Sarah Bird, Engineering Lead at Microsoft, talks about responsible AI and best practices. She discusses generative AI and metrics to evaluate systems. Existing tools for developing AI systems are also discussed.
Responsible AI requires aligning systems with principles like fairness, inclusiveness, privacy, security, and reliability.
Generative AI enables human control through prompts and designing interfaces that specify desired outcomes.
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Responsibility in AI
Sara Bird, engineering lead at Microsoft, discusses the concept of responsible AI and its importance. She highlights the need to align AI systems with principles such as fairness, inclusiveness, privacy, security, and reliability. Sara provides examples of different types of fairness in AI systems, including quality of service fairness, allocational fairness, and representational fairness. She emphasizes the significance of measuring and ensuring these fairness metrics in AI applications.
Generative AI
Sara explains the concept of generative AI and how it differs from traditional AI models. She discusses the rise of foundation models, which are large-scale models trained on vast amounts of data, and their ability to generate content. Sara highlights the power of prompts in controlling the behavior of generative AI systems and enabling human control. She also mentions the importance of designing interfaces that allow users to specify their desired outcomes more precisely. Sara underscores the need for responsible design and user empowerment in generative AI applications.
Metrics and Tools for Responsible AI
Sara discusses the importance of metrics and tools in developing responsible AI systems. She explains the use of system prompts and meta prompts in guiding AI behavior and ensuring safety and reliability. Sara describes the development of automated measurement systems to evaluate various responsible AI risks, such as groundedness, coherence, and harmful content. She highlights the availability of Azure AI tools and technologies, including content safety features and built-in metrics for measuring responsible AI performance. Sara emphasizes the need for continuous research, policy development, and engineering advancements in responsible AI.
Sarah Bird, Engineering Lead at Microsoft talked about what responsible AI is and its main components and best practices. Sarah also explained what generative AI is and example metrics to evaluate systems that use it. At the end we talked about existing tools that can assist in developing AI systems.
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