Originally published in Vox.com, July 31, 2020. How Facebook decides which ads to display on your News Feed. In 2019, Facebook settled a lawsuit with civil rights organizations following the revelation that advertisers could use the targeting options on its platform to exclude many specific demographic groups from seeing its ads. It’s now more difficult
Originally published in Popular Mechanics, July 28, 2020 Some academics are calling the controversial practice a “scientific veneer for racism.” Several prominent academic mathematicians want to sever ties with police departments across the U.S., according to a...
Originally published in Wired.com, July 7, 2020 Coronavirus restrictions make it harder and more expensive to shoot videos. So some companies are turning to synthetic media instead. This month, advertising giant WPP will send unusual corporate training...
Originally published in VentureBeat, July 17, 2020. As digital animators continue to push the boundaries of technology and creativity, the technical teams that support them are turning to artificial intelligence and machine learning to deliver the tools...
Originally published in The Verge, June 25, 2020 Because AI is too dumb to do anything else. AI has become an integral part of every tech company’s pitch to consumers. Fail to hype up machine learning or...
Originally published in The Register, July 1, 2020 Top uni takes action after El Reg highlights concerns by academics. Special report MIT has taken offline its highly cited dataset that trained AI systems to potentially describe people...
Originally published in The Gradient, July 6, 2020 Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have become very successful in the domain of artificial intelligence. They have begun to directly influence our lives through image recognition, automated machine translation, precision...
Originally published in Scientific American, July 5, 2020. Siri, Alexa and other programs sometimes have trouble with the accents and speech patterns of people from many underrepresented groups. “Clow-dia,” I say once. Twice. A third time. Defeated,...
Originally published in The Verge, June 23, 2020 A striking image that only hints at a much bigger problem. It’s a startling image that illustrates the deep-rooted biases of AI research. Input a low-resolution picture of Barack...
Originally published in Wired.com, June 18, 2020 Facing criticism over workplace safety, the company is using cameras, sensors, and augmented reality to warn employees when they’re too close to one another. Covid-19 sent Amazon scrambling to adapt...
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