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FutureLearn team up with Microsoft for online AI course
As many of you will know, FutureLearn is the UK Open Universities MOOC arm, run in conjunction with an international consortium of universities. But, I guess like everyone else, FutureLearn ... -
Workshop on Ai and Vocational Education as part of European Vocational Skills Week
This week is European Vocational Skills Week. And as a partner of the European Vocational Skills Week the Taccle AI project, is organising an online workshop on "Artificial Intelligence for ... -
Finishing the last reports for TACCLE4 CPD project - Handing over the torch for other ...
During the last few months I have surprised myself by producing three new reports for the ongoing EU-funded TACCLE4 CPD project. As regular readers of this blog will know, the ... -
Data Driven Science
This diagram is from a tweet by Data Driven Science (@DrivenScience). Artificial Intelligence they say, is the broad discipline of creating intelligent machines. Machine Learning refers to systems that can ... -
The State of Data 2020
One result of the Covid 19 pandemic is it seems like every day now there are free events. This week is no exception and this conference looks great. I can't ... -
Racial bias in algorithms
From the UK Open Data Institute's Week in Data newsletter This week, Twitter apologised for racial bias within its image-cropping algorithm. The feature is designed to automatically crop images to ... -
Accountability and algorithmic systems
There seems to be a growing awareness of the use and problems with algorithms - at least in the UK with what Boris Johnson called "a rogue algorithm" caused chaos ... -
Algorithmic bias explained
Yesterday, UK Prime Minister blamed last weeks fiasco with public examinations on a "mutant algorithm". This video by the Institute for Public Policy Research provides a more rational view on ... -
Understanding the changing Covid-19 labour market
Yesterday I attended a webinar organized by the UK Association of Colleges in their Labour Market Observatory Series. The subject of the webinar was Using Job Posting Analytics to understand ... -
AI and Algorithms: the UK examination debacle
This article was originally published on the Taccle AI web site. There’s a lot to think about in the ongoing debacle over exam results in the UK. A quick update ...
