Scientific Advice Mechanism’s Post

The RAIR Centre will combine the efforts of the University of Adelaide Australian Institute for Machine Learning (AIML) and CSIRO's Data61 with 4 key research pillars around addressing AI misinformation, ensuring diverse AI, enabling safe AI in the real world, and improving AI explainability. “Our research will have a national and global impact as we strive for AI solutions that will enhance the lives of everyday Australians,” says AIML Director and RAIR Interim Director Simon Lucey.

Ever pondered AI's future? In a recent chat, Yuval Noah Harari, renowned author of the best-selling book "Sapiens," and Yann LeCun, Meta's esteemed chief AI scientist, engaged in a thought-provoking discussion on the future of artificial intelligence. At HireCode, we share LeCun's optimism, but also heed Harari's caution. We're all about guiding AI towards a positive path. What do you think about the future of AI? https://lnkd.in/gKTBhtkT

Practising lawyers and law teachers need to be talking about this. There are clear pitfalls in relying on AI for legal research and writing and anyone who takes shortcuts will be risking their professional future. Law students need to know this for themselves and practising lawyers need to know it for their clients.

In my latest blog post, I review Yuval Noah Harari's Nexus, which explores how information is created, curated, and used to wield power. In the age of alien intelligence (AI), Harari's historical analysis provides important context for decisions we will have to make as individuals and societies in the days ahead. https://lnkd.in/gTqcATXq

Seasons of AI Winter The term “AI Winter” is synonymous with periods characterized by a lack of interest and investment in the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI). Coined in 1984, it marks the ebb and flow of AI’s allure among the public and academic circles. This concept underlines the challenges and skepticism that have periodically plagued the AI landscape, leading to funding cuts and a decline in research activities.

TechRepublic writes "   Stanford Report: US Dominates Global AI Rankings - The United States, China, and the United Kingdom are the countries most prepared to foster AI, according to a new report by the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI." https://lnkd.in/emdr6gQX. #stanford #report #artificialintelligence #us #china #uk #hcai #techrepublic

In this experiment research teams were randomly assigned to use a custom machine-learning tool. Teams using this tool showed significant improvements in the results. However, top performers saw bigger returns whereas the low-ranked ones did not seem to get much benefit, suggesting that top scientists could better identify which of AI’s recommendations were promising. You still need to be good at what you do to take advantage of AI. https://lnkd.in/dJWbbQjw

Almost two centuries old and still evergreen! AI hype, a human-made digital malady we are forced to live with, promoted equally by some AI insiders and many AI outsiders, pushed down our throats mercilessly, sucking the air out of the room by retarding development in subfields and areas other than machine learning (inductive learning, deep leaning, chatbots and co., neural networks, transformer architectures, and all the other techniques in that subfield of AI), i.e. spreading AI Winters in AI subfields and areas out of the VC greediness and corporate profits' reach, promoting brittle but "good enough" technologies, like unreliable and pollutant chatbots, especially attractive to wishful thinkers, FOMO people, and soon-to-be-deskilled users. What a brilliant future is awaiting us *not*.

Muoti-ilmiö vai mistä on kysymys? "Papers with titles or abstracts that mention certain artificial intelligence (AI) methods are more likely to be among the top 5% most-cited works in their field for a given year than are those that don’t reference those techniques, an analysis has found . These papers also tend to receive more citations from outside of their field than do studies that don’t refer to AI terms." https://lnkd.in/dbkEYp25

Stanford University’s Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI) has released the seventh annual issue of its comprehensive AI Index report, written by an interdisciplinary team of academic and industrial experts. This edition has more content than previous editions, reflecting the rapid evolution of AI and its growing significance in our everyday lives. It examines everything from which sectors use AI the most to which country is most nervous about losing jobs to AI. But one of the most salient takeaways from the report is AI’s performance when pitted against humans. https://lnkd.in/gVPF6-in #artificialintelligence #indexreport #globalimpact #stanforduniversity #research #findings