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“A Citizen’s Guide…” is a good read to help people understand key issues in having AI make the major impact on society that it will. More people need to realize that quickly and get governments to focus on protecting people.
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Human bias is a mix of hardwired and learned biases, some of which are sensible (such as “you should wash your hands before eating”), and others of which are plainly false (such as “atheists have no morals”). Artificial intelligence likewise suffers from both built-in and learned biases, but the mechanisms that produce AI’s built-in biases are different from the evolutionary ones that produce the psychological heuristics and biases of human reasoners.
One group of mechanisms stems from decisions about how practical problems are to be solved in AI. These decisions often incorporate programmers’ sometimes-biased expectations about how the world works. Imagine you’ve been tasked with designing a machine learning system for landlords who want to find good tenants. It’s a perfectly sensible question to ask
These questions and more are set to be debated during a series of fascinating free online events that can be viewed by anyone anywhere in the world during the inaugural Cambridge Festival, which runs from March 26 to April 4.
The inaugural Cambridge Festival brings together the hugely popular Cambridge Science Festival and the Cambridge Festival of Ideas
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The Cambridge Festival brings together the hugely popular Cambridge Science Festival and the Cambridge Festival of Ideas to host an extensive programme of over 350 events that tackle many critical global challenges affecting us all.
Coordinated by the University of Cambridge, the new festival features hundreds of prominent figures and experts in the world of science, current affairs and the arts, and has four key themes: health, environment, society and explore.