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5 facts from 1 episode, in date order. These are what speakers said on the shows, each linked to the moment it was said. They aren't independently verified.
2018
Sarah Bird says Microsoft's first responsible AI standard took effect around 2018, while deep learning began taking off around 2013.
“I think our first responsible AI standard, uh, sort of came into effect about 2018, but if you're, you know, following the timelines of AI, deep learning really started taking off before that in, like, 2013.”
Undated
Bird gives uneven speech-to-text accuracy across accents as an example of a quality-of-service fairness issue.
“your speech-to-text system could transcribe, you know, better for someone with one type of accent than another.”
Undated
Bird says the term prompt injection is named after the SQL injection attack.
“It's named after a SQL injection attack if you're familiar kind of with that.”
Undated
Traditional security red teams looked only for security vulnerabilities, whereas AI red teams examine a much wider range of misbehavior.
“And so a traditional security red team was just looking for security vulnerabilities.”
Undated
Bird says AI technology recently crossed a threshold of being good enough for agentic use cases.
“we've really in the last couple months kind of crossed a critical threshold where this technology is starting to be good enough for these, you know, agentic use cases.”
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