Books by Akintunde Agunbiade
In this review, I discuss the principal regulations and licencing requirements for Payment Servic... more In this review, I discuss the principal regulations and licencing requirements for Payment Service Banks (PSB) in Nigeria. PSBs are a new category of banks created by the Central Bank of Nigeria, expected to deliver financial services to Nigeria's rural areas, leveraging on technology.
This review covers all the hurdles intending participants must scale to enter this subset of the Nigerian Payment Space
This book has sought to bring together two seemingly unrelated topics; Artificial Intelligence (A... more This book has sought to bring together two seemingly unrelated topics; Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the Nigerian Legal System. The aim was to explore ways they can affect each other, and how the disruption of AI can be managed with the right legal framework.
To do this, it was necessary to commence this study by providing foundation knowledge about AI, its features, manifestations, and possible areas where it poses a challenge to the law. This was necessary because the topic of AI is not a popular topic of discussion, especially among African legal scholars. This was followed by a study of review of related literature on the subject matter of this book.
It was found that in the few cases where legal scholars, not just in Africa, but globally, discuss AI, their focus is on how it will affect the legal profession, as opposed to the general society or the system of laws for their countries. By focusing on the Nigerian Legal System, this long essay earned its mark of distinction from the previous body of literature. Considering the wide scope of the topic, it was necessary to focus on some specific aspects of the legal system. The chosen areas were the adjudicative process, the laws of tortious negligence and strict liability, then a general regulatory framework for AI in Nigeria.
This book proposed the development of an indigenous AI system merged with ADR mechanisms that would reduce the incidence of court congestion alongside a complete legal framework of how it would operate. To give this context, the High Court Laws of Lagos State were utilised. This book also considered the challenges that AI might pose to the tort of negligence in Nigeria in its current form, and concluded that for all purposes, the liability for any harm caused by AI should lie with humans, not the tool, as they do not possess, and are not capable of legal personality, the way humans are. An ethical and regulatory framework was also developed to guide the application, development, and use of AI in Nigeria.
Papers by Akintunde Agunbiade
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As AI and robotics become more common in our everyday lives, they pose a challenge to long-settle... more As AI and robotics become more common in our everyday lives, they pose a challenge to long-settled definitions, principles, and concepts that govern our daily lives. Robots have been defined as 'force through intelligence' or 'where AI meets the real world'. Sex robots are a variant of social robots whose primary purpose is to provide sexual gratification and intimacy for humans. Sex robots come in different forms with unique functionalities, which are covered in this paper. Human intimacy in this paper focuses on heterosexual relationships, as this is what the use of sex robots is modelled after. In this paper, mention is made of robots that can refuse or simulate the rejection of sexual intimacy with the user. Several ethical dilemmas are also presented, which are by no means conclusive of all the various ways sex robots can be exploited or developed.
This paper seeks to consider the assertion by a group of scientists at DeepMind Technologies that... more This paper seeks to consider the assertion by a group of scientists at DeepMind Technologies that the reward mechanism underlying reinforcement learning is sufficient for achieving artificial general intelligence (AGI).
Reinforcement learning is a machine learning technique focused on reward maximisation that took off based on US government funding in the 1980s and '90s. It has been applied in self-driving cars, video gaming, game-playing computers, text-to-speech systems, and for training convolutional neural networks.
The unique contribution of this paper is the proposal that quantum computing can support the application of reinforcement learning to achieve AGI. There have been attempts at achieving AGI, to no avail, which is why the DeepMind scientists view reinforcement learning as a viable path forward.
Their position does not align with the mainstream thought about the potential of reinforcement learning, which is where quantum computing comes in. However, quantum computing has fewer real-world applications compared to reinforcement learning.
Its underlying principles may notwithstanding accelerate the progress toward AGI.
As AI and robotics become more common in our everyday lives, they pose a challenge to long-settle... more As AI and robotics become more common in our everyday lives, they pose a challenge to long-settled definitions, principles, and concepts that govern our daily lives. Robots have been defined as 'force through intelligence' or 'where AI meets the real world'. Sex robots are a variant of social robots whose primary purpose is to provide sexual gratification and intimacy for humans. Sex robots come in different forms with unique functionalities, which are covered in this paper. Human intimacy in this paper focuses on heterosexual relationships, as this is what the use of sex robots is modelled after. In this paper, mention is made of robots that can refuse or simulate the rejection of sexual intimacy with the user. Several ethical dilemmas are also presented, which are by no means conclusive of all the various ways sex robots can be exploited or developed.
This review considers Nigeria's primary data protection regulation as at 2019 - the Nigerian Data... more This review considers Nigeria's primary data protection regulation as at 2019 - the Nigerian Data Protection Regulation 2019, a local version of the EU GDPR. There is a Data Protection Bill before the National Assembly with more comprehensive provisions, but in the meantime, the NDPR subsists.
This review considers the following:
- powers and rights of data controllers and subjects
- covered persons under the NDPR 2019
- novel introductions by the NDPR 2019
- ways consent should/should not be obtained using the medium of storytelling
- enforcement mechanisms under the NDPR 2019
- penalties and dispute resolution
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Books by Akintunde Agunbiade
This review covers all the hurdles intending participants must scale to enter this subset of the Nigerian Payment Space
To do this, it was necessary to commence this study by providing foundation knowledge about AI, its features, manifestations, and possible areas where it poses a challenge to the law. This was necessary because the topic of AI is not a popular topic of discussion, especially among African legal scholars. This was followed by a study of review of related literature on the subject matter of this book.
It was found that in the few cases where legal scholars, not just in Africa, but globally, discuss AI, their focus is on how it will affect the legal profession, as opposed to the general society or the system of laws for their countries. By focusing on the Nigerian Legal System, this long essay earned its mark of distinction from the previous body of literature. Considering the wide scope of the topic, it was necessary to focus on some specific aspects of the legal system. The chosen areas were the adjudicative process, the laws of tortious negligence and strict liability, then a general regulatory framework for AI in Nigeria.
This book proposed the development of an indigenous AI system merged with ADR mechanisms that would reduce the incidence of court congestion alongside a complete legal framework of how it would operate. To give this context, the High Court Laws of Lagos State were utilised. This book also considered the challenges that AI might pose to the tort of negligence in Nigeria in its current form, and concluded that for all purposes, the liability for any harm caused by AI should lie with humans, not the tool, as they do not possess, and are not capable of legal personality, the way humans are. An ethical and regulatory framework was also developed to guide the application, development, and use of AI in Nigeria.
Papers by Akintunde Agunbiade
Reinforcement learning is a machine learning technique focused on reward maximisation that took off based on US government funding in the 1980s and '90s. It has been applied in self-driving cars, video gaming, game-playing computers, text-to-speech systems, and for training convolutional neural networks.
The unique contribution of this paper is the proposal that quantum computing can support the application of reinforcement learning to achieve AGI. There have been attempts at achieving AGI, to no avail, which is why the DeepMind scientists view reinforcement learning as a viable path forward.
Their position does not align with the mainstream thought about the potential of reinforcement learning, which is where quantum computing comes in. However, quantum computing has fewer real-world applications compared to reinforcement learning.
Its underlying principles may notwithstanding accelerate the progress toward AGI.
This review considers the following:
- powers and rights of data controllers and subjects
- covered persons under the NDPR 2019
- novel introductions by the NDPR 2019
- ways consent should/should not be obtained using the medium of storytelling
- enforcement mechanisms under the NDPR 2019
- penalties and dispute resolution
-
This review covers all the hurdles intending participants must scale to enter this subset of the Nigerian Payment Space
To do this, it was necessary to commence this study by providing foundation knowledge about AI, its features, manifestations, and possible areas where it poses a challenge to the law. This was necessary because the topic of AI is not a popular topic of discussion, especially among African legal scholars. This was followed by a study of review of related literature on the subject matter of this book.
It was found that in the few cases where legal scholars, not just in Africa, but globally, discuss AI, their focus is on how it will affect the legal profession, as opposed to the general society or the system of laws for their countries. By focusing on the Nigerian Legal System, this long essay earned its mark of distinction from the previous body of literature. Considering the wide scope of the topic, it was necessary to focus on some specific aspects of the legal system. The chosen areas were the adjudicative process, the laws of tortious negligence and strict liability, then a general regulatory framework for AI in Nigeria.
This book proposed the development of an indigenous AI system merged with ADR mechanisms that would reduce the incidence of court congestion alongside a complete legal framework of how it would operate. To give this context, the High Court Laws of Lagos State were utilised. This book also considered the challenges that AI might pose to the tort of negligence in Nigeria in its current form, and concluded that for all purposes, the liability for any harm caused by AI should lie with humans, not the tool, as they do not possess, and are not capable of legal personality, the way humans are. An ethical and regulatory framework was also developed to guide the application, development, and use of AI in Nigeria.
Reinforcement learning is a machine learning technique focused on reward maximisation that took off based on US government funding in the 1980s and '90s. It has been applied in self-driving cars, video gaming, game-playing computers, text-to-speech systems, and for training convolutional neural networks.
The unique contribution of this paper is the proposal that quantum computing can support the application of reinforcement learning to achieve AGI. There have been attempts at achieving AGI, to no avail, which is why the DeepMind scientists view reinforcement learning as a viable path forward.
Their position does not align with the mainstream thought about the potential of reinforcement learning, which is where quantum computing comes in. However, quantum computing has fewer real-world applications compared to reinforcement learning.
Its underlying principles may notwithstanding accelerate the progress toward AGI.
This review considers the following:
- powers and rights of data controllers and subjects
- covered persons under the NDPR 2019
- novel introductions by the NDPR 2019
- ways consent should/should not be obtained using the medium of storytelling
- enforcement mechanisms under the NDPR 2019
- penalties and dispute resolution
-