Sustainable Dev’t In Ghana
The latest survey by the Ghana Statistical Service revealed that 42,396 agribusiness firms closed during the lockdown, with 16,091 of those firms still remaining closed. The impact of COVID-19 was more pronounced in the service and industry sectors, particularly for...
The Lack of Diversity in Datasets And Why We Should Care
There has been a noticeable lack of diverse datasets to train machine learning models, resulting in ethical harms against specific communities. AI ethics researchers are pushing for solutions that involve more transparency in model development and dataset training. Regulations on...
Abductive Learning and Artificial Intelligence: Why Can’t Machines learn like Humans?
In an oriental fable, the sons of King Serendippo travel a distant road. They come across a man who has lost a camel. Is it, they ask him, blind on one side, carrying two skins on its back, one of...
Objectivity and Ground Truth in AI
‘Ground truth’ is somewhat of a confusing machine learning buzzword. Discussions of the ground truth naturally touch on areas such as bias, representation, and objectivity, and it’s a concept worthy of discussion. One of the main pitfalls of AI is...
Predicting Crime With AI: Navigating Ethical Issues
In June 2022, a cross-discipline team of researchers at the University of Chicago created an AI model that could predict the location and rate of crime in the city with 90% accuracy. The team utilized citywide crime open data between...
AI Embodies The Bias Of Internet Content
OpenAI is a significant player in the modern artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) space. While the parent company is a non-profit, it also consists of a for-profit company that received a $1 billion investment from Microsoft in 2019....
Using AI and Machine Learning to Decipher Ancient Languages
he Sumerians inhabited Mesopotamia some 6000 years ago, the region between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, in modern-day Iraq, Kuwait, Turkey, and Syria. Mesopotamia marks humanity’s transition from small agricultural settlements to larger urban societies. The first cities were built...
What is a Human-in-the-Loop?
Machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) models still largely require the input of humans to train, tune and test models to ensure their accuracy and performance. When humans are positioned in the ML and AI loop or cycle, they...
Top 10 Books on Machine Learning and AI
Machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) are foundational technologies in today’s technologically evolved and hyper-digital era. Computers changed the world, but ML and AI are changing computers by equipping them with the ability to process complex information at unprecedented...
The Impacts of Bad AI
AI is a force of good, right? That’s what the industry must strive for, but the positive impacts of AI are far from guaranteed. AI is the hallmark technology of our era, but it’s entangled in risks, and even die-hard...