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The Foil podcast discusses the data agewhat it means for you and what it could mean for us all.

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The Foil podcast discusses the data agewhat it means for you and what it could mean for us all. Kristi Mansfield and Adam Peaston talk with leaders in the fields of data science, machine learning, artificial intelligence, public policy and social change about the power of data as a tool to benefit society. We also discuss the opportunities and risks, and how we can deal with them.www.thefoil.aiwww.seerdata.ai Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Diversity for AI
Episode 20
Tuesday, 14 June, 2022

Steve Nouri is the Founder of AI4Diversity, a non-profit global initiative that engages and educated diverse communities about AI to benefit society, and Founder and Chair of Hackmakers a global hackathon bringing hackers together to collaborate on impactful innovation challenges. Steve is a well-known AI influencer with a social media following of 750k+ people.Steve shares his journey from software developer to becoming the Head of Data Science at CSIRO’s Data61 and the Australian Computer Society.Steve shares what his followers are interested in hearing about right now. We discuss a variety of industries that are being disrupted and the AI technologies driving that disruption, from autonomous drones to large language models. Steve describes the introduction of bias to these systems through the data they are trained on, and highlights this as a risk.Steve discusses the introduction of a data-centric approach to machine learning, as opposed to the more traditional model-centric approach. We ask Steve to weigh in on the trade-off between accuracy and fairness in application of AI to society.Steve introduces and discusses the efforts of AI4Diversity, and the importance of having diverse teams involved in the development of AI.www.ai4diversity.orgwww.hackmakers.comseerdata.ai Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.