Using artificial intelligence and open data for innovation and accountability News Open Data Institute

In the light of the UK's new industrial strategy and budget, as well as the ODI's recent participation in a House of Lords evidence session around how AI and personal data should be owned, managed, valued and used for the benefit of society, the ODI's Head of Technology Olivier Thereaux examines our work in this area. Artificial intelligence (AI) is currently enjoying a renaissance in industry and popular imagination, and in the most recent UK government budget. AI's popularity can be partly explained by the fact that, for the first time, we have enough large-scale data for training AI systems. There are public datasets for computer vision, natural language, speech and many more non-public datasets within businesses and governments. Recent improvements in hardware are also making it more cost-effective to train and run machine-learning models.