The AI Paradigm Shift: Machine Learning, Automated Decision Making and Modern Society

Neil D. Lawrence

Four Seasons, Park Lane, London

AI in Three Apocraphal Quotes

Henry Ford’s Faster Horse

Embodiment Factors

bits/min billions 2,000
billion
calculations/s 		~100 a billion
embodiment 20 minutes 5 billion years

Heider and Simmel (1944)

Human Communication

For sale: baby shoes, never worn

There are three types of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics

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There are three types of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics

Benjamin Disraeli

There are three types of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics

Benjamin Disraeli 1804-1881

There are three types of lies: lies, damned lies and ‘big data’

Neil Lawrence 1972-?

Mathematical Statistics

‘Mathematical Data Science’

Evolved Relationship with Information

New Flow of Information

Evolved Relationship

Evolved Relationship

The Great AI Fallacy

\[\text{reflect} \Longleftrightarrow \text{reflex}\]

The Great AI Fallacy

The Great AI Fallacy

If AI isn’t a tool for us, then we are the tool of AI.

AutoAI: Resolve Intellectual Debt

Data Trusts: Empower People through their Data

AI@Cam

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References

Heider, F., Simmel, M., 1944. An experimental study of apparent behavior. The American Journal of Psychology 57, 243–259. https://doi.org/10.2307/1416950
Lawrence, N.D., 2017. Living together: Mind and machine intelligence. arXiv.