AI, Quantum and Sustainability: Univeristy of Luxembourg Quantum Breakfast
Last week, I attended a Quantum Breakfast - one of the very popular event series at the University of Luxembourg.
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#6 - AI-driven workforce transformation, AI in medicine, and history under our feet
In this week's issue, we dive into the impact of AI adoption on workforce transformation, discuss Utah's pioneering autonomous medical prescription pilot, and explore what the rise of AI means for our personal health.
#5 - AI sovereignty stack and AI companions for kids
This issue breaks down the AI sovereignty stack, showing why countries often start with AI models and not, for example, infrastructure investments. We also look at the UNICEF brief on kids forming emotional bonds with AI companions.
#4 - AI hallucinations in a report on AI adoption and handling inappropriate kid trends
The recent withdrawal of an AI adoption report by KPMG shows why "human-in-the-loop" protocols fail. Let's see how organisations and individuals can protect their reputations from AI pollution - and also discuss how algorithms come from screens to playgrounds and what parents/educators can do.
NIST AI RMF Map 3.2: What is the "human cost" of your AI system?
Today, I move to a sub-category that often separates the "compliant" from the truly "responsible": Map 3.2.
#3 - Fable 5, sovereign AI, and a smarter way to teach kids data privacy
If you go to any gathering right now and bring up AI, people usually talk about the same two things - forgetting a more important one.
#2 - Compliant AI deployment and protecting your kids from online abuse
Issue #2: EDIH summit in Brussels designed to help us move from AI regulation to real-world deployment - and how to protect our kids from the darker side of AI-generated media.
NIST AI RMF Decoded: Map 3.1 – Assessing Intended AI Benefits
NIST AI RMF Map 3.1: "Potential benefits of intended AI system functionality and performance are examined and documented"
#1 - The same question, two rooms
The first issue of my weekly newsletter - welcome!
Kindle and Anki for language learning
I've just learnt something that every language learner needs to know and use - Kindle + Anki (the spaced repetition app) bundle. Did you what happens every time you tap a word on your Kindle to check a definition?
Consent or manipulation?
A retail AI agent 🤖: "I've created a meal plan for the week and added 47 items to your cart totaling $287. Ready to checkout?"
My Dark Vanessa
I started listening to the audiobook one night - yes, sometimes, when I wake up in the middle of the night I choose a random fiction book and slowly drift away.
Raising humans
Parenting in the metacrisis
This post is a review of the podcast episode in which Zak Stein, just like Sir Ken Robinson, argues that our current education institutions are failing because they were designed for a world that no longer exists.
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Risk Thresholds for Frontier AI: Paper review
Paper review: how to set risk thresholds in frontier AI development?
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Moral alignment for LLM agents: Paper review
Paper review: how to ensure AI objective match ours through fine-tuning on th Prisoners' Dilemma game?
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Data quality issues as an operational risk
When assessing risks stemming from AI use in your organisation, remember that one of the major operational risks is data quality issues. Why? Poor data quality can cause incorrect decisions, inefficient operations, compliance issues, or reduced productivity. This is why it is important to assess the likelihood and impact of
2024
I have been silent for 6 months, and it has been a rollercoaster. Moving back to Europe was meant to be fun but brought a lot of darkness: a job lost, trust broken, lack of empathy and professionalism from every second person. Accepting mistakes and moving on. Parenting keeps me
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Level zero: my thoughts on Global Responsible AI Initiative launch event
On 14 July 2023, I attended the launch of the Global Responsible AI Initiative that I attended last night at Queensland AI Hub, and here is my human-generated summary.
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AI-generated children's books, creepy and harmful
YouTube Kids, a platform designed to provide kids with age-appropriate video content, is known for feeding children some low-quality and even disturbing videos, thanks to its algorithms, when not continuously controlled by a parent (and sitting next to your child when they watch YouTube often negates the whole
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Exploring the future frontiers of NLP research (paper review)
This blog post is a summary of a paper on the future of Natural Language Processing (NLP) research.
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I ran Brisbane Marathon 2023
Two days ago, 4 June 2023, I ran Brisbane Marathon, and the 4 hours 32 minutes it took me to reach the finish line now seem a bit surreal. They say you need to always remember the "why" when your body gets exhausted - usually around the 30-km
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About me
Thank you for stopping by! I am a data scientist and a computational linguist...and I have so many other other hats, too!
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NLP project #1: All they need is a nap
What do moms really want as a gift? I ran a fun NLP experiment to find out.