Yesterday I created a bot. Not a very smart bot, and not a very useful bot. It doesn’t feature any artificial intelligence, and it won’t learn from any interations with visitors, chatters, or customers. But…
Facebook’s artificial intelligence systems now report more offensive photos than humans do, marking a major milestone in the social network’s battle against.. Source: Facebook spares humans by fighting offensive photos with AI
The move illustrates how technology companies are doubling down on secure messaging while not wanting to get in the way of their other business objectives Source: Facebook planning encrypted version of its Messenger bot, sources…
It’s based on a novel he wrote, and will be released later this year Not surprising at all that Mr. Singularity is building a chatbot. Source: Ray Kurzweil is building a chatbot for Google |…
Design patterns often have a bad reputation. They are often considered to be quick, lazy, off-the-shelf solutions that are applied blindly without consideration of the context of a problem. Solutions such as the almighty off-canvas…
There’s software used across the country to predict future criminals. And it’s biased against blacks. This is really, truly frightening. Links: States predict inmates’ future crimes with secretive surveys The New Science of Sentencing Source:…
The biggest near term threat to the stability of nations might not be climate change, terrorism, or nuclear war. It just might be robots—putting millions of people out of jobs. Where will they all go?…
Motion AI, a Chicago company that lets anyone easily build a bot without touching a line of code, has announced it is open to business after several months of private testing. Source: Motion AI lets…
Data USA proves that census data can be beautiful, while simultaneously pulling it out of Google’s blind spot: the deep web. Cesar A. Hidalgo of MIT’s MacroConnection Lab created Data USA to help elicit the stories hidden…