From our attitude towards work to our grasp of what two metres look like, the coronavirus pandemic has made us rethink how we see the world. But while we've found it hard to adjust to the new reality, it's been even harder for the narrowly-designed artificial intelligence models that have been created to help organisation make decisions. Based on data that described the world before the crisis, these won't be making correct predictions anymore, pointing to a fundamental problem in they way AI is being designed. David Cox, IBM director of the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab, explains that faulty AI is particularly problematic in the case of so-called black box predictive models: those algorithms which work in ways that are not visible, or understandable, to the user. "It's very dangerous," Cox says, "if you don't understand what's going on internally within a model in which you shovel data on one end to get a result on the other end. The model is supposed to embody the structure of the world, but there is no guarantee that it will keep working if the world changes."

Key Points: – We're kicking off Watson Lab's high school internship program for the spring semester – The curriculum prepares the students to work as Software Developers at IBM during their Senior year. It is that time of year again. At Watson Lab we are piloting a high school internship program for the spring semester. We love to welcome visitors from the community to learn about our projects with AI and Cognitive Computing and experience some of the groundbreaking work we're pursuing behind the scenes. Computer Science students from Connally High School from Pflugerville visited us last spring.

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