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, to transfer model ownership to its end-users. This blog will...

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 uses of technology are relatively uncontroversial and are widely...

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 research at the leading edge of High-Performance Computing and...

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” (GIGO) comes from. A lack of quality data can not...

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 can AI redefine our relationship with food? The World Health Organization defines...

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 best and strangest talks this conference had to offer....

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 for medical students, individuals are facilitated to find solutions to...

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 on the output is often a mystery, this phenomenon is...