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Help or hindrance? Smart-home technology in need of a gender reboot

In the The Jetsons, the 1960s Hanna-Barbera cartoon series set in the future, Rosie the robot did the chores that nobody else cared to do – cleaning and cooking, scratching George Jetson on the back, and shooting basketball hoops with young Elroy.

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What is supervised machine learning in AI

Intelligent systems can use data to do things they weren’t originally programmed to do. With machine learning, a computer can apply rules to new situations and assess the outcome every time.
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Humanising robots: where do we draw the line?

Now is the time to discuss the ethics of interactions between humans and machines.
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Here’s why artificial intelligence needs pro-social values

We need a tech-literate population thinking differently about AI.
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Artificial intelligence and machine learning: separating the hype from reality using social research

Predictive data analytics, artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML) and automated decision-making (ADM) are gradually, almost unnoticed, entering the vocabularies of our news, and becoming part of our everyday lives.
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Reasons why we need a human-in-the-loop in AI

AI doesn’t have all the answers – we’ll always need humans in on the design.
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