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Guru Banavar
The Science of AI and the Art of Social Responsibility
I am a computer scientist and engineer, inspired by the art of the possible and driven by the practice of computing applications. For decades, I’ve quantified my professional achievements using metrics like computability, performance, scalability, and usability. But the transformational nature of artificial intelligence requires new metrics of success for our profession. It is no […]
What it Will Take for Us to Trust AI
The early days of artificial intelligence (AI) have been met with some very public hand wringing. Well-respected technologists and business leaders have voiced their concerns over the (responsible) development of AI. And Hollywood’s appetite for dystopian AI narratives appears to be bottomless. This is not unusual, nor is it unreasonable. Change, technological or otherwise, always excites […]
Charting the Future of Artificial Intelligence
For decades, the world has been producing digital information at an unprecedented rate. We have digitized the history of the world’s literature and all of its medical journals, enabling wide access to troves of information. We can now understand the movements of planes, trains, automobiles, not to mention everything else from cattle to mobile phones […]