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 SHOW NOTES:
0:00 Alan Robertshaw
1:00 Emily Gould - overview of AI historical development
2:30 first phase - 1950s Alan Turing - machines do what they are told
3:10 second phase - machine learning creating models using data and develop methods to make decisions / predictions based on that data
3:50 third phase - deep learning usually using neural networks to mimic the human brain
4:50 GANs - part of third phase that involve generator and discriminator algorithms
5:55 Obvious’ Portrait of Edmond de Belamy
6:40 Robbie Barrett’s code used by Obvious
8:40 unpredictability in the deep learning phase 
9:25 different tests applied to determine if a machine is intelligent
9:55 Turing test - machine is intelligent if you can’t tell the difference between responses by a human and a machine
10:10 Lovelace test - machine is intelligent if you can’t explain machine’s answer
11:20 ‘Alpha Go’ algorithm
13:30 uses of AI
14:20 huge training data sets
15:50 major risks with AI include copyright
17:10 privacy and data protection
17:20 transparency - deep fake
17:40 bias amplification
18:15 MIT researcher Joy Buolamwini’s work with facial analysis software
19:45 UK’s pro-innovation approach to AI
21:45 text and data mining (TDM) exception only for non-commercial use - proposal to expand to commercial use
24:25 Nov 2022 government decided not to expand TDM exception to commercial use
24:55 UK Pro-innovation Regulation of Technologies Review
26:45 A pro-innovation approach to AI regulation policy paper  - no legislation in the short term, no move to central regulatory body for AI
29:30 AI described in UK white paper as including autonomy and adaptivity
32:25 Global Summit on AI Safety
32:45 EU AI Act with risk—based approach - June 2023 signed off by Parliament; final conclusions expected late 2023; operational circa 2026
36:35 US - AI suits pending
37:00 Robbie Barrett
38:00 opt in versus opt out policy
39:20 Senate testimony regarding UK’s AI advances
40:15 US Task Force on AI Policy proposed; Privacy Consumer Protection Framework
40:45 Getty v. Stability AI suits in US and UK
41:25 2024 elections and AI
44:00 Alan Robertshaw’s case with Getty
47:05 Gould: AI voice scam
48:00 Robertshaw: AI uses
50:20 AI medical screening
53:00 consciousness
56:00 Artist Sofia Crespo’s work with natural history
56:30 Lines and Bones by artist Iskra Velitchkova
56:50 Dawn Chorus Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg
57:30 projection for how artists in the UK will address AI issues 

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