Adnan Masood, a Machine Learning Phd's musings on Life, Technology, Research & Development
As an AI practitioner, I cannot overstate the importance of caution when evaluating the recent paper, "Sparks of Artificial General Intelligence: Early experiments with GPT-4". While GPT-4's capabilities are undeniably impressive, we must not let auto-regressive models predicting sequences in the most conceivable manner deceive us into believing that AGI is imminent. The paper claims…
My recent interview @ IDGConnect - Can AI and blockchain help tackle the fake news problem? We look at the possible applications of these technologies to combat misinformation online and hear from Adnan Masood, PhD., chief AI architect at digital transformation firm UST and Mohammad Mahdavi, professor for data science at GISMA Business School in…
From Christian Buckley's blog For Episode 98 of the #MVPbuzzChat series, I connected with Artificial Intelligence MVP and Microsoft Regional Director Dr. Adnan Masood (@adnanmasood), an AI and Machine Learning researcher, software architect, and visiting Scholar at Stanford University. https://buckleyplanet.com/2020/07/mvpbuzzchat-with-dr-adnan-masood.html…#MVPBuzz
I was recently quoted on Forbes article on AI for good, and its use in public sector. Cross-cutting areas which impact all of us include public health, education, disaster prevention, conservation, and agriculture. Every citizen benefits if AI is deployed across these sectors, promoting diversity and inclusiveness, with eyes on fairness and democratization, said Adnan…
Artificial Intelligence holds a great promise for mankind --- enterprises, education, government, public policy, building knowledge economy, and data driven decision making, we see the emergence of cognitive computing in different walks of life. However, the question of reliable, accountable, and fair artificial intelligence is still far from being answered. Michael McQuade, member of the…
Barring any issues with Covid-19, I plan to speak at Azure+AI Conference on April 6th - 9th, 2020 Walt Disney World Swan and Dolphin Resort, Orlando. My talk abstracts follow: Learning from Feedback – Explore Reinforcement Learning for Next Best Action with Azure Personalizer Reinforcement Learning is an approach to machine learning that learns behaviors…
South Florida Software Developer Conference is a one day developer events on the topics including Machine Learning, AI, VR/AR/MR, IoT, ,NET Core, Visual Studio 2019, DevOps, MVC Framework, JavaScript, JQuery, SQL Server 2019, Business Intelligence, Software Testing, Xamarin/Mobile Development, cross platform development, Azure/Cloud, and Business/Career Development. Teaming up with TechLauderdale and Palm Beach Tech Association,…
My interview on the podcast, confessions of an Angry Programmer is live on itunes. https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/confessions-of-angry-programmers-podcast/id1450294658?mt=2 Thank you David and Woody for inviting me to speak. My topic included explain-ability in AI algorithms which includes both technical and social perspectives. In this podcast we discussed algorithmic bias, black-box nature of algorithms, and need for transparency. I…
Microsoft MVP Global Summit 2019 is in the books! An amazing week of informative sessions, enlightening talks, networking, and festivities has finally concluded for most of us -- this tiring yet highly fulfilling and informative week left me reminiscing about what does being an MVP mean. I decided to jot down my thoughts and share…
TampaBay Community Connect CodeCamp on Sat 10/20 at Keiser University was a success with over 400 attendees and 40+ sessions including 10+ fellow MVPs. I had the privilege to speak on Democratization of AI with Cognitive Services, Bias in Algorithms, and ONNX for model exchange. Following are the brief abstracts and slides from the talk Operationalizing…