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- Is AI free to say whatever it wants?Large Language Models are beginning to ‘express opinions’ on controversial topics. But do they have the right to free speech? What happens if an AI defames someone?
- Freedom of Expression and AI Censorship: Is this the end of free speech?The first amendment. Article 19. Freedom of Expression. The ability to say what you think without fear or unlawful interference… Read more: Freedom of Expression and AI Censorship: Is this the end of free speech?
- AI and the Olympics: what’s next?Sports, an activity defined by human movement, may not appear to have much to do with AI. But if there… Read more: AI and the Olympics: what’s next?
- Common sense isn’t that common, especially in AIInternet forums are rife with parents completely frustrated with their child’s apparent lack of common sense. ‘She knows she has… Read more: Common sense isn’t that common, especially in AI
- Myth buster: will AI take over all the jobs?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 may emerge
- Where are we headed with AI and the challenges of copyright and IP laws?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 more biased
- Cybercrime and LLMs: Friend or FoeCybercrime. 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
- AI software ownership, evolution or revolution?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
- A safe environment or an environment of fear?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?
- GPT: PARTNERING WITH EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY EPCC TO COMPARE TWO ADVANCED HARDWARE SETUPS DESIGNED FOR OPTIMIZED PARALLEL COMPUTATIONsmartR 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.
- WHY IS QUALITY DATA IMPORTANT FOR AI?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.
- THE AI MENUTwo 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?
- WHAT DO SHERLOCK HOLMES, A SELF-OBSESSED MUSICAL AUTOMATON AND A ROBOTIC BIN HAVE IN COMMON?What do Sherlock Holmes, a self-obsessed musical automaton and a robotic bin have in common? The TEDx University of Edinburgh conference, of course.
- TECHNOLOGY AND DEVELOPMENT: A RECIPE FOR DISASTER?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 local health issues
- TURNING THE AI BLACK BOX INTO A GLASS BOXOne 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 known as the black box problem.
- COULD THE NEXT TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT LET YOU CHAT WITH YOUR SERVICE ANIMAL OR PET?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 help, and vice versa.
- GOOD VS EVIL ROBOTSThe 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. Countries in Asia, such as Japan, positively portray technology in their movies, books and films. These optimistic depictions are consequently reflected in the public and regulatory stance on technology: welcoming innovation and progress over restrictions and caution.
- BEHIND THE SCENES AT SMARTR AIIn 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 behind the companies’ inspirations, aspirations and, of course, dedication to finding the optimal AI solutions for every client.
- CHATGPT: OVERHYPED OR BADLY USED?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 simply have to go without.
- THE EYES YOU CAN’T HIDE FROMWe 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 public spaces often don’t cross our minds as a privacy concern.
- FROM STONE AGE TO CUTTING EDGE TECH: DISPARITIES IN DIGITAL MATURITY ACROSS HEALTHCAREThe 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 of a phone consultation on the same day, patients are given vague appointment times (e.g. sometime in the afternoon), there is no reminder system and if an appointment is missed there is no prompt for the patient or the GP to reschedule.
- THE DOCTOR ON YOUR WRISTWearable 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 diagnosed with a heart tumor.
- STAYING ALERT – THE ALARM THAT SAVES ENTIRE REGIONSIn 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 like the scariest idea imaginable, but years later the thought of having no early warning system is much more frightening.
- THE THERAPIST WITHOUT EMOTIONSIn 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 can a programme with no true understanding of emotions help us de-code our own?
- HOW TO PUT THE CARE BACK INTO HEALTHCAREConsumers 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 at a scale not thought possible before.
- DECODING HUMANSWe 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 DATAI 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 to ask it to write a poem about you and I.”
- SYNTHETIC DATA: THE GENERATIVE AI CURE FOR MEDICAL ADVANCEMENTSThe 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.
- MACHINE LEARNING APPLICATIONS: AN OPPORTUNITY TO PERSONALIZE HEALTHCARESelf-driving cars, Siri and space-exploring robots. All forms of machine learning artificial intelligence (‘AI’) driving the tech revolution.