Nine Cities Set Standards for Transparent use of AI

Nine cities, cooperating through the Eurocities network, have developed a free to use open-source ‘data schema’ for algorithm registers in cities. The data schema, which sets common guidelines on the information to be collected on algorithms and their use by a city, supports the responsible use of AI and puts people at the heart of […]

The Reproducibility Issues that are Haunting Health-Care AI

This technology feature published in Nature by Emily Sohn discusses how despite the rolling out of numerous AI tools for diagnosis and monitoring, their reliability is questionable. To read the full article, please click on this link.

The AI Act: Promoting Safe AI That Respects Fundamental Rights

The Council of EU has adopted its common position (‘general approach’) on the Artificial Intelligence Act. Its aim is to ensure that artificial intelligence (AI) systems placed on the EU market and used in the Union are safe and respect existing law on fundamental rights and Union values. The draft regulation presented by the Commission in April 2021 is a […]

Illustrating Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback

Language models have shown impressive capabilities in the past few years by generating diverse and compelling text from human input prompts. However, what makes a “good” text is inherently hard to define as it is subjective and context dependent. There are many applications such as writing stories where you want creativity, pieces of informative text […]

McKinsey’s Global Survey On State of AI in 2022

The results of this year’s McKinsey Global Survey on AI show the expansion of the technology’s use since we began tracking it five years ago, but with a nuanced picture underneath. Adoption has more than doubled since 2017, though the proportion of organizations using AI has plateaued between 50 and 60 percent for the past few years. […]