Introduction at UNESCO “Harnessing Artificial Intelligence to advance Knowledge Societies and Good Governance” conference, Paris, November 15th, 2018.

1. What is AI?
ANSGAR KOENE,
HORIZON DIGITAL ECONOMY RESEARCH INSTITUTE, UNIVERSITY OF NOTTIN GHAM
15TH NOVEMBER 2018

2. Artificial Intelligence
 An artificial (i.e. human created) entity that is
intelligent
 Something that mimics intelligence (without really
being intelligent)

3. https://www.kdnuggets.com/2016/06/data-science-variable-selection-review.html

4. Machine Learning based systems
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Supervised learning based Machine Learning
= Computationally intensive statistics with
implicitly defined optimisation criteria

5. Fauxtomation
https://www.theverge.com/tldr/2018/10/3/17931924/burger-king-ai-ads-confusion-misunderstanding
Astra Taylor

6. Machine Learning (ML) Hand coded
Transparency vs. Complexity
O1=f(w1,H1,w2,H2,w3,H3)

7. Algorithmic Society: loss of human agency
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Google search =
f(PageRank, 300+ other factors)

8. Thank you
Ansgar.koene@Nottingham.ac.uk
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Open invitation to join the P7003 working group
http://sites.ieee.org/sagroups-7003/