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. […]

AI Models Capable of Captioning Images

Salesforce has launched a new model called BLIP which can caption images, visual question-answering, and image-text matching. To learn more, please read the LinkedIn post by Younes Belkada. You can also read the original paper here, or play with the model yourself by clicking here.

EU AI Act: Council of EU Calls for Promoting Safe AI that Respects Fundamental Rights

On 6th December 2022, the Council 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 […]

Explaining Decisions Made with AI

Murat Durmu, writes about the new book from Information Commissioner’s Office and The Alan Turing Institute which is called “Explaining Decisions Made with AI”. To read more about this post and the book, please follow this link.

GPAI 2022 Minister’s Declaration

The Global Partnership on AI has published the GPAI 2022 Minister’s Declaration in Tokyo on November 23rd 2022. Please read the declaration here.

AI IN eHEALTH: Human Autonomy, Data Governance and Privacy in Healthcare

A new book in the Cambridge Bioethics and Law series, called AI in eHealth: Human Autonomy, Data Governance and Privacy in Healthcare is just out. It is edited by Marcelo Corrales Compagnucci, Michael Lowery Wilson, Mark Fenwick, Nikolaus Fort and Till Brnighausen. The description of the book says: “The emergence of digital platforms and the […]