Top-level summary: With increasing capabilities of AI systems, and established research that demonstrates how human-machine combinations operate better than each in isolation, this paper presents a timely discussion on … [Read more...] about Research summary: Using Multimodal Sensing to Improve Awareness in Human-AI Interaction
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Research summary: Different Intelligibility for Different Folks
Top-level summary: Intelligibility is a notion that is worked on by a lot of people in the technical community who seek to shed a light on the inner workings of systems that are becoming more and more complex. Especially … [Read more...] about Research summary: Different Intelligibility for Different Folks
Research summary: Integrating ethical values and economic value to steer progress in AI
Top-level summary: When pushing for adoption of ethical values and guidelines in the development and deployment of AI systems, we often face resistance by various parts of an organization with rationalizations ranging … [Read more...] about Research summary: Integrating ethical values and economic value to steer progress in AI
On the Construction of Artificial Moral Agents Agents
By Dante Fasulo (Philosophy, McGill University) This paper argues that humanity, as it stands today, should not develop artificial intelligence with the intent to produce an artificial moral agent—that is, if we … [Read more...] about On the Construction of Artificial Moral Agents Agents
Research summary: A Focus on Neural Machine Translation for African Languages
Top-level summary: Human expression has such diversity, an exemplar of which is the sheer number of languages with different semantic and syntactic rules. A predominant part of the knowledge base on the internet is in … [Read more...] about Research summary: A Focus on Neural Machine Translation for African Languages