year in a Row allpostnews.co.uk : View Post businessinthenews.co.uk : View Post city-news.co.uk : View Post dailybusinessnow.co.uk : View Post internationalbusinessnews.co.uk : View Post London Newsdesk :...

2024-11-05

Latest article published on Finextra

Neil's "Maintaining Enterprise Data Privacy in a Data-Hungry World" has been published on Finextra this week. The article discusses the challenges of maintaining data privacy in the era of large language models (LLMs) and artificial intelligence (AI). As these models...

2024-11-04

smartR AI article published on TeckNexus

Neil’s "Data, energy, people and planet: Some SLM balance in the polarized digital age" has been published on TeckNexus. SLMs offer a promising pathway towards more energy-efficient and sustainable AI. ...

2024-10-25

smartR AI Awarded for AI Solutions Provider of the Year for the Second Year in a Row

Edinburgh, October 2024. smartR AI™ is delighted to announce its recognition as the “AI Solutions Provider of the Year 2024”, awarded by the prestigious Corporate LiveWire, Innovation and Excellence Awards. smartR AI has been recognized particularly for the development of...

2024-10-25

Oliver interviewed by Humans of Fuzia

Oliver King-Smith, smartR AI founder and CEO, has had been interviewed by Humans of Fuzia. Humans of Fuzia is more than just a storytelling platform; it’s a community of changemakers, advocates, and leaders committed to building a world where women...

2024-10-25

smartR AI articles published on Finextra

Oliver’s article on green AI has been published "Lean, Mean, Green Machines: Optimizing AI for Energy Efficiency". Green AI is becoming a hot topic, read how smaller, faster, greener, cutting-edge AI models do more with less. Neil’s "Data, energy, people and...

2024-10-23

Oliver's latest article published on Thomson Reuters

Thomson Reuters Regulatory Intelligence has published Oliver's latest article, "AI and social engineering attacks: new threats and defences for financial firms" this week. Oliver King-Smith looks into the rising-tide of AI-enhanced scams, emerging AI-enabled threats, defensive strategies, and best incident...

2024-10-23

Oliver interviewed by Tech Insider podcast

smartR AI founder and CEO, Oliver King-Smith, sat down with Nick Hume recently to discuss AI, SCOTi and data privacy and security. In episode 7 of Tech Insider podcast, Oliver explores the development of SCOTi. We dive deep into: 🔍 The challenges of...

2024-10-23

Talking IoT publishes Oliver's messy data article

"Data chaos? AI to the rescue", written by Oliver King-Smith, founder and CEO of smartR AI, has been published this week by Talking IoT. This article covers strategies we use to help get data ready for projects. We're thrilled that Oliver's...

2024-10-11

Oliver King-Smith speaks at the Scotland Manufacturing & Supply Chain Conference and Exhibition in Glasgow, October 23-24, 2024

Oliver will be discussing "Unlocking Efficiency Gains in Supply Chain, Logistics & Procurement with AI", showcasing how AI can revolutionize supply chain, logistics, and procurement operations by unlocking efficiency gains. By leveraging advanced analytics and natural language processing, AI enables...

2024-10-11

Have you Signed up for our Substack Newsletter, smartR AI Insights?

Read the latest article, written by our Founder and CEO, Oliver King-Smith: Who is Seth? A journey through biblical ignorance, and sign up for more at the smartR place where you gain expert AI insights and knowledge on a regular...

2024-10-10

TeckedIn Publishes smartR AI Blog Post

Despite our rights to freedom of expression, censoring has always occurred and is in some applications expected. But is it possible that new AI technologies are taking censorship practices too far? Find out in "Freedom of Expression and AI Censorship:...

2024-10-07

Finextra Publishes smartR AI Articles

Oliver’s “Doomsday Data Drought: Data Scientist Shortage Gets Worse As Generative AI Supercharges Data” that delves into why smartR AI believes generative AI will increase the productivity of data scientists, and will lead to even more demand for data scientists....

2024-10-02

“The State of AI: Challenges, Adoption, and Future Prospects” published on Informationworth

Oliver King-Smith’s latest article discussing the complex situation where tech giants and startups face AI challenges has been published on Informationworth.com. The article examines the current state of AI through the lens of the innovation adoption cycle, exploring the challenges and...

2024-09-30

Oliver speaks on the panel at the Cyber Security in Financial Services Summit, London 16.09.2024

On the 16 September Oliver King-Smith, Neil Gentleman-Hobbs and SCOTi visited London to attend the City & Financial Global’s 10th edition of the Cyber Security in Financial Services Summit. Oliver was a part of a panel discussing the practical implications of...

2024-09-26

TeckNexus published “AI’s Reality Check”

Oliver’s article “AI’s Reality Check: When the Hype Train Hits a Brick Wall” looks at how AI projects are struggling to deliver expected benefits due to complexity, cost, time, technical challenges, and market dynamics. And how a fundamental shift in...

2024-09-23

Finextra publishes Oliver’s article “Is the End of AI Near?”

Not by a long shot. But we’re certainly witnessing the end of the AI hype bubble, and that might just be the best thing for the technology’s long-term success. The AI revolution isn’t ending – it’s just getting started. The road...

2024-09-16

Press Release: Unlock Hidden Relationships in Your Data with SCOTi’s new Graph Creator Function

Edinburgh, July 29th 2024. At the request of ex government minsters, smartR AI has developed SCOTi Graph Creator, the latest addition to the SCOTi® AI suite. Graph Creator allows organizations to trace complex relationships in unstructured data and transform those...

2024-08-06

Oliver’s take on relying on third-party AI is published on TeckedIn

Imagine fine-tuning your prompts and workflows to achieve the perfect output, only to find that a seemingly minor update has altered the AI’s tone, changed its response patterns, or even broken previously functional features. In a world where AI capabilities...

2024-08-03

Hyperight publishes smartR AI article: My Take on the EU AI Act

Free up your weekend reading by letting Oliver King-Smith break down the beast of a document that is the EU AI Act. This short and snappy piece covers the noteworthy aspects of the document from the unique perspective of the...

2024-08-03

Finextra published Oliver’s “Navigating Personal Data in LLMs: A GDPR Perspective”

Do you ever think about how much of your personal data you share with GPT-style LLMs like ChatGPT? Is it really safe? Find out in our latest article by Oliver King-Smith at: https://www.finextra.com/blogposting/26462/navigating-personal-data-in-llms-a-gdpr-perspective ...

2024-08-03

Demystifying GDPR & AI in DIGIT News

Is your personal data at risk? Oliver King-Smith’s latest article “Demystifying GDPR & AI: Safeguarding Personal Data in the Age of LLMs” talks you through the challenges. Find out why private LLMs might be the safest choice for your data...

2024-08-03

Finextra publishes Oliver’s take on the EU AI Act

2024-07-30

smartR AI article “Demystifying GDPR and AI” in Hyperight

Concerned about safeguarding personal data in the age of large language models? smartR AI has opinions, read Oliver’s latest article published in Hyperight to find out how you can protect yourself and your organization. ...

2024-07-14

FinExtra publishes smartR AI article: Decoding AI Adoption

Oliver King-Smith’s, Founder and CEO of smartR AI, article “6 Key Rules to Separate Authentic Innovation from the Hype” discussing how can you tell whether a company is a poser or the real deal has been published in their blog...

2024-07-14

TeckNexus published smartR AI article on AI and GDPR

GDPR AND AI: SAFEGUARDING PERSONAL DATA WITH LLMS Can you safely input personal data into AI models? The answer: it depends. ✨ Key Takeaways: 📚 Understanding LLMs: Training vs. Inference. 🔍 GDPR copmliance: Ensuring lawfulness, fairness, transparency, and purpose limitation. 🛡️ Mitigating...

2024-07-09

smartR AI on The Lucent Persepective Podcast

Why experienced teams are crucial for successful AI implementation! In their latest episode, Rebecca Hastings had a conversation with Oliver King-Smith, smartR AI Founder and CEO, where they discussed and uncovered the pitfalls of inexperienced AI teams and the value of...

2024-07-04

smartR AI blog posted on TeckedIn platform

TeckedIn has published smartR AI’s latest blog, “Where are we headed with AI and the challenges of copyright and IP laws?“ Pleased to see smartR AI’s Celene Sandiford's great work promoted on an international forum. ...

2024-07-04

smartR AI published on TeckedIn: Did your copilot just crash?

SaaS has been the gold standard in software for a long time, however with the AI revolution comes the evolution of software ownership. The abrupt cancellation of the CoPilot Pro GPT Builder after just three months evidences some of the...

2024-06-28

smartR AI featured in Data & Analytics Newsletter

We’re thrilled that Oliver’s article “Data chaos? AI to the rescue” on “messy data” has been featured on the Data & Analytics page and their Artificial Intelligence Newsletter, thank you. At smartR AI we always worry about data when we start...

2024-06-20

smartR AI in the press: Computer Weekly quotes Oliver on Green AI

A recent article discussing making software development greener, published by Computer Weekly, has quoted Oliver, founder and CEO of smartR AI, extensively, amongst other AI experts, on the approaches to making AI greener. Check out the article by Cliff Saran, Managing Editor...

2024-06-17

smartR AI blog features on TeckedIn platform

smartR AI’s recent blog post, Cybercrime and LLMs: Friend or Foe, has been featured on the TeckedIn platform. Teckedin.com offers organizations the shortest path to staying up on business technology. It provides hand-curated technology content from multiple sources in one place....

2024-06-17

smartR AI in the press: CEO Monthly published Oliver’s article on AI ownership

Oliver King-Smith, smartR AI’s founder and CEO, article “AI Ownership, an Evolution or Revolution?” has been published in the June 5th issue of CEO Monthly. Check out smartR AI’s advice today and see how you can ensure AI is an asset...

2024-06-06

smartR AI in the news: Oliver’s article published in Corporate Vision Magazine

In the May 30th issue of Corporate Vision Magazine, Oliver’s article “Decoding AI Adoption: 6 Key Rules to Separate Authentic Innovation from the Hype” has been published. There are 6 rules that equip investors, boards, and management to critically evaluate AI...

2024-05-31

smartR AI and Oliver published in Hyperight

Lean, Mean, Green Machines: Optimizing AI for Energy Efficiency is the latest article from smartR AI’s founder and CEO, Oliver King-Smith, and published by Hyperight. The article provides techniques and suggestions for a path to a sustainable AI future. Based on...

2024-05-24

Corporate LiveWire: Innovation and Excellence Award 2024 awarded to smartR AI

smartR AI is thrilled to have received the award: AI Solutions Provider of the Year by Corporate LiveWire. As a winner of the AI category, we will be featured in their magazine in July and attending their presentation event in...

2024-05-24

smartR AI provides insights on how AI in ERP can optimize productivity and predictivity

Adrian Bridgwater, Technology Editor for ERP Today, has published smartR AI’s CEO and founder, Oliver King-Smith, insights on how AI in ERP will drive smarter cloud cost control. Read how Oliver sees GPT models complementing ERP systems now and in the...

2024-05-18

ComputerWeekly.com publishes smartR AI’s “Cleaning up AI training & inference”

smartR AI’s CEO’s latest Green AI article, addressing the growing concerns about the rapid expansion of Artificial Intelligence and the associated power and water supply needs that come with it and what we can do to alleviate the situation, has...

2024-05-18

smartR in the press: AI’s Environmental Impact and Solutions

Check out the latest article penned by Oliver and published by TeckNexus, discussing the growing environmental challenges in AI technology and selecting technologies for sustainable AI, and how smartR AI and SCOTi® AI are aligned with green AI. SMALLER,...

2024-05-11

The Australian AI Ecosystem Discoverability Platform has discovered smartR AI and SCOTi® AI.

We are delighted to report smartR AI is now registered on the Australian AI Ecosystem Discoverability Platform with the National AI Centre, a CSIRO directory of Australian capabilities supporting business adoption of artificial intelligence technologies. Check out our listing. Thanks to...

2024-05-08

Our SCOTi has been registered!

SCOTi® AI – it’s official, it’s a registered trademark. We’re all super excited, and he’s turning somersaults! Now SCOTi is a part of this important club – even more important than the kennel club. ...

2024-05-08

Oliver to present a keynote at AI World Congress, May 30-31 2024

Oliver King-Smith, CEO and founder of smartR AI, has been invited to speak at the AI World Congress May 30-31, 2024 in London. Not only will he be a keynote speaker addressing “The AI-Powered Data Revolution: Unlocking Insights for Everyone”,...

2024-05-07

SCOTi® AI in TeckNexus

SCOTi is getting famous in the press internationally. TeckNexus introduces SCOTi. ...

2024-04-17

TeckNexus publishes Doomsday Data Drought article penned by Oliver King-Smith

smartR AI believes generative AI will increase the productivity of data scientists, and will lead to even more demand for data scientists. Check out Oliver King-Smith‘s article in TeckNexus and find out how your organization can avoid the doomsday data drought. ...

2024-04-11

SCOTi™ AI and smartR AI in the press

smartR AI Unveils SCOTi – Scotland’s Powerful, Private, and Most Loyal AI Assistant. Click on the links to see the posts. Business in the News News from Scotland UKTech News ...

2024-04-11

smartR AI in the press, with EPCC

smartR AI along with EPCC have been featured in the local Scottish and UK business and technology press this last week, featuring the AI-training trial yields and the dramatic reduction in AI training times smartR AI has experienced during the...

2024-03-12

smartR AI – Corporate Vision Award Winner, 2023

Corporate Vision has named smartR AI “Best Behavioural Intelligence-Focused AI Application Company – UK, 2023” Our winner’s profile Find us on the winners list ...

2024-02-28

Oliver’s latest article in Global Banking and Finance Review

For investors and finance, understanding whether a company uses AI properly now translates into wasting money or reaping rewards. So how can you tell whether a company is a poser or the real deal? Decoding AI adoption: 6 Key rules to...

2024-02-28

smartR AI in the media: How Banks Can Responsibly Adopt Large Language Models (LLMs)

Global Banking and Finance Review has recently published and article written by Oliver King-Smith, smartR AI’s founder and CEO, discussing the risks related to data privacy, security, and ethics of publicly available LLMs, such as chatGPT, versus private LLMs which...

2024-02-14

Double recognition: smartR AI receives two new awards

smartR AI has once again been recognized for their contribution to AI development. Corporate Vision has named smartR AI “Best Behavioural Intelligence-Focused AI Application Company – UK, 2023” Corporate LiveWire has awarded smartR AI “2024 AI Solutions Provider of the Year” We look...

2024-02-14

smartR AI in the news

AI-training trial yields impressive results with EPCC’s Cerebras CS-2. smartR AI™ and EPCC are working together on an AI trial using the Cerebras CS-2 Wafer-Scale Engine (WSE) system. The results so far have shown a dramatic reduction in AI training times....

2024-01-23

smartR AI co-operation with Edinburgh University EPCC and Cerebras

PRESS RELEASE: Edinburgh, January 15, 2024. smartR AI™ and EPCC, part of the University of Edinburgh, are partnering together on a super computer trial project using the Cerebras CS-2 Wafer-Scale Engine (WSE) system. EPCC is the UK’s leading centre of Supercomputing and...

2024-01-15

Oliver King-Smith provides advice on how to implement LLMs safely

Check out Computer Weekly’s recent article penned by our founder and CEO, Oliver King-Smith about implementing large language models safely within an enterprise IT environment – Mind the Gap: AI leaders pulling ahead as LLMs take off. Has your company fully...

2024-01-08

smartR AI to speak at the AI World Congress 2023, London, November 27-28

Oliver King-Smith, CEO and founder of smartR AI, has been invited to speak at the AI World Congress 2023 in London. Not only will he be a keynote speaker addressing how generative AI is changing the world of data analytics,...

2023-11-15

smartR AI in the media

smartR AI has been featured in the press following the award ceremony by Corporate LiveWire, Innovation and Excellence Awards 2023, for Solutions Provider of the Year, 2023. Find us in the Scottish press and UK tech news: newsfromscotland.co.uk View Post tech-user.co.uk View Post uktechnews.co.uk View Post ...

2023-10-31

Corporate Live Wire – Innovation & Excellence Awards Winners, 2023

smartR AI Awarded for AI Solutions Provider of the Year, 2023 smartR AI™ is delighted to announce its recognition as the AI Solutions Provider of the Year 2023, awarded by Corporate LiveWire, Innovation and Excellence Awards 2023. The company has been recognized...

2023-10-10

smartR AI finalist in the IET Excellence and Innovation Awards 2023

We’re very proud to announce that we’ve been chosen as a finalist for the IET Excellence and Innovation Awards 2023! We have been shortlisted in the Health Technology Award category for our innovation alertR, a behavioral intelligence-based alerting system providing speedy support and...

2023-10-04

Stronger, Smarter, Together – Partnership

We are excited to announce that Eike Consulting and smartR AI are working in partnership. Working together with great partners is the smartR way to live, and Randall Eike and Oliver King-Smith go back many many years. We’re bring visions to life to improve lives intelligently: With Eike’s...

2023-10-03

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