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A Day in the Life of a CDO: Kate Carruthers, Former Chief Data & Insights Officer, UNSW Sydney
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A Day in the Life of a CDO: Kate Carruthers, Former Chief Data & Insights Officer, UNSW Sydney

Nov 4, 2024 | 9 mins

Enterprises need to decide which AI platforms they want to securely deploy and support because these models run the risk of being “egregiously wrong at scale,” says UNSW’s recently retired data chief, Kate Carruthers.

Speaking to ADAPT, Carruthers observed that people are challenged when it comes to selecting which AI tools to use.

“You can’t support them all, as much as people would like you to. You’re going to have to pick some and you’re going to have to work out which ones you want to secure because AI can run the risk of being egregiously wrong at scale if you get it wrong,” she tells ADAPT.

AI hallucinations in critical areas, for instance, are an issue. Last month, software engineers, developers and academic researchers discovered that OpenAI’s Whisper transcription tool, which is used in hospitals, is prone to making up text and even entire sentences. Some…

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