💬 “I think when we look at AI ethics, sometimes we feel it is a simple choice between good and bad, but the choice can be between bad and bad, or good and good. And those are the more complex conundrums where simple solutions or simple slogans aren’t…

💬 “Most AI is invisible. It’s embedded behind software systems like social media or in industrial systems. I think there’s a greater public consciousness that AI is ubiquitous, and a growing concern about what this ubiquity will mean for autonomous…

💬 “The tone at the investment conferences over the last two years has changed from everybody being super excited to get access to new sources of data, to now, much more focused and critical questions. There’s more demand for demonstrations, people…

💬 “Companies can deploy APIs to analyse digital meetings and use machine learning on the language, intonation, facial expressions, and gestures to build up a picture of all of the conversations in their enterprise. This has incredible possibilities…

💬 “When we talk about humanity, we’ve learned a lot at CloudFactory. We’ve learned that we’re all poor and that we’re all rich in different ways. And when we can pull together a huge number of diverse people who are passionate, to grow together, you…

💬 “Middleware is going to be the greatest growth area for technology in the next few years. It is where AI is going to deliver its greatest benefits because it will be the layer that allows us to stitch together all of the disparate technologies that…

💬 “Sometimes in data and in AI and data scientists, a lot of the job descriptions are quite gender-coded. So they’ll say we’re looking for Ninja. We’re looking for a rock star, we’re looking for a quarterback. And these descriptions can cloud what the…

💬 “There’s great curiosity in the data science community to learn what to do when we feel morally compromised. To help with this, there has been calls for accreditation. I think that’s a good idea, although I’m not sure who would come up with it or…

💬 “There are some AI reasoning systems and there are some data-driven learning systems and we haven’t quite cracked hybridizing them. But there are some interesting developments, in some very technical areas, which combined elements of reasoning with…

💬 “We all saw Jack Ma and Elon Musk sitting on the stage together. Next time will we see a European person there as well? But what story are they going to tell? China has their AI story, the US has theirs and maybe it seems like they are building…