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Why AI ethics needs to address AI literacy, not just bias

All the sessions from Transform 2021 are available on-demand now. Watch now. When you hear about AI ethics, it’s mostly about bias. But Noelle Silver, a winner of VentureBeat’s Women in AI responsibility and ethics award, has dedicated herself to an often overlooked part of the responsible AI equation: AI literacy. “That’s my vision, is that we really increase literacy across the…
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AI Weekly: The road to ethical adoption of AI

All the sessions from Transform 2021 are available on-demand now. Watch now. As new principles emerge to guide the development ethical, safe, and inclusive AI, the industry faces self-inflicted challenges. Increasingly, there are many sets of guidelines — the…
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KeepTruckin uses Ambarella AI chips to monitor truck drivers

All the sessions from Transform 2021 are available on-demand now. Watch now. KeepTruckin, a fleet management company, said today it will use Ambarella AI processors in its dashboard camera to monitor both road conditions and truck driver awareness. KeepTruckin will use the chips in its AI Dashcam, which can signal alerts if a driver is unaware of an upcoming hazard, or if the driver is simply…
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AI datasets are prone to mismanagement, study finds

All the sessions from Transform 2021 are available on-demand now. Watch now. Public datasets like Duke University’s DukeMTMC are often used to train, test, and fine-tune machine learning algorithms that make their way into production, sometimes with controversial…
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Audit finds gender and age bias in OpenAI’s CLIP model

All the sessions from Transform 2021 are available on-demand now. Watch now. In January, OpenAI released Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP), an AI model trained to recognize a range of visual concepts in images and associate them with their names. CLIP performs quite well on classification tasks — for instance, it can caption an image of a dog “a photo of a dog.” But according…
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Deepbrain boosts AI-powered virtual avatars with $44M raise

All the sessions from Transform 2021 are available on-demand now. Watch now. Deepbrain AI (formerly Moneybrain), a conversational AI startup based in Seoul, South Korea, has raised $44 million in a series B round led by Korea Development Bank at a post-money valuation of $180 million. The capital will be used to expand the company’s customer base and operations globally, CEO Eric Jang said in…
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