Education 2.0 & 3.0

From Google searches and dating sites to detecting credit card fraud, artificial intelligence (AI) keeps finding new ways to creep into our lives. But can we trust the algorithms that drive it?

As humans, we make errors. We can have attention lapses and misinterpret information. Yet when we reassess, we can pick out our errors and correct them.

But when an AI system makes an error, it will be repeated again and again no matter how many times it looks at the same data under the same circumstances.

AI systems are trained using data that inevitably reflect the past. If a training data set contains inherent biases from past human decisions, these biases are codified and amplified by the system.

Via Elizabeth E Charles

Welcome, BERT

Your internet searches are making Google one smart cookie, thanks to artificial intelligence.

 

For quite some time, algorithms have quietly worked their way through search engines, analyzing, and ranking the keywords. This newer search-ranking system is the Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers (BERT). Bert arrived in the search room in October 2019.

 

BERT is the artificial intelligence algorithm designed to understand subtleties in language. The program’s algorithms can discriminate between the use of prepositions like “to” and correctly determine relationships between words and phrases. It reads nuances.

Via Elizabeth E Charles