Iain and Phil hosted the meeting. Thanks to Iain for providing these notes …
My brief notes area as follows:
Amazon Fire Tablet review
Phil Edwards gave an amusing but thorough review of the Amazon Fire tablet family. His conclusion was that were perfect for consuming eBooks and videos etc. This is especially true for people who have an Amazon Prime account. The tablets are particularly cheap during Amazon’s Prime Day sales. The combination of low price and reasonable functionality made them “shiny enough” in Phil’s view.
Iain King reviewed the articles added to Thought Grazing since the previous meeting.
AI Bias: with data and without
Iain King showed a couple of pictures generated by AI for a poster for the Llandaff Over 50s Club. The Secretary of the Club was not pleased with AI’s representation of Llandaff’s Over 50s. Iain drew attention to the book Invisible Women by Caroline Criado Perez. This highlights how an absence of data disadvantages women in a wide range of fields e.g. medicine, car safety etc. The absence of data on which to train AI risks exacerbating this disadvantage.
… and he added this Postscript – “(Typed on a Linux PC !)” – congratulations!!!