Museum of AI

Preparing for a couple of upcoming talks, I’m thinking about innovative ways of explaining AI to decision makers.

1. Reframe the online event. With artificial intelligence and virtual events booming, I still see an urgent, unmet need to explain AI effectively. WFH has encouraged many to go beyond the PowerPoint webinar. But let’s not try replicating the face-to-face experience because a) it’s not possible, and b) we can create new forms of interacting that would not happen in meatspace (should we bring it back? I'm tiring of ‘virtual’ and ‘IRL’). Clever content now will give us a leg up when hybrid events start happening.

2. Avoid another hay ride. Better to engage people by challenging them and nurturing connections with a shared experience. Comedy and escape rooms are useful and desirable. But the real opportunity is attaching them to meaningful content before, during, and after: People will walk away with a deeper understanding of AI concepts ~ and a smile on their face. For instance: What should decision makers do when an AI goes off the rails? Restrict/ban its use, or repair/improve it? Pull them into a realistic, hands-on example wrapped in an appealing story.

Hear about practical ways to create state-of-the-art immersive experiences suitable for an executive audience. I invite to you to join my talk: Build a Better Virtual Tech Conference: Laugh First, Learn Later on Wednesday, December 2 @ 2:00pm Eastern. Register now for this free event. Next month I’ll share new trends in communicating AI-generated evidence.

AI poetry contest! The museum is curating a collection of poems about artificial intelligence, and we want to hear yours! Best one wins a gorgeous water bottle. Any type of poem, really - limericks are good!

Send your verse to frontdesk@museumof.ai, or tweet it, or post on Instagram, and tag @MuseumofAI #moaipoem.

To kick things off, we offer hAIku:
What is in my past / That will decide my future / Do I have a choice

Until next time,
Tracy
Executive Director

P.S. Want to host a popup? Contact us frontdesk@museumof.ai

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Correction. People and machines can work together in many ways. Key considerations are: Who decides what qualifies as an 'exception'? Who sets the guardrails? And who makes the final call? Human-AI collaboration on decision making, also known as human-in-the-loop AI or augmented intelligence, can be split into finely grained categories. Industry leaders have offered so many tables, analyses, articles, and matrices!

What examples would you find helpful in explaining augmented intelligence to your audience? With our partners, we are illustrating concrete Human+AI use cases, everything from recommending a health intervention to marketing a new TV series.

AI + Justice = ?
The museum team is organizing an online Good Question gathering to examine the pluses/minuses of artificial intelligence in the criminal justice system. Agenda items include review of pretrial risk-assessment algorithms and research on their validity. Stay tuned for your invite to attend at no charge. Who would you like to hear from? Do you want to give a talk?

Security team takeover! Finally, inspired by #hashtagTheCowboy at the National Cowboy Museum (and their funky 3D tour), we’ve gone live with the security cams watching over our AI artifacts.

Until next time,
Tracy
Executive Director

P.S. RIP Ari the standard poodle, MoAI Head of Security and beloved friend.

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Artificial intelligence has huge potential for important finance functions. Tech can overcome human weaknesses, but it can also introduce harmful algorithmic bias.

I’m very pleased to say the museum is developing immersive experiences about AI for lending, investing, and underwriting. We will explore behavioral economics, fairness, and financial outcomes: How are key players being affected? Guests will discover how people and AI can collaborate or collide. Stay tuned for dates & locations.

Museum of AI is dedicated to documenting the evolution of artificial intelligence capabilities, limitations, and impact: Capturing the whole AI story.
The museum is archiving artifacts of illustrative moments, places, and policies. Quick example: When IBM Watson responded “What is Toronto?” to a Jeopardy! question about U.S. cities. The archive is gaining steam and getting great suggestions. Let us know what you'd like to see.

Our experiential installations show how it feels to see, touch, and work with AI. We always want to maintain accessibility when choosing the props, improv comedians, puzzle parts, and funky sets for our experiences. Museum of AI has formed an advisory group to address accessibility issues: Let us know if you are interested.

Until next time,
Tracy
Executive Director

P.S. Want to host a popup? Contact us frontdesk@museumof.ai

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Photo credit: Stephanie Wolf

Photo credit: Stephanie Wolf