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We Need Ethical Artificial Intelligence
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Danny Lines
Artificial intelligence (AI) is doing what the tech-world Cassandras have been predicting for some time: It is sending out curve balls, leaving a trail of misadventures and tricky questions around the ethics of using synthetic intelligence. Sometimes, spotting and understanding the dilemmas AI presents is easy, but often it is difficult to pin down the exact nature of the ethical questions it raises.
We need to heighten our awareness around the changes that AI demands in our thinking. If we donât, AI will trigger embarrassing situations, erode reputations and damage businesses.
Dare we call it the post-COVID world? By Casey Tonkin on Dec 21 2020 03:29 PM Print article
Coronavirus accelerated digital transformation in a way no one could have predicted 12 months ago, dragging the rest of the world head-first into the digital future we already knew was coming.
So with 2021 just around the corner, here are five areas in tech that, either despite or because of COVID-19, are worth keeping your eye on next year.
1. Natural language processing
The release of GPT-3 was a milestone for natural language processing (NLP) that seemingly flew under the radar of mainstream attention.
Sure,
the Guardian published its own AI-written essay about whether robots are going to take over the world, but in general there was a lot of other news to cover in 2020.