This week:Ā When Do We Trust AIās Recommendations More Than Peopleās?, What Does It Take To Scale An AI Company? Founders And Investors Share Their Insights, Facebook, Carnegie Mellon use A.I. in hunt for renewable energy storage breakthrough, Deloitte AI head Shelby Austin to lead startup spun out of consulting giant, and much more.
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Without government intervention or accelerated evolution of negligence law, people hurt by AI may have little or no redress, according to a recent analysis.
ESAās 2020 Φ-week event kicked off this morning with a series of stimulating speeches on Digital Twin Earth, updates on Φ-sat-1, which was successfully launched into orbit earlier this month, and an exciting new initiative involving quantum computing.
Jenny Vipperman, the chief lending officer at VyStar Credit Union, among the largest U.S. credit unions, wanted to lend more money to minorities and other disadvantaged groups that historically have struggled to obtain credit. But finding a way to lend more inclusively without taking on potentially dangerous amounts of risk was difficult using standard credit scoring and the tried-and-true lending rules of thumb that VyStar had been relying on.
Austin, former managing partner of Deloitteās Omnia AI business, is now chief executive of Arteria AI, which was known as dtrax at the Canadian professional-services giant
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