Lecture 2

Question 1

How does the EU think over AI?

Answer 1

• EU believes AI can be a driver of economic development/growth
• But that it can also have potential legal, socio-economic, and ethical issues
• AI Watch is in charge of monitoring the EU AI strategy
• First step: to define Artificial Intelligence

Question 2

Why is it important to agree on a definition?

Answer 2

• Provide an overview of connected research fields, policies, and industries
• Facilitate communication and knowledge transfer: build a better understanding
• Define the scope of action for government (agencies)

-Contribute to establishing a legal framework?

Question 3

What are 4 key principles in previous existing definitions?

Answer 3

1. Perception of the environment
2. Information processing
3. Decision making
4. Achievements of specific goals
   Given a particular goal, they find the best or most accurate solution

Question 4

What are solutions for AI problems?

Answer 4

• Make sure dataset is representative of the population of interest
• Develop appropriate rules, standards, metrics for data annotation
• Incorporate domain-specific knowledge:
  Which predictive features are
  important
  Which predictive features can
  introduce bias
  Which features can be acting as
  proxies and introduced bias?
  Which relevant features are omitted/missing?
  etc.