Hallucinations, Algorithmic bias and Generative AI Temperature – with Mark Esposito

Navigating untruth and truth in a world of (mis)information.

This Transformation Talk explored the complex issues surrounding untruth, truth, and perceptions of reality in an age of advanced technology and abundant information. We will discuss the nature of hallucinations and how our minds can perceive things that are not really there. We will then look at how algorithms and artificial intelligence systems can reflect and even amplify the biases of their creators, potentially spreading misinformation at scale.

Mark Esposito
Professor at Hult Int’l Business School and Faculty Affiliate, Harvard’s Center for International Development

Note: Low internet bandwidth affected the audio and video quality during the Transformation Talk. We apologize for this inconvenience.

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TALK NOTES:

Slides: Beware of Botshit: How to Manage the Epistemic Risks of Generative Chatbots, in Business Horizons - https://docs.google.com/presentation/...

Book: Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy
https://www.amazon.com/Weapons-Math-D...

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About the Presenter

Mark Esposito is a professor of economics and public policy with appointments at Hult International Business School and Harvard University. At Harvard, he serves as social scientist with affiliations at Harvard Kennedy School’s Center for International Development; Harvard University’s Institute for Quantitative Social Science (IQSS) and the Davis Center for Eurasian Studies.

He has been affiliate faculty of the Microeconomics of Competitiveness at Harvard Business School, under the mentorship of Prof. Michael E. Porter and he served as Founding Fellow of the Circular Economy Research Center at the Judge Business School, at the University of Cambridge, where he retains a Senior Associate role.

He advises governments in the GCC and Eurasia regions and is a global expert of the World Economic Forum and holds adunct roles at Mohammed Bin Rashid School of Government, and Georgetown University. He co-founded the Machine Learning research firm, Nexus FrontierTech and the EdTech venture: The Circular Economy Alliance.

He has a doctorate from Ecole des Ponts Paris Tech and he lives across Boston, Geneva and Dubai.