Microsoft Cloud Computing Research Centre 3rd Annual Symposium, 8th September 2016 Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, and Human Data Interaction Jon Crowcroft jon.crowcroft@cl.cam.ac.uk

Artificial Intelligence (AI) / Machine Learning (ML) Old story of strong AI v. weak AI Most recent headline successes are weak AI NLP, ML, Stats at scale PCA & Clustering Pattern recognition Model inferencing….

AI & Human There’s a lot of difference between ML & strong AI Replacing human intelligence is a ways off according to many experts Despite the recent hyped success in Go, still just an NN (and recall, chess players really aren’t strong AIs) Strong AI gives rise to concern about existential threat c.f. Dune (1965), Colossus (1966) or Terminator (1984) But we don’t have to go that far to foresee problems…

ML & Human But ML already gives us pause for thought about how it interacts with human domain Just as there was a transition from early human computors… ....to digital computation Also human, accountants, auditors, quants, actuaries, mad men... …to analytics And this has widespread societal consequences

Human Data Interaction (HDI) Agency Legibility Negotiability Present in GDPR… For more, see: ‘Human-Data Interaction: The Human Face of the Data-Driven Society’ http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2508051

Conclusions It’s a minefield Concentrating on ML today, however we will have a brief discussion later on AI/HDI “The future is already here, it is just unevenly distributed”, William Gibson (The Economist, 2001) So “The proper study of ethics, law & ML is no more nor less than the proper study of humans, ethics and law” – me, just now

Microsoft Cloud Computing Research Centre 3rd Annual Symposium, 8th September 2016 Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, and Human Data Interaction Jon Crowcroft jon.crowcroft@cl.cam.ac.uk