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Helen Hastie

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
175 total appearances

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Discovery
The Life Scientific: Helen Hastie

So this is AI that will do actions in the real world like make a booking for you.

Discovery
The Life Scientific: Helen Hastie

It's been fascinating.

Discovery
The Life Scientific: Helen Hastie

It's changing so rapidly that it's quite hard to keep up.

Discovery
The Life Scientific: Helen Hastie

And universities, I think we have to find a way to advance the technology and the science within our means.

Discovery
The Life Scientific: Helen Hastie

And so we're looking at things like how we can train models on less data more efficiently.

Discovery
The Life Scientific: Helen Hastie

So there are areas that we can research, but the adoption of AI has just been blown away.

Discovery
The Life Scientific: Helen Hastie

So there are different research directions that we can go in that are going to be important for the future.

Discovery
The Life Scientific: Helen Hastie

It's true we don't have access to hundreds of millions of pounds for training really large models running on very large systems.

Discovery
The Life Scientific: Helen Hastie

But we do, for example, at Edinburgh University, we have the UK's national computer.

Discovery
The Life Scientific: Helen Hastie

And we do have access to data.

Discovery
The Life Scientific: Helen Hastie

But what's going to be important going forward is changing the paradigm of AI.

Discovery
The Life Scientific: Helen Hastie

So, for example, learning how to learn rather than just throwing more data and more compute at these models.

Discovery
The Life Scientific: Helen Hastie

There's a general definition of trust being the willingness to be vulnerable to another entity's actions.

Discovery
The Life Scientific: Helen Hastie

And this is particularly important for robots, increasing so if you can't actually see the robot.

Discovery
The Life Scientific: Helen Hastie

So an example of this is underwater robotics.

Discovery
The Life Scientific: Helen Hastie

They're very expensive robots.

Discovery
The Life Scientific: Helen Hastie

They go very deep.

Discovery
The Life Scientific: Helen Hastie

They don't.

Discovery
The Life Scientific: Helen Hastie

communicates very well.

Discovery
The Life Scientific: Helen Hastie

So this idea that you have to trust the robot to be autonomous and to complete its task.