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        Date: 2023-05-09 14:15:43+00:00
        From: Brian Randell <brian.randell@newcastle.ac.uk>
        Subject: AI and data science: Opportunities and threats

[forwarded from SIGCIS]

  Hi:

Last week a colleague of mine, Paul Watson, gave a lecture in Newcastle
University's Insights Public Lecture Series:

Title: AI and data science: Opportunities and threats.

Abstract: Vast amounts of data are being generated in every aspect of
our lives, and in every area of industry. How can we use this data to
improve the economy and society for everyone’s benefit? Data science and
AI are increasingly proposed as ways to achieve this, but what are they,
and what are their strengths and limitations? This talk will introduce
AI and data science, giving real-world examples of the opportunities and
threats that they bring with them.

Biography: Paul Watson is Director of the UK's National Innovation
Centre for Data, Professor of Computer Science at Newcastle University,
and a Fellow of the Alan Turing Institute. He began his career at
Manchester University before moving to industry to help design a product
based on his research. In 1995 he joined Newcastle University. He now
leads the National Innovation Centre for Data which plays a key role in
enabling private and public sector organisations to exploit data science
and AI. Professor Watson is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering
and received the 2015 Microsoft Jim Gray award for e-Science.

I was not able to attend, but a recording of this lecture is now
available on Youtube, at:

        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SsTTmAcZWAU

I've just watched Paul’s lecture. I strongly recommend it to you all -
not just the last section, which is highly relevant to our recent
discussions of ChatGPT as an untrustworthy aid to historical
investigations, but in fact Paul's talk in its entirety.

Cheers

Brian



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