Stealing your digital working memory
In a growing trend for acquiring personal data for third party benefits, as described by surveillance capitalism, apps have been stealing the contents of your device’s accessible working memory*, the clipboard.
Data Stories in Space
This is an interview for IBM’s SpacePod podcast series, discussing the impact of data and technology on spatial intelligence, with thoughts about the effect the current COVID-19 pandemic is having on our relationship with space.
COVID-19: Different Strokes
This is a part of a series of posts analysing the data being published about the spread of COVID-19. The focus is on the cumulative number of deaths reported. If you find such data upsetting, please do not view this post.
COVID-19: Daily Updates
This post provided a daily update of COVID-19 data shared by John Hopkins University. It shows the trending lines for countries with the highest number of reported deaths and summarises key data changes up to 1 May 2020
COVID-19: 28 days later…
This article contains visuals regarding the global impact of the COVID-19 virus during its initial spread.
AI Procurement Guidelines
Should we be recruiting instead of procuring AI? What is the lifecycle for an AI product or service? Who is responsible for unexpected outcomes? These were some of the challenges discussed at a recent workshop… Read More
How to create a better AI
How can we create a better artificial intelligence? By being aware of the flaws in the data, theories and objectives we are using to build current AIs…
(Failing) To Detect Emotions…
When we get machines to detect human emotions, what are they ‘seeing’? Is it the emotion we feel inside, or the emotion we are expressing to the outside world? The two can be very different.. and both can be difficult to ‘read’.
Is the use of AI dehumanising behaviour?
Is the use of machines to evaluate and predict human behaviour a de-humanising act? Should a birth-to-death record of our actions be used in judgement throughout life? How about through generations…?
Machine and Deep Learning Limits
If decisions are to be delegated to artificially intelligent machines, we need to appreciate the limits of intelligence without cognition
Joining Dots 