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bcr vidcast 110: What purpose do companies serve in an AI world?
What purpose do companies serve, what value do they add, when algorithms dominate the business landscape?
Read Morebcr vidcast 109: Creativity and AI
G’day, I’m Lee Hopkins. Welcome to bcr vidcast 109. Three stories to report today: Getty Images uses AI to save busy editors time; Marks and Spencer are going to train 1,000 employees in AI and machine learning; and will AI take your creative job? Getty Images and AI Getty Images has launched a new AI…
Read Morebcr vidcast 108: 3 AI and ML predictions
G’day, I’m Lee Hopkins, and this is bcr vidcast edition 108. Three things to consider today: AI and the pharmaceutical industry; will AI kill off too many jobs? and three more predictions about our lives and how artificial intelligence and machine learning will impact them. Firstly: AI and the pharmaceutical industry. Pharmaceutical companies are adopting…
Read Morebcr vidcast 107: AI governance, what are AI and ML, and the future is not here yet
Accountability and responsibility in the AI age Vikram Mahidhar reminds us all that AI is only as good as the humans supervising it and programming it. The biases and artefacts that come out of the processing are reflective of the biases programmed in at the beginning. A program trained to recognise totalled car bodies…
Read Morebcr vidcast 106: On AI as a human right, the empathy economy, not fired by AI after all, job creation
AI as a human right Marie Johnson has written powerfully about the rights we have as humans to the potent application of AI. Speaking particularly of the disabled, she highlights a case study from a project in which she was involved. ‘Nadia’ is a government interface program that learns and speaks in a language that…
Read Morebcr vidcast 105: On machine learning, AI and customer service, and ethics in AI
G’day, I’m Lee Hopkins Today I’d like to talk about three things: ways to think about machine learning, AI and Customer Service, and ethics in AI. Machine learning Benedict Evans has written about machine learning and ways to conceptualise it. Five years into the serious use and application of machine learning and we are…
Read Morebcr vidcast 104: Dota 2 and OpenAI, getting fired by AI, and challenging plans
Artificial Intelligence has just pushed the envelope again. Not content with beating humans at single-player games like Chess and Go, and not resting on its poker-playing and Jeopardy-winning laurels, AI has now proven it can perform as a team and trounce its opposition. Researchers at OpenAI, a not-for-profit based in California, designed a team of…
Read Morebcr vidcast 103: On Google Translate and the EU getting on board the AI train
Bonjour. Je suis Lee Hopkins. There are two items I want to report today. Google Firstly, Google has just upgraded its Translate app for Android and iOS. There are two changes: Neural Machine Translation, or NMT, is now translating full sentences, taking into account context and producing a smoother translation. Before, it just translated chunks…
Read Morebcr vidcast 102: Japan to push for AI to be as relevant to primary school children as the 3 Rs
G’day, Lee Hopkins here. Just a quick video to let you know that Japan has just announced that it is going to make everyone, even primary school students, AI-literate within the next few years. The Japanese government wants primary school children to be as familiar with AI as they are with the 3Rs. Facing a…
Read Morebcr vidcast 101: On AI and business comms and meetings in the not-too-distant future
G’day, I’m Lee Hopkins. My friend and IABC colleague Adrian Cropley OAM recently put a shot across the bows of we business communicators. He asked us if we were paying attention to developments in the AI, or Artificial Intelligence, business space. Up until that moment, the meeting of AI and business comms had not occurred…
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