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It was a pleasure to welcome the chair of Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence, Malcolm Byrne TD, to deliver the opening remarks this morning at the RIA conference on 'Artificial Intelligence and education'.
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Join us in the Royal Irish Academy and online for a conference exploring the future of AI and education across the post-primary and higher education sectors on Tuesday 23 September. Book your tickets now. www.tickettailor.com/events/royalirishacademy...
How is #AI impacting jobs?
Dr Andrew Hines, Assistant Professor at UCD School of Computer Science, joined Claire Byrne again on RTÉ Radio One to discuss the evolving impact of AI on the workforce.
www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...
I spoke this morning to Claire Byrne on @rteradio1.bsky.social about the newly formed Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence. Big tech will lobby but they should seek out and listen carefully to the voices of our society on what we want Ireland to look like as a result of the AI revolution.
Congratulations to our finalists in the 2024 UCD Research Impact Case Study Competition for ground-breaking research. "Sound check: audio quality technologies for entertainment, communication, and accessibility" showcases the work of @andrewhines.bsky.social www.ucd.ie/research/imp...
OK Go have made a lot of great videos for their music over the years. Remember This Too Shall Pass (15 years ago?!) and Here It Goes Again? The latest A Stone Only Rolls Downhill is another classic. www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOEU...
SCOREQ presents a novel contrastive regression technique for speech quality prediction. Our paper is presented by Alessandro Ragano at #NeurIPS in Vancouver this week.
Paper arxiv.org/pdf/2410.06675
Code github.com/alessandroragano/scoreq @insightcentre.bsky.social @adaptcentre.bsky.social
To finish - I think these apps are of great benefit and help people to parse manifestos easily and promote democracy. But we need to be vigilant that new technologies do not introduce unexpected opportunities to skew opinions through manipulation or poll design. 6/6
A screenshot of all the candidate data. The noisy patch of data two thirds of the way down is independent candidates.
But, this highlights how a tool to promote democracy could be leveraged. As an aside, this screenshot highlights all the #GE24 candidates responses by colour. The "noisy" patch two thirds of the way down captures the wide ranging opinions of independent candidates. 5/6
In theory, with 32 questions, candidates might aim to avoid selecting "agree" or "disagree" to prevent scoring 0 on those questions. With an adjusted scoring: Agree (+1), Neutral (0), and Disagree (-1), no strategy would candidates. We don't believe candidates tried to game the app but... 4/6
Graph of a count of Neutral answers (neither agree nor disagree) for all candidates coloured and grouped by party
Or if a candidate, through understanding the scoring system, could even try to game the system? Candidates could optimise their scores based on the proximity rules by maximise neural answers. 3/6
We evaluated the candidate responses across all constituencies and computed the average number of neutral responses per party, and this is what we observed. We were curious about the effect of the scoring system and whether it promotes outcomes that reflect voter preferences. 2/6
A graph showing the percentage of neural answers across all candidates aggregated by party.
Could "sitting on the fence" for some policies be a strategy to attract floating voters? whichcandidate.ie and Vote Smart tools have been popular with voters in #GE24. Some voters we surprised at unexpected matches. But why? WhichCandidate.ie uses a four-option preference system. #ge #GEIreland 1/6
This article to was written almost 2 years ago by @labhaoisenif.bsky.social and me to raise awareness in the legal profession but the risks called out are still as relevant today. Even if you fine-tune and deploy a model in-house it has still “learned” from foundational data out of your control.
Animated graphic of Irish Law Gazette article from April 2023 issue called “Cool for CHATS” about using ChatGPT in the legal profession.
“Even if the use of ChatGPT becomes an accepted practice within the [legal] profession, this will not necessarily provide a full defence to a negligence claim”- Irish Law Gazette, April 2023. Relying on LLMs without oversight remains an issue for all professionals. www.lawsociety.ie/globalassets...
Prof Feely at on stage at podium with signer live signing beside the podium.
Inclusion and Universal Design at the forefront for the UCD Dublin 2030 Strategy: Breaking Boundaries. Ambitious plans in #AI, carbon neutrality and student experience also included. Strategy implementation visible with inclusive signing for University President @orlafeely.bsky.social #udl
