AI & Data Intelligence Blog

A robot breaks the finger of a 7-year-old: a lesson in the need for stronger regulation of artificial intelligence

Disturbing footage emerged this week of a chess-playing robot breaking the finger of a seven-year-old child during a tournament in…

Jul 30, 2022 Yves Mulkers 54M views 2 min read

Does Your Company’s Culture Reinforce Its Strategy and Purpose?

Good strategy has traditionally been seen as the key to business success. More recently, purpose has become an essential element…

Jun 15, 2022 Yves Mulkers 24M views 4 min read

Zen and the Art of Data Maintenance: All Data is Suffering

Our reactions to the data we receive can cause a great deal of suffering. For example, there was a hospital…

Jun 4, 2022 Yves Mulkers 12M views 4 min read

The Future of Computing: How Brain-Computer Interfaces Will Change Our Relationship with Computers

Ever since Elon Musk’s Neuralink showcased the monkey Pager controlling a game with its mind, Brain-Computer Interfaces (BCIs) came to…

May 1, 2022 Yves Mulkers 56M views 4 min read

The Dangers Of Not Aligning Artificial Intelligence With Human Values

In artificial intelligence (AI), the “alignment problem” refers to the challenges caused by the fact that machines simply do not…

Apr 7, 2022 Yves Mulkers 13M views 4 min read

Human error in data analytics, and how to fix it using artificial intelligence

The benefits of analytics are well-documented. Analytics has helped organisations transform retail experiences, map pathways for trains and trucks, discover…

Jan 27, 2022 Yves Mulkers 59M views 3 min read

From fake news to sustainability – why you should care about data literacy

Eminent 20 Century mathematician Abraham Wald once said, “the most important data is the data you don’t have”. Today, however, in our data-driven world,…

Sep 20, 2021 Yves Mulkers 52M views 3 min read

5 elements of servant leadership

I have had the privilege of building and leading teams inside many organizational cultures. As such, I have observed the…

Jul 12, 2021 Yves Mulkers 32M views 3 min read

What Your Organization Needs to Know About Data Mesh

Data mesh has been steadily gaining popularity as an approach to enterprise data architecture. While it embodies some great ideas,…

Apr 21, 2021 Yves Mulkers 86M views 3 min read

How big data is battling child abuse

Technology and data unite every aspect of our lives, and the digital information that we produce is being put to…

Jan 13, 2021 Yves Mulkers 78M views 3 min read