What’s ahead for 2024? Elections in some of the most influential countries in the world including the US, India, Venezuela, Russia, South Africa, Taiwan, China and the UK. And yet we have zero handle on the use of generative AI, by legitimate or illegitimate players, in manipulating the electorates in how they will vote. That’s terrifying. In a small effort to equip myself with some strategies and frameworks for how to think through the use of AI in digital product design I took this course. It’s only a start but it’s an important one. Center for Humane Technology (CHT) remind us that it is possible, and economically viable, to develop products that help humanity rather just driving engagement. To anyone who is applying AI to products that will be out in our world, I recommend looking into the work of Tristan Harris, Randima Fernando and colleagues at CHT. So, that’s my hot take for the new calendar year. What’s shaping your thinking around AI?
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Besides the obvious engineers, developers, tech innovators and product managers, people & org development experts need to be more involved as well as take an active part in the conversation about Generative AI and related technology. Understanding the HR-related products and services on the market and how they can cater your organisational needs is one aspect, but scratches the surface in my opinion. ❔ Are we as a profession really ready for the implications on our workforce, the up- and reskilling required, and the ethical/human-centric conversations that need to take place when introducing this type of technology? I admit that I have a lot to learn about this topic, and I am both excited and apprehensive about the future. In all the reading and learning I've done on the topic so far, one particular learning experience stood out, so I want to recommend it further - the course by Center for Humane Technology on "Foundations of humane technology". The most intriguing questions for me centered around: 💡 how can technology protect and respect human vulnerabilities instead of exploiting them 💡 how can we address and minimize harmful externalities (that are often overlooked for the sake of maximizing economic growth) 💡 how can we shape technology that center on key human values (and are still informed by metric but not driven by them) 💡 how can technology help us weave a stronger social fabric (instead of isolating, polarizing and spreading mistrust)
Foundations of Humane Technology • Susan Salzbrenner • Center for Humane Technology
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Helpful and thoughtful guidance from Jim Lang. The argument for speed and efficiency always makes me think of its role in Frankenstein: Victor is developing and composing deliberately, which includes thinking about complications, then for some reason called "speed" decides to disregard any concern for audience and counter-perspectives. I guide my students in a "slow reading" of this passage in a composition course and proceed to point to Victor as a rhetorical model of what not to do when composing or creating.
Higher education has long been accused of being a slow-walking animal. When it comes to our embrace of generative artificial intelligence, we should embrace that quality as a virtue. Walking slowly creates time for reflection and discussion, oft-neglected activities in a culture that prioritizes economy and efficiency. #artificialintelligence #teaching
Advice | The Case for Slow-Walking Our Use of Generative AI
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Reinforcement Learning Team Leader & BO Tech Expert @ Huawei Research London - Advisor @ Sanome - Honorary Assistant Professor at UCL - All opinions posted here are my own.
It turns out REINFORCE is a big thing again! It has been used in RLHF, and people are going crazy about what it is. Well, it is the oldest and easiest algorithm in #RL. I even had a video on it three years ago: https://lnkd.in/e9Emky2E #AI #MachineLearning
Policy Gradients Reinforcement
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Our #GenerativeAI policy development for #HigherEd article in the EDUCAUSE Review is an Editor's Pick! Shoutout to my amazing co-authors, Lance Eaton, Allison Papini, & Dana Gavin!
Cross-Campus Approaches to Building a Generative AI Policy
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Is there any topic more hot than AI for communications? Articles and opinions are flying all over the place. So, where do you start? 🏫 USC Annenberg's Relevance Report "Welcome to AI" features 35+ articles on using AI in Communications (https://lnkd.in/gzR_nCtG) Check out the article from Steve Clayton page 70 about how Microsoft is working AI into their communications processes. 👀 PRSA published The Ethical Use of AI (https://lnkd.in/gA9dk3th) with guidance from the PRSA Board of Ethics and Professional Standards on how we can, and should, use AI. Hint: never cut out the human, and our PR counsel! 💻 CRA | Admired Leadership has a blog focused on the intersection of AI and corporate communication. They predict "employees [will] become sensitized to AI as a possible originator of what they read and hear." I'll start with these resources and an encouragement that you play around with ChatGPT to understand how to build a good prompt (more on prompts next week) and the power and pitfalls of this new tool.
USC Annenberg 2024 Relevance Report
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In AI, ensuring that machine learning models are consistently reliable in production isn’t just a necessity—it’s mission-critical. I recently explored Arize-Phoenix and OpenInference, two groundbreaking tools revolutionizing AI observability and LLM inference pipelines. Arize-Phoenix is an open-source platform designed to help data scientists and engineers understand how their models behave in real time. It stands out by providing comprehensive tracing and evaluation capabilities that make addressing issues like model drift, bias, and fairness easier. It’s especially powerful for LLMs like GPT-4, allowing teams to detect anomalies and cluster problematic outputs for detailed analysis. One key feature is its support for retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) pipelines, where it traces data retrieval steps, showing exactly where things go wrong in the retrieval process. Additionally, Phoenix excels in embedding analysis, A/B dataset comparison, and anomaly detection—all critical for monitoring and refining AI systems. At the same time, OpenInference takes observability even further. OpenTelemetry enables deep tracing of LLM workflows, offering insights into how models interact with external tools and APIs. This is vital when debugging issues like hallucinations or unexpected outputs, making it easier to trace problems to their root cause. What’s really exciting is its ability to instrument complex machine learning frameworks (e.g., LangChain, LlamaIndex, and Bedrock) and monitor LLMs across the entire execution path. For anyone involved in MLOps or data science, these tools make monitoring, troubleshooting, and optimizing models in production significantly easier. Phoenix also helps you track prompt templates and other important LLM parameters, allowing teams to iterate on model behavior efficiently. I’m genuinely excited about the direction these technologies are taking. They’re pushing us closer to a world where AI models aren’t just functional, but also accountable and ethical. Have you worked with Arize-Phoenix or OpenInference in your workflows yet? How do you handle observability in your AI projects? #AI #MLOps #ModelObservability #DataScience #ArizePhoenix #OpenInference #LLMs
Introducing Arize-Phoenix and OpenInference
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Read library expert Dr. Lauren Hays on AI Policies in Libraries. Register for her companion webinar, Generative AI: Considerations for Special Librarians Wednesday, July 10, 2024. #librarians #librarian #library #infopros #iamalibrarian #SpecialCollections #academic #research #librarians #librarylife #librarianship #infopros #informationprofessionals #academiclibrarians
AI Policies in Libraries | Lucidea
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An insightful interview about humans' history with technology. I look forward to the book. Key quote: "There's a double danger to anthropomorphism. The first is that we treat machines like people, and project personalities, intentions and thoughts onto artificial intelligences. Although these systems are extraordinarily sophisticated, they don't possess anything like the human sense. And it's very dangerous to act as though they do. For a start, they don't have a consistent worldview; they are miraculously brilliant forms of autocomplete, working on pattern recognition, working on prediction." #machine #intelligence #technology #human #evolution https://lnkd.in/e8yavsX4
Why we have co-evolved with technology
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Having started my working years in a Parks & Recreation Department, it is so fulfilling to be able to support communities to make effective decisions about the public spaces and infrastructure that people leverage most in their daily lives. This link below is such a wonderfully written article from Anthony Thomas and Luz Reyes with the City of Plantation, Florida. It describes how they are leveraging Placer.ai to make data driven decisions to save time, know where to best allocate resources, for grants and to bring to programming and budgeting conversations. "There is no denying the impact and influence that artificial intelligence has in our daily reality. Finding ways to coexist and implement this technology for good will continue to strengthen and enhance what we’re capable of. In our profession, having accurate data matters. At times, this data may very well define our worth and viability to decision-makers that deal with competing budget priorities from multiple city/town agencies." Thank you Plantation Parks & Recreation team! Full article here ➡ https://lnkd.in/ejFkUReq
The Use of Artificial Intelligence in Parks
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Can't wait to read tech philosopher Tom Chatfield's new book, "Wise Animals: How Technology Made Us What We Are", which is published this Thursday 22nd February by Picador. For me, Tom is one of the most thoughtful and nuanced thinkers on how society, politics and business are impacted by technology, and how to thrive in the digital age. As well as being a brilliant #keynotespeaker, he can also run Critical Thinking workshops which will furnish your workforce and leaders with the crucial human skills required to thrive in the era of AI. If you'd like to find out more about Tom's speaking and workshops, drop me a line. https://lnkd.in/evA_CFNi
Tom Chatfield publishes Wise Animals - VBQ Speakers | Speaker Agency | Keynote & Motivational Speakers
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