How the Biden administration will change the AI playing field, and what you should be doing now — With President Biden having made some important appointments recently, there’s a lot of speculation about what we can expect from his administration over the course of the next four years with respect to AI/ML and in particular, with regulating Artificial Intelligence applications — to make the technology safer, fairer and…

Transparency, explainability and trust are big and pressing topics in AI/ML today. Nobody wants to find themselves at the receiving end of a black box system that makes consequential decisions (e.g., about jobs, healthcare, citizenship, etc.), especially if those decision are unfair, biased, or just plainly not in our favor…

Recently I had the opportunity to attend the inaugural Emotion AI Conference, organized by Seth Grimes, a leading analyst and business consultant in the areas of natural language processing (NLP), text analytics, sentiment analysis and their business applications. (Seth also organized the first Text Analytics Summit 15 years ago, which…

Yesterday, I attended a webinar by the Vector Institute, a Canadian not-for-profit collaboration between leading research universities, the government, and private sector dedicated to advancing AI, machine learning, and deep learning research. The topic was “Using AI to guide re-opening of workplaces in the wake of COVID-19.” The webinar consisted…