Joy Buolamwini was conducting research at MIT on how computers recognized people’s faces, when she started experiencing something weird….. Whenever she sat before a system’s front-facing camera, it wouldn’t recognize her face, even after working for her lighter-skinned friends.…
AI “paper-clip maximizer” metaphor can explain humanity’s imminent doom As technology progresses at an exponential rate, we must take a step back to ask what we’re optimizing for. Source: Artificial intelligence’s “paper-clip maximizer” metaphor can…
Facial recognition technology is improving by leaps and bounds. Some commercial software can now tell the gender of a person in a photograph. When the person in the photo is a white man, the software…
Want to market Nazi memorabilia, or recruit marchers for a far-right rally? Facebook’s self-service ad-buying platform had the right audience for you. Source: Facebook Enabled Advertisers to Reach ‘Jew Haters’ — ProPublica
One key reason we don’t control our devices is that the companies that make them seem to think – and definitely act like – they still own them, even after we’ve bought them. Source: The…
Human biases can pollute the “objectivity” of machine learning algorithms, writes Julie Wittes Schlack, SVP of product innovation at C Space. Source: Machine Learning: Beware the Bias | DigitalNext – AdAge
Artificial intelligence picks up racial and gender biases when learning language from text, researchers say. Without any supervision, a machine learning algorithm learns to associate female names more with family words than career words, and…
This could spell the end of long lines at the store—and millions of cashier jobs. Source: Amazon is opening a grocery store with no cashiers and no checkout lines
Adobe is working on a new piece of software, codenamed Project VoCo, that would act like a Photoshop for audio, according to Adobe developer Zeyu Jin, who spoke at the Adobe MAX conference in…
Children can learn to quiet their inner racist. Source: Researchers developed a facial photo-matching game that reverses racial bias in children — Quartz