Artificial intelligence is a technology that is a regular part of your life whether you realize it or not. In my life, I regularly use the “context-aware fill” feature in Photoshop to remove branches messing with the composition of my wildlife photographs. On long road trips, I frequently use my car’s auto-lane-keep feature to help keep my family safe and make the trip less exhausting. Almost daily, I use speech-to-text on my phone to dictate rough text that I later import into my Mac for editing. Yesterday, I queried Siri to answer a question about a favourite singer. I watch a lot of YouTube videos and some are clearly narrated by computers. Many of us have experienced “customer service” calls that involve a computer-generated voice asking “You said XYZ. Is that correct?” Search engines, weather reports, climate models, financial & insurance applications, and route planning on your favourite map app all involve some element of artificial intelligence.
The good news is that "responsible data collection" is being taught in at least one machine learning course -- Harvard-edX.org's "TinyML" certification series makes a big deal of data engineers ensuring they know where their data comes from, and that permissions are obtained when creating AI models.
The good news is that "responsible data collection" is being taught in at least one machine learning course -- Harvard-edX.org's "TinyML" certification series makes a big deal of data engineers ensuring they know where their data comes from, and that permissions are obtained when creating AI models.