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authors:NYT Staff.
headline:HP unveils Humane AI pin promising a research center on fairness.
publication:The New York Times.
date:Feb 18, 2025.
abstract:HP has developed a Humane AI pin showcasing a vision for research to ensure that most advanced technologies evolve fairly.
tags:aristotle, hp, humane ai, machine learning, pinterest.
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When artificial intelligence remains confined in a computer laboratory, it is easy to forget about its potentially troubling consequences in the real world.
HP is seeking to reverse that with the unveiling on Thursday of a Humane AI pin, developed with the engineers and designers at Pinterest, to help establish technological guardrails against a world that, if left unchecked, could potentially grant too much power to a select few.
“Artificial intelligence can transform our society in ways that we can’t even initially comprehend,” said Prat Chand, the chief technology officer for data, analytics and automation at H.P. Inc, the outcome of H.P.’s spinoff from Hewlett-Packard last year. “At the same time, we have been shown, time and again, that we must be very careful that we avoid inadvertently automating and accelerating societal injustices.”
As Google and Facebook compete on innovating in a contest of race for smart implants that can improve human memory; facial recognition technology that can identify protesters walking down the street; and speech synthesis instruments that can mimic virtually all accents; the question of where to draw a line remains a matter of heated debate.
The Humane AI pin, a simple black circuit board with rows of pins connected to a calculator chip shows that HP’s plan involves making big bets on some of the smartest minds and largest problems.
The research collaboration, which involves a dozen or so leading engineers and researchers and has been in the works for the last year-and-a-half, explicitly establishes an overarching thesis around fairness that is intended to guide AI studies in the decades ahead.
Mr. Chand called the Humane AI framework “our Aristotelian architectural principle for thinking about how intelligent systems should work: what differentiates a learning machine from a form of intelligence tool that serves the human purpose rather than undermines it.”
Humane AI plan involves addressing exactly these issues: How do we ensure that math based on averages, embodied in tools like the recommender engines relied on for everything from cinema to episodic television programming, do not overpower machine learning systems and result in the kind of stratification of companies and products that can increasingly exploit those willing to pay a premium for a tailored experience? And how do we ensure that our best technologies remain aware of our human instincts?
To complement and advance this programmatic research, HP has also begun ladelling other investments in specialist talent to help advance its artificial intelligence agenda.
In May, the company announced that it made more than a hundred new hires focused specifically on machine learning, data analytics and artificial intelligence across labs in Bristol, England, and in Fort Collins, Colorado.
HP also said that it would open a cloud AI institute in Bristol next year while simultaneously appointing its first chief data scientist and announcing plans to create a machine learning university in an alliance with the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium.
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