After 4 years and 49 episodes, my guests on Make Me Data Literate still surprise me with their answers to my questions, and where the conversation takes us. But this is all about me asking people my burning questions about their work with data (and many other things). It's time for you, our audience, to… Continue reading Ask us your Questions about Data, AI, Critical Thinking, and Education!
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ADSEI Submission to the Parliamentary Inquiry into Artificial Intelligence and Data Centres
This is the ADSEI submission to the Australian Parliamentary Inquiry into Artificial Intelligence and Data Centres. The Australian Data Science Education Institute has significant concerns about the unconstrained proliferation of data centres in Australia, as well as the unregulated and unethical implementation of Large Language Model Chatbots (LLMs) by commercial organisations. Our primary concerns centre… Continue reading ADSEI Submission to the Parliamentary Inquiry into Artificial Intelligence and Data Centres
Regulate Tech Companies, not Users
Social media companies absolve themselves of responsibility for everything. What if we didn't let them?
Pro AI, Anti-hype
The AI Hype industry wants us to believe that megascale LLMs developed and operated unethically and unsustainably are the only possible path to the future, but that's nonsense. Smaller systems designed to do one thing really, really well can be game changing. We can choose the direction we want AI to take.
It All Averages Out
The average might be useful, but it can never describe an individual.