Demystifying AI (Myths and Realities of AI)

Dai Davis

Artificial Intelligence, at least Artificial Intelligence as it currently exists is neither artificial nor intelligent. It is however extremely clever and certainly capable of doing some tasks better than humans. Equally, it is incapable of doing some tasks at all, but because it has no intelligence is want to make up the wrong answer when it is incapable, a phenomenal know as confabulation.

Dai will explain why Artificial Intelligence has knowledge gaps and in what areas those gaps are particularly prevalent. Equally, Dai will explain the tasks Artificial Intelligence is best at and why. He will explain why the old computer adage of “RIRO”: “rubbish in, rubbish out” still applies. Dai will explain why the statement made above are true and help explain why many so-called “AI systems” proffered in the market place actually have no AI in them at all, whereas others are genuine. He will explain why, in fact, there are no true AI companies in the United Kingdom, and why that statement is likely to hold true in the future, despite the government’s exhortations to create a UK AI industry. He will also briefly look at the concerns surrounding the training of “large language models” and the associated copyright infringement arguments.

Dai Davis is a Technology Lawyer. He practices as a solicitor but is also a qualified Chartered Engineer and Member of the Institution of Engineering and Technology. Dai has consistently been recommended in the Legal 500 and in Chambers Guides to the Legal Profession for over 30 years. He has two master degrees: one in Physics, the other in Computer Science. Having been national head of Intellectual Property law and later national head of Information Technology law at Eversheds for a number of years, Dai has for the past decade been a partner in his own specialist law practice, Percy Crow Davis & Co. Dai works primarily as a commercial contract lawyer and advises clients throughout the country on intellectual property, computer and technology law subjects.

Dai is a non-executive director of FAST (The Federation Against Software Theft) and a Liveryman of the City of London through the WCIT (Worshipful Company of Information Technologists). He is a trustee of the UK Cyber Security Council. He has been a Council member of the Licensing Executives Society of the United Kingdom, a body of professionals dealing in intellectual property licensing, for 15 years.

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