Nick Sherman

Nick Sherman is a Creative Director and VP of Marketing and Design at Mind Foundry. A former philosopher and filmmaker, he has been working at the edge of technology for over a decade, using design and story-telling to shape and influence the evolution of responsible technology.

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AI and Sonar: Seeing with Sound

Despite the ocean covering over 70% of the Earth’s surface, we have only physically explored 5% of it. Part of the reason why so much of it is left unexplored is because 90% of the oceans' depths exist in perpetual darkness. At a depth of only 1...

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Fighting Fraud in Typhoon Season

Natural disasters create an environment for scam artists to exploit desperate communities. AI can help insurers detect and counteract these nefarious schemes before they cause societal harm. Every year, natural disasters devastate countries around...

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AI and the Ageing Infrastructure Problem - Blog Title Image

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AI and the Ageing Infrastructure Problem

Global civil infrastructure is reaching a crisis point as it ages. Mind Foundry, Aioi Nissay Dowa Insurance, and the Aioi R&D Lab - Oxford are working together to build a solution that solves this problem with Human - AI collaboration.

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AI vs Fraud in the UK and Japan

Fraud is a constant and ever-changing threat in the global insurance industry. In partnership with Aioi Nissay Dowa Insurance, Aioi Nissay Dowa Europe and The Aioi R&D Lab Oxford, Mind Foundry has developed powerful AI solutions to combat it. In the...

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Aioi R&D Lab - Oxford in 2024

One year into its mission to solve global-scale societal issues through the creation of products and services powered by AI technologies, the Aioi R&D Lab - Oxford is breaking barriers in global collaboration, driven by a commitment to the...

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AI Regulations around the World

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AI Regulations around the World

This article will continue to evolve and change as new details and milestones around AI Regulations emerge. A history of these edits can be found at the end of the piece. In the last decade, we have witnessed the most significant progress in the...

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How Quantum Computing and LLMs Will Revolutionise Insurance

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How Quantum Computing and LLMs Will Revolutionise Insurance

In a previous article, we discussed how the recently launched Aioi R&D Lab - Oxford was tackling the problem of ageing populations by using insurance telematics data and AI to detect the risk factors indicating cognitive decline in elderly drivers....

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Understanding Risk in Insurance: From Cognitive Decline to Large Loss

At the beginning of 2023, we announced the launch of the Aioi R&D Lab - Oxford, a joint venture between Mind Foundry and our partners Aioi Nissay Dowa Insurance (ANDI) and Aioi Nissay Dowa Europe (AND-E). One of the projects the Lab has worked on is...

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Explaining AI Explainability

There’s been a lot of talk about the development of large language models (LLMs) recently, with the loudest voices split between those who think it poses a significant risk to humanity and those who believe it could be the crowning achievement of...

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All You Need to Know about the Aioi R&D Lab - Oxford

In February 2023, we announced the launch of the Aioi R&D Lab - Oxford, a joint venture between Mind Foundry and our partners Aioi Nissay Dowa Insurance (ANDI) and Aioi Nissay Dowa Europe (AND-E). This is the first of its kind research lab, so...

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The Power to Do Good with AI

The past few months have shown us how quickly deep tech innovation, and especially advances in Artificial Intelligence (AI), can be developed and adopted at great scale. New AI tools have emerged at breakneck speed, opening up a range of...

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Mind Foundry Wins CogX Explainable AI Award for 2022

We’re delighted to announce that we won a prestigious CogX award in the “Best Innovation in Explainable AI” category last night. The CogX awards recognise innovators and change-makers looking to make a real impact on the world around us with...

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