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Controlling AI
Gary Marcus: Two Models of AI Oversight — and How Things Could Go Deeply Wrong https://bit.ly/3Qnxd9A June 12, 2023 Originally published on The Road to AI We Can Trust (http://bit.ly/3juuD3j) The...
View ArticleTechnical Perspective: Sensing Interaction with Everyday Objects Using...
Most smartphones are equipped with near-field communication (NFC) tags. These tags facilitate mobile payments, public transit ticketing, garage access, logistics and shipping, inventory management,...
View ArticleCan AI Be Fair?
In recent years, there has been a boom in various applications implementing artificial intelligence systems. Nowadays, the most striking representatives of AI are chatbots. The most popular of them is...
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Let’s Be Objective about Large Language Models
Credit: Walid S. Saba Created using Generative AI Tools 1. Large Language Models: The End of History? Since the advent of the transformer and attention mechanisms [1] large language models (LLMs) have...
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Is TinyML Sustainable?
The continued growth of carbon emissions and global waste presents a great concern for our environment, increasing calls for a more sustainable future. In response, the United Nations’ (UN) 2030...
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Echoes of Intelligence
What counts is not what people actually know, but what people believe that everyone knows, and which is thus taken as a common background. — Patrizia Violi The rising popularity of AI systems...
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The Infrapolitics of Algorithmic Resistance
There is growing concern about the power algorithms play in contemporary societies, which has led to debates about how to deal with these artifacts of power.5 Regulation, governance, transparency, and...
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Machine Learning Sensors
The last decade has seen a surge in commercial applications using machine learning (ML). Similarly, marked improvements in latency and bandwidth of wireless communication have led to the rapid...
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All Photos are Fake Until Proven Real
When we look at a painting, we rarely expect it to depict reality with fidelity; we look for some meaning, aesthetic value, and possibly a message or a lasting feeling. With photography, we still...
View ArticleThat Was The Week That Was
It is conventional wisdom that technology typically outpaces the law. But the last week of October in the year 2023 may be remembered as the week when lawmakers made a real effort to outpace...
View ArticleService Robots Roll Forward
History is filled with examples of robotic devices designed to reduce, eliminate, or improve upon human labor. From washing machines to roaming vacuum cleaners, various machines have transformed the...
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Pondering the Ugly Underbelly, and Whether Images are Real
https://bit.ly/3RFrcUC December 10, 2023 I tell my computer science students that we go through proofs not to show WHAT is true, but WHY it’s true. During an interesting consultation with a graduate...
View ArticleInnovation Is Overrated: A Provocation
There is a parallel between rising economic inequality and the current wave of technological disruption in which the world is mired. Economists around the world are debating about the need to rethink...
View ArticleU.S. Copyright Office’s Questions about Generative AI
Aware of the consternation generative AI has stirred up in the last year and a half among individual authors, artists, and copyright industry sectors, the U.S. Copyright Office, on its own initiative,...
View ArticleCan Machines Be in Language?
In late 2022, large language models (LLMs) erupted into the public spotlight. Pundits were quick to claim LLMs are the next step in the path to artificial general intelligence (AGI) and even the...
View ArticleHere Come the Killer Robots
In late 2023, the United Nations General Assembly approved its first-ever resolution on autonomous weapons systems, or weapons systems powered by artificial intelligence (AI). The resolution raised...
View ArticleA Healthy Dose of AI
Diagnosing and treating medical problems is at the heart of effective healthcare. However, too often, symptoms are vague, errors occur, or people simply do not have access to adequate healthcare at...
View ArticleHow to Navigate Generative AI within the Regulatory Frameworks of Banking and...
Application of Generative AI within the strict guardrails of banking and finance is a critical endeavor that requires a delicate balance between innovation and compliance. These advanced AI systems...
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The Science of Detecting LLM-Generated Text
Recent advancements in natural language generation (NLG) technology have significantly improved the diversity, control, and quality of large language models (LLM)-generated text. A notable example is...
View ArticleHow Generative AI Fits into Knowledge Work
Since OpenAI released ChatGPT in November 2022, we have seen increased excitement about generative AI, coupled with concerns about its safety. Given this inflection point, we must pay renewed...
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