Ethics and robotics. A match made in heaven for risk management?
If your business uses third parties to support core operations (and most do, from SMEs to corporates), you’ll know they need to access essential data. Without this, they can’t deliver the services you require Therefore, alongside this new relationship between you and your third party suppliers, comes a new responsibility for you. You now have […]
The Facial Recognition Problem: Why Companies Should be Striving for ‘Imperfect’ AI
What would you say if I told you that ‘Imperfect’ artificial intelligence (AI) can do more for your business than facial recognition ever will? Your response might be to suggest that facial recognition is needed for 100% accuracy in data insights, and you probably think that this is important for keeping up with the competition. […]
How advanced AI tools can give organisations a holistic understanding of their data and improve compliance
In many ways, compliance is the cost of doing business It doesn’t generate revenue, but it is an essential part of operating effectively as a business today. Whether it’s industry specific regulations, or the standout regulation of our time—GDPR—we are all acutely aware of the damage, both reputational and financial, that non-compliance can cause. GDPR […]
Synthetic data is the renewable source we need to accelerate the AI industry
It takes an astonishing 20 weeks to gather and annotate the 100,000 real-world images necessary to train a visual AI system to see and understand the world as humans If you started annotating today, your new year’s resolutions will have comfortably been made and broken by the time you finish. And that’s just for something […]
The Evolving Role of AI in RPM Technology
The term Artificial Intelligence (AI) tends to conjure images of super futuristic technology where human workers are ultimately replaced But in reality, AI will likely serve as a way to augment and support the capabilities of highly specialized human experts. AI reflects a wide range of analytic methods, some of which are already well established, […]
UK AI strategy at risk unless diversity and data literacy taken seriously
The UK’s newly launched national strategy will help keep the UK competitive as AI transforms businesses and jobs The power of AI to drive growth and innovation is clear, evidenced by the McKinsey Global Survey on AI that suggests that organisations are using AI as a tool for generating value, increasingly, in the form of […]
The strange bedfellows of AI and ethics
Over the last decade, we have heard a lot of doom-saying about how artificial intelligence (AI) would result in the loss of huge numbers of jobs However, the picture (across both public and private sectors) is now starting to look not only more nuanced but also more positive. A 2017 report from consultancy PWC suggested that embedding AI across all […]
Why humans must be at the forefront of the future of work
Throughout human history, workers have thrived on ingenuity and invention, which has led us to maximise the utility of resources around us in pursuit of productivity and efficiency Even today technology continues to evolve, and in recent times that innovation has delivered us intelligent technologies including AI, robotics, and automation. Once the stuff of science fiction, […]
AI: Preventing a Frankenstein’s monster
One of the key lessons taught by Mary Shelley’s infamous story of Frankenstein’s monster is that things aren’t always greater than the sum of their parts, regardless of the quality of the parts themselves An altogether less visceral but equally composition-based process goes into building today’s artificial intelligence (AI) platforms. One of the most powerful […]
AI can greatly enhance employee wellbeing, but is it always ethical?
The issue of how artificial intelligence (AI) should be used by companies for HR purposes is firmly back under the spotlight, with the Trades Union Congress (TUC) calling for regulation to be updated in order to keep pace with the rapid advances made in AI capabilities in recent years Chief among these concerns is the […]