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Why Do We Need an Ethical Framework for AI?

June 18, 2018 JF Gagné
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Ethics is a topic of conversation everywhere in the AI community. Many organizations are flaunting the ethical standards that they’ve created or revamped for their organizations, trying to show that they are on the right side of history. But while it’s clear to most people that the machines should follow ethical rules, I don’t think we’ve done a good job of explaining the limitations of implementing those rules and why we still need to develop an ethical framework for machines. After all, don’t we already have ethical frameworks to use? Yes, we do, but for the behavior of people in society, not machines automating our world. A productive conversation about regulating AI will depend on us figuring out how we even translate our stated values, whatever they may be, into a language that machines can understand.  

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Canada’s AI Corridor is Maturing: The Canadian AI Ecosystem in 2018

May 1, 2018 JF Gagné
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Welcome to the now “annual” Canadian AI Ecosystem Map. What a year it’s been.

See the full report here. The report also goes to feed the excellent (and searchable!) directory at Canada.ai.

The point of creating this map was to emphasize that the strength lies in the Canadian AI Ecosystem, as opposed to just one city’s. This year, we’ve seen ties strengthen, but also some weaknesses exposed. What I see now is a corridor of cities, each remarkable in their own right, coming together into a cohesive form that is comparable in size and influence with the US East Coast or Paris and London.

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The Global AI Talent Pool Going into 2018

February 7, 2018 JF Gagné

For a table of the full list of countries and their numbers, send a request using the contact form.

I reached out for help a little while ago  and to assess the size and state of the global AI talent pool—a crucial issue for the entire industry going forward. Thank you to those of you from around the world who responded in large numbers. Your generous input has gone into a new report that we at Element AI have developed. We now have a more detailed picture of the size and characteristics of the pool of AI experts going into 2018. I see this report as a living document that will continue growing with others’ contributions. Our broadest measure of the global talent pool is 22,000 individuals: it remains clear that the fight for talent will continue into the foreseeable future. If you can help add more to this detailing of the global talent pool, you can reach me with the contact form or on Twitter.

You can see the full report here at jfgagne.ai/talent. 

Below are some of my observations on what I see happening around the world. 

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AI and The Future of Work is About Lifelong Learning

November 13, 2017 JF Gagné
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I often get asked what are the most important skills for a student to learn going into the coming decade of new AI technology. I have some ideas about why I’m asked this, but it still surprises me how desperate some people are to know the “secret” winning skills of the future.

The World Economic Forum’s own list for 2020 is basically a shuffle of their list from 2015, with complex problem solving at the top of both. And while I don’t know exactly how long it’s been around, I don’t think it’s a particularly new idea that college education is about developing critical thinking skills, learning how to learn, and being able to determine cause and effect in a complex system.

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4 Steps to Good Narrow AI

September 26, 2017 JF Gagné
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In order for our industry to start being accountable, I think we should follow four steps with the systems we are building:

  1. Make it Predictable - What is the purpose? Have you stated your intent of how you will make use of that purpose?

  2. Make it Explainable - Is it clear that you are achieving that intent? Can the user ascertain why a result happened?

  3. Make it Secure - Is the stated purpose stable? Have you tested it with some shock tests for corruptibility?

  4. Make it Transparent - Have you hit publish or made this information auditable?

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