I spoke this morning to Claire Byrne on @rteradio1.bsky.social about the newly formed Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence. Big tech will lobby but they should seek out and listen carefully to the voices of our society on what we want Ireland to look like as a result of the AI revolution.

SCOREQ presents a novel contrastive regression technique for speech quality prediction. Our paper is presented by Alessandro Ragano at #NeurIPS in Vancouver this week.
Paper arxiv.org/pdf/2410.06675
Code github.com/alessandroragano/scoreq @insightcentre.bsky.social @adaptcentre.bsky.social

But, this highlights how a tool to promote democracy could be leveraged. As an aside, this screenshot highlights all the #GE24 candidates responses by colour. The "noisy" patch two thirds of the way down captures the wide ranging opinions of independent candidates. 5/6

Or if a candidate, through understanding the scoring system, could even try to game the system? Candidates could optimise their scores based on the proximity rules by maximise neural answers. 3/6

We evaluated the candidate responses across all constituencies and computed the average number of neutral responses per party, and this is what we observed. We were curious about the effect of the scoring system and whether it promotes outcomes that reflect voter preferences. 2/6

Could "sitting on the fence" for some policies be a strategy to attract floating voters? whichcandidate.ie and Vote Smart tools have been popular with voters in #GE24. Some voters we surprised at unexpected matches. But why? WhichCandidate.ie uses a four-option preference system. #ge #GEIreland 1/6

“Even if the use of ChatGPT becomes an accepted practice within the [legal] profession, this will not necessarily provide a full defence to a negligence claim”- Irish Law Gazette, April 2023. Relying on LLMs without oversight remains an issue for all professionals. www.lawsociety.ie/globalassets...

Inclusion and Universal Design at the forefront for the UCD Dublin 2030 Strategy: Breaking Boundaries. Ambitious plans in #AI, carbon neutrality and student experience also included. Strategy implementation visible with inclusive signing for University President @orlafeely.bsky.social #udl