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How is AI being used in healthcare?
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How is AI being used in healthcare?

We often hear about the potential for AI in healthcare, or how it could transform organisations like the UK’s National Health Service.

Is generative AI a threat to creative industries?
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Is generative AI a threat to creative industries?

The AI ethics debate: does generative AI harm creative industries? Artists are worried that DALL-E could put them out of a job.

Will AI replace doctors, lawyers, writers, engineers, or radiologists?
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Will AI replace doctors, lawyers, writers, engineers, or radiologists?

In 2016, the British computer scientist and Turing Award winner Geoffrey Hinton stated: We should stop training radiologists now. It’s just completely obvious that within five years, deep learning is going to do better than radiologists.

The Impact of AI in the Legal Industry
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The Impact of AI in the Legal Industry

We examine the potential influence of machine learning and AI on the legal industry. AI has transformed a number of industries but has not yet had a disruptive impact on the legal industry.

Harmony reaches final of Wellcome Trust Data Prize
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Harmony reaches final of Wellcome Trust Data Prize

We are excited to announce that our data harmonisation project Harmony has reached the final round of the Wellcome Data Prize in Mental Health.

Two revolutions 200 years apart: the Data Revolution and the Industrial Revolution
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Two revolutions 200 years apart: the Data Revolution and the Industrial Revolution

Because of the extensive use of technology, and the division of labour, the work of the average gig economy worker has lost all individual character, and, consequently, all charm for the employee.

AI in HR: Transforming the future of work
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AI in HR: Transforming the future of work

The impact of AI on human resources The world of work is rapidly changing, both due to traditional data science practices being adopted by more organisations, and due to the increasing popularity of generative AI tools such as ChatGPT, and Google’s BARD among non-technical workers.

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Insolvency Bot: legal NLP

Insolvency Bot An insolvency bot leveraging LLMs to answer questions about English insolvency law, using Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG).

Environmental AI: How to reduce the Carbon Footprint of Machine Learning
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Environmental AI: How to reduce the Carbon Footprint of Machine Learning

In the light of the ongoing climate crisis, let’s talk about the carbon footprint of artificial intelligence. The everyday internet user might find it hard to fathom the fact that using ChatGPT or watching YouTube-recommended videos might generate greenhouse emissions.

NLP on under-resourced languages
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NLP on under-resourced languages

Image from: harmonydata.ac.uk “Thinking too much” I have been working on the development of Harmony, a tool to help psychology researchers harmonise questionnaire items in plain text across languages so that they can combine datasets from disparate sources.

Legal chatbot using natural language processing to answer corporate insolvency questions
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Legal chatbot using natural language processing to answer corporate insolvency questions

Insolvency bot, taking into account some statute law and some forms and some case law We have developed a bot using natural language processing to demonstrate the power of legal NLP.

Upcoming Dash in Action webinar on 7 June!
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Upcoming Dash in Action webinar on 7 June!

On 7 June, 2023, at 6pm UK time (1pm EDT), we will be presenting in the webinar Dash in Action: Image Processing, Forecasting, NLP.

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