Imagine you are a journalist, writer, host, producer, illustrator, and AI expert, and you exist here and now on this earthly plane. Now imagine you have access to this person right now on Tiny Little Victories. Meet Jamillah Knowles. She is all those things, yet those titles only scrape the surface of her ingenious mind. She's happily an ardent feminist whose father taught her to code when she was seven. She's the former host of BBC Outriders 5Live, blog editor for Huffington Post, EU Comms manager for Etsy, and tech correspondent at Reuters. She worked on User Generated Content before it became a thing.
This brings us here -- to bear witness to the conjunction of all her expertise and talent - dishing up elevated tech and AI expertise alongside her decades-long passion for art and illustration. It's a perfect storm. In this conversation, Jamillah talks about how she arrived at this point and the reasons that led her here. In the case of her AI degree, it was driven by a need to silence people and their skepticism that a woman could understand and apply AI, but also because she always had a passion for how to use emerging technology; after all, she was the host of a show that brought new technology to your brains. We talk about the ethical and legal issues surrounding the use of AI, why there is no more nuance anymore, how all robots don't have AI, and one of her most exciting projects with an arts organization that's using AI to understand the behavior of cats.
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Jamillah's musical background, Linkoping Baseline is from
Jamillah's Instagram https://www.instagram.com/jemimahknight/
Jamillah on Twitter
Jamillah's best in show award which still has her gobsmacked - https://floatingcircle-rwa.org/2022/05/15/meet-the-artist-jamillah-knowles/
And a little PSA from Jamillah - if you are going to us AI images, use images from Better Images of AI organization - https://betterimagesofai.org/
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