Ethics and the Importance of Being an Information Skeptic

Whenever I teach or present a session on Artificial Intelligence, I start with Ethics. We've created a site where you can quickly walk through a few of the major principles we follow at Microsoft for AI here: http://aka.ms/ai-ethics. I walk through these principles before I show how to design a Machine Learning solution, and then …

Simplifying (?) Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence is a vastly complicated topic. It's not just that it has a lot of components (because it does) it's because it isn't really a single topic. It's a surprisingly old field of study that has morphed and changed over the years. I worked with "AI Systems" in the 1970's - and even then …