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Published April 25, 2024 | Version v6
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AI is not the problem - thinking about outcomes

Creators

  • 1. ROR icon University of Bristol
  • 2. The Turing Way
  • 3. ROR icon The Alan Turing Institute

Description

Talk given at the AESIS Open Science & Societal Impact conference 2024 (in file `Hsing Open Science and Societal Impact talk 2024-04-25.pptx`). This was followed by a tweaked version that relates it to reproducibility at the Reproducibility by Design symposium at the University of Bristol on 26 June 2024 (in file `Hsing reproducibility symposium talk 2024-06-26.pptx`). 

Key takeaways: 

  1. Words matter, having clear definitions for terms like "AI" and "open source AI" is necessary but insufficient; 
  2. We should adopt an outcomes-based approach to thinking about AI issues; 
  3. With the understanding that AI is (very often) not the problem.

In addition to the slides and video recording here, the list of references, transcript, additional resources, and notes are published here: 

https://write.as/naclscrg/talk-ai-is-not-the-problem

The video recording of the April 2024 talk can also be viewed on the Internet Archive: 

https://archive.org/details/AI-is-not-the-problem-2024-04-25

Technical info (English)

The open source font Metropolis is embedded in the attached presentation slides, which are saved with Microsoft® PowerPoint® LTSC 2021 (version 2108 build 16.0.14332.20678) in the OOXML Strict format (file extension .pptx). Users of other presentation software may need to install this font in their system before opening and remixing this presentation. The transcript for each slide is in the presenter notes.

The video recording (file extension `.mkv`) is encoded in H264 (video) and AAC (audio) and can be viewed in a video player such as the open source VLC. Video subtitles are separately saved in the SRT file, generated with the open source Whisper.cpp tool and its open-ish `medium.en` model. These generated subtitles have typos which are corrected in the transcript linked to above.

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Related works

Is supplemented by
Other: https://write.as/naclscrg/talk-ai-is-not-the-problem (URL)
Video/Audio: https://archive.org/details/AI-is-not-the-problem-2024-04-25 (URL)

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Repository URL
https://github.com/the-turing-way/the-turing-way/issues/3598