AI News and Insights – December 2021

Saturday, 11 December, 2021

AI News and Insights – December 2021

Artificial Intelligence is one of the most important technologies of this century.

The development and application of AI technology change daily. To be ahead of the curve, I spend a lot of time analysing, filtering and distilling the latest insights for all my clients.

Here are just a few interesting AI, ML, Big data, analytics, business, and technology news articles that caught my eye this month. Please feel free to share with others.

AI in business - December 2021

Small businesses using AI
A quarter of small businesses in the US are using AI for all aspects of their business. More

Thoughts and insights – AI is not the reserve of large multinationals. There are plenty of applications where AI can have huge benefits. Please feel free to talk to me, and we can explore this further.

Manufacturing resilience with AI/ML
I had a great discussion with Paul Calver regarding harnessing the power of AI/ML in manufacturing.

AI News - December 2021

New Centre for Artificial Intelligence
A New AI institute opens in Austria. It will look at all aspects of AI research, helping push the technology further. More – Press release here. Or centre here

Thoughts and insights – Having new frontiers in AI is a must. We should keep developing ideas and technologies for the future. Any new institute is a must today.

193 countries sign up to UNESCO global agreement on AI Ethics

One hundred ninety-three countries have signed up for the UNESCO AI. Apparently, “AI is also supporting the decision-making of governments and the private sector, as well as helping combat global problems such as climate change and world hunger.” Having this policy will help reduce ethical AI issues. More here

Thoughts and insights – AI ethics is an important issue. Having a unified strategy for AI ethics is a good idea. Although it may be seen as a restriction, the unified ethics will give confidence to the industry.

United AI strategy for Arab states.

Initiatives are being implemented to create a unified AI strategy for Arab states. More here

AI Science and Research News - December 2021

AI is used to predict tsunamis.
The University of Cardiff uses AI and acoustic technology to help predict future tsunamis. More from official paper or as reported in phys.org

Thoughts and insights – Great use of the power of AI technology. They use classification and regression to process and predict vast amounts of data efficiently, quickly and accurately.

AI Technology - December 2021

AI is used to check other AI.
Chelsea Flinn of Stanford University has designed an algorithm to check her student’s algorithms. This way, she can fit many more students’ works with greater accuracy.

More here

Thoughts and insights – AI will be increasingly used in tuition and grading. The benefits can grade faster. You can spot many more aspects of coding with detailed algorithms and continually grade if needed.

Microsoft using AI for bug-checking software
Unique algorithms are being used to spot errors in software code. More

Thoughts and insights – AI is going to be central to software development. The technology can speed up and reduce development costs.

Data labelling is critical.
Good algorithm models need quality labelled data—great article on the importance of data labelling.

Thoughts and insights – Good data labelling is worth its weight in gold. Having suitable labels can reduce errors and speed up results.

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AI News and Insights – December 2021