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Deus ex machina
Artificial intelligence. Digitalisation. Machine learning. Groan. So many buzzwords, so much disinformation, so much fake PR. Let's demystify them.
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This Red Button EDU programme aims to show the paradox of this literary term in everyday life and in relation to the technologies we’re most exposed to. AI is perceived as a magic silver bullet which will fashion solutions out of thin air and solve your problems, regardless whether they are in industry, healthcare, education, bureaucracy, or anything in between. But that’s not how it works. Thanks to over-zealous investors, hyped media pieces, and the misleading anthropomorphic term ‘Artificial intelligence’, this set of statistical and analytical tools is set up to fail under the current circumstances, because expectations around it are set so badly. We’re not dealing with killer robots, black-box algorithms, sexist computers, or immoral machines. Instead, we have at our fingertips one of the most powerful analytical and data processing tools that humanity ever discovered. If we don’t use this blessing well, we’re doomed to be stuck in a repetitive, stagnant dark age which has no chance of surviving repeated crises such as 2020 served up. Status quo simply isn’t working, and AI can change it. Why isn’t it working? What’s preventing the technological revolution from becoming reality for everyone, beyond the startup, tech elite of the metropolis?
AI is our future. AI is the next evolutionary stage. AI can actually help, and we can guide every single step of it. It’s not the Deus Ex Machina we so fear.
This content is being produced exclusively in English with Czech subtitles, in partnership with prg.ai.
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Sara Polak
Sara Polak spent almost a decade in the UK, first studying Archaeology and Cognitive Evolutionary Anthropology at Oxford and then working in various technological startups, ranging from AI for museums and galleries to full scale digitalisation of global politics, working on approximately 50 high profile campaigns. Since 2019 she’s blissfully back in the Czech republic, where she has worked in exploring ways in which machine learning can help Industry 4.0, and since 2020 has become a ‘popularisator’ of AI, trying to push education, multidisciplinarity, and demystification of the technology wherever she goes. She does this primarily through prg.ai, and is also involved in the pAIoneers creative project as a part of Paralelni Polis.
She applies this ‘AI popularisation mantra’ for startups as a part of Startup Disrupt, and tries to push overall popularisation of science as a part of Science To Go. Sara fundamentally believes that technology, especially ‘AI’ is the key to creating a new socioeconomic system and imperative to fundamentally changing the way the individual and the state interact. Sara is a big fan of decentralisation, grassroots entrepreneurialism, and freedom through technology. She manifests this passion as a director of the czech.global project, which connects all Czechs in the world on one online platform, and has the ambition to create the first cloud nation in the world to demonstrate that this new system is truly possible. Sara loves her country, innovation, free multidisciplinary thinking, and finding connections and patterns in the beautiful chaos out there, and hopes to share the AI optimism she has with you through this Red Button EDU programme.