Machine learning and human machine interaction

What is machine learning and how does it work? Machine learning is very simply said a written  algorithm that can process a huge amount of data. We must enable the accessibility of the data, then  there are different ways to extract the materials from this entry in the database. The material is later  changed into more or less meaningful sentences or when working with images, more or less  meaningful insights, which are a result of machine learning. Machine learning is called artificial  intelligence in a more affectionate way, since it’s not really about some intelligence but because the  machines are really capable, and their ability fascinates us in the same way as the ability of highly  intelligent people who are capable of quickly processing huge amounts of data and then communicate  it. Here I could list different types of machine learning but taking into consideration that it is in a big  swing, many new concepts are also being developed so I don’t think it makes any particular sense to  list the forms of the machine learning.

Can you present some concrete examples of machine learning to make it easier to imagine it? For  example, with the purpose of making it easier for people to imagine what we are dealing with, we have  used one form of machine learning, which is based on the algorithm GPT-2. It is an open AI, the second  generation, which we have included in the design of our newsletter. It is published once per month at  our institute because we have a huge variety of activities. We publish what we are going to be doing  this month, for example some exhibition, workshops, performances, where we are hosting, we also  publish similar events run by our partners around the world. In short, there is quite a lot of data and  at the beginning of this newsletter I wrote an introduction which should have motivated the recipient  to go through our quite long newsletter. I was constantly late with these introductions and our PR  constantly reminded me about it. Together we came up with the idea of algorithm writing the  introduction. Now all the published texts are put through the algorithm, which later transforms it into  a short text. It creates a short metaphor for what was put into the algorithm. The database is rather  small, since the basis is our newsletter, but it manages to summarise the texts more or less  appropriately. Some words are used in a strange way, especially because the algorithm is meant for  English and not Slovene language. Then it searches the web in all the Slavic languages for language and  letter specifics. Texts are usually formed from Polish, Czech, Russian. Every time you press the submit  button, the second suggestion appears. It takes a little bit of effort and pressing the submit button.  Later, human intelligence and judgment take place. The person who creates the newsletter chooses  the appropriate introduction of the newsletter by himself. It is now more efficient. We have delegated  one function to the algorithm. Usually more witty introductions are chosen, by which we point to the  capacity on the ability of this machine learning. Recipients of our newsletter can get a little sense of  what it means to create an introduction with the help of the algorithm.

What are the threats and challenges when working with AI? Challenges are the same as in every  technology we use in our lives. A user without knowledge and sensibility risks that the machine will  use him and not the opposite. We see this already in very simple consumer situations. Our phones  have taken a large part of our attention. We do see that technology enters our intimate lives, as well  it affects the society. Sometimes, say at the beginning of mobile telephony, it was easier for the few  who had the phones and they had a certain advantage in the organization of the work. Today it is so  that if you do not have a mobile phone and if you are not always accessible it is already a disadvantage  and it is already a certain psychological pressure on the people. You must know how and when to  unplug yourself, and also protect your right for privacy. Here I see the need for people to develop their  digital literacy and computer literacy. Simply, as every man develops a certain financial literacy, e.g.  when he goes to the shop he knows that he will not pay a thousand euros for the bread. Similarly, we  have to develop digital and computer literacy.