
Sharon Richardson
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Sharon Richardson
@joiningdots
Data+AI strategist. Tweets are my own. Prefer evidence over opinion and context over generalisation. Show me the data! oh, and the skies are blue ;-)
Zurich, Switzerland Katılım Mart 2008
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Can an #AI detect emotion? Recording of my talk for the Open Data Institute along with additional soundbites joiningdots.com/2021/07/08/can…
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Planning on using this as my origin story when I eventually run for mayor of London
Hosting @haveigotnews tonight, 9pm BBC1
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Kiki's been at the Smart City Expo World Congress in Barcelona with Smart Towns Wales with colleagues from the
@WelshGovernment and several UK smart cities. Kiki had the opportunity to present the work in Wales on the Connected Places Catapult UK pavilion 👏👏👏 #smarttowns 🏴




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Roosters may have passed the mirror self-recognition test, joining a small list of animals including dolphins, elephants, magpies and some of the great apes #Echobox=1698259701-1" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">newscientist.com/article/239944…
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More of my colleagues are now switching to the social media platform BlueSky. Check it out. I’m on @susanmichie.bsky.social. I have 6 spare joining codes if you would like one - just message me.
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A reminder of the good in journalism, and why generative AI is no substitute for the human desire to tell a story.
“…Above all he was a champion of the underdog, always cheerful but relentless in pursuit of a story he thought worth telling.”
theguardian.com/environment/20…
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Another pasttime losing its sparkle in the age of AI, ““It feels different racing against a machine, because you know that the machine doesn’t get tired.”
AI algorithm outperforms humans for the first time in first-person view drone racing
theguardian.com/technology/202…
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Leveraging AI to generate garden designs for better pollination 👇
newscientist.com/article/mg2583…
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Another ‘what could possibly go wrong moment 👇
“DeepMind, the tech firm’s artificial intelligence arm, has announced it is testing a new tool that could soon become a “personal life coach”.”
theguardian.com/technology/202…
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AI2 drops biggest open dataset yet for training language models tcrn.ch/45gmBxC | by Devin Coldewey
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@markwilsonit Am afraid so too. Am over on mastodon if you’re there. The engagement there is non-existent but the same is increasingly true of here now 😔
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What Exactly Are the Economics of AI? (Sequel to What if Generative AI turned out to be a Dud?)
Now at my s u b s t a c k, with a shoutout to @om
Link below

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Would love to see regulators welcome all of these amazing women to the table, in order to understand how to regulate AI. Don't be scared to learn, welcome all of them -- they know what they're talking about!
Algorithmic Justice League@AJLUnited
“@safiyanoble, @timnitGebru, @jovialjoy , @ruchowdh , and Gangadharan have been calling for regulation for years, as soon as they saw the harm automated systems have on marginalized communities and people of color. But now that those harms could extend to the broader population, governments are finally demanding results. “ ➡️Read the full @RollingStone article By @lorenaoneil rollingstone.com/culture/cultur… #RollingStone #AIBias #AIHarms #Ai #ArtificialIntelligence #AJL #drjoybuolamwini
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What AI does well - speed and scale:
“We have captured tens of thousands of data files and thousands of hours of audio …and identified all sorts of animals from them. We couldn’t have done it at that scale using human observers.””
theguardian.com/technology/202…
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Long read and some great comments on the potential impact of generative AI on architecture theguardian.com/artanddesign/2…
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Royal Mail has begun using drones to deliver post in Orkney...
The service, using aircraft able to carry up to 6kg, is Royal Mail’s first permanent drone delivery service.
theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/a…
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AI-supported radiologists achieve same or better results whilst needing to make 44% fewer reviews of mammograms to detect presence of breast cancer.
theguardian.com/society/2023/a… #ai
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