On the Semantics of Differential Privacy and Its Responsible Use

Differential Privacy (DP) is one of the most widely adopted formal model of privacy protection but its semantics, especially in the presence of correlated data and in the adversarial interactive setting, is still not broadly understood among data science practitioners. In this paper, we first look at how DP originated from research on database-reconstruction attacks … More On the Semantics of Differential Privacy and Its Responsible Use

A Simple Definition of Artificial Intelligence

There are many different definitions of Artificial Intelligence in the literature, all are suggestive and insightful. However, at the end of the day, I think there is really one simple enough to be understood and formalised rigorously. This is John McCarthy’s original definition of AI from 1955: “the science and engineering of making intelligent machines”. … More A Simple Definition of Artificial Intelligence