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Decolonising Artificial Intelligence 7

Oct

11

2018

· Read in 6mins · 1297 words · The Artificial Intelligence we believe to be global, is far from it. It is localised. Contained. Within restricted geographies and people. As the pressure of containment builds and the kettle begins to whistle, the call sounds. How do we make global AI truly global? This call will be ...

Cognitive Machine Learning (1): Learning to Explain 1

Feb

5

2017

· Read in · 1720 words · All posts in series · is an image of the Zaamenkomst panel: one of the best remaining exemplars of rock art from the San people of Southern Africa. As soon as you see it, you are inevitably herded, like the eland in the scene, through a series of thoughts. Does it have a meaning? Why ...

Cognitive Machine Learning: Prologue 4

Oct

8

2016

· Read in · 980 words · All posts in series · of inspiration is one thing we do not lack in machine learning. This is what, for me at least, makes machine learning research such a rewarding and exciting area to work in. We gain inspiration from our traditional neighbours in statistics, signal processing and control engineering, information theory and ...

Marr's Levels of Analysis 6

Apr

29

2013

Marr's three levels of analysis promotes the idea that complex systems such as the brain, a computer or human behaviour should be understood at different levels. Marr's framework proved to be an elegant and popular way of reasoning about complex systems, and in the context of machine learning and statistics, remains an intuitive framework that ...