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Keeping up with the data
AI as I am sure you all know by now, is largely reliant on the black gold, data, and preferably lots of it. With the speed that things are developing ... -
Does only AI make a good university?
Plans for a dedicated AI university campus in Bremen are causing a controversy. The plan is backed by a consortium of German software giant SAP, Chinese IT firm Neusoft and ... -
Developing Competences for the AI Era
UNESCO are increasingly active in the development in the use of Artificial Intelligence in Education. Next week - 7 and 8 of December they are hosting an International Forum on ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
The Taccle AI project
The European project ‘Improving the Skills and Competences of VET teachers and trainers in the age of Artificial Intelligence/ brings together partners from five countries to provide initial training and ... -
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 ...
