Ricardo
Baeza-Yates
Professor of the Practice and Director of Research at the Experiential AI Institute
Ricardo Baeza-Yates in the Press
El Pais
Two years of ChatGPT: From utter amazement to the ‘trough of disillusionment’
“Generative AI has led to interesting applications, such as summarizing texts, composing letters in other languages, and extracting information from documents, but also problematic uses, such as relying on the system to extract factual information when it is really making predictions not searching, or to draw conclusions when it isn’t reasoning,” explains Ricardo Baeza-Yates, research […]
TechTarget
Microsoft introduces new safety tools for generative AI
A capability like this shows ways the cloud provider has learned from experiences such as the lawsuit from The New York Times, said Ricardo Baeza-Yates, director of research at the Institute for Experiential AI at Northeastern University.
Fact Check- Image does not show ‘last Neanderthal giant’
Ricardo Baeza-Yates, director of research at the Experiential AI Institute at Northeastern University (www.baeza.cl/spanish.html), also reviewed the image for Reuters and highlighted a few other problems with it, such as backgrounds with different contrast, variable resolution, missing eyes, and shadows that are not consistent.
12 Tech Experts Share Important Information Everyone Should Know About Voice-Activated Tech
Voice-based assistants encode biases present in the training examples. These include accent understanding, gender bias, geographic bias, religious bias and so on. Awareness of these biases is the first step. In the near future I expect research will be carried out to understand the impact of these biases on consumers—in the same way that biases […]

