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.…
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
A decade ago companies were mainly focused on data mining, search technology, and virtual collaboration. Today, executives are directing their energy toward artificial intelligence, machine learning, and the Internet of Things. In 2007, companies lacked…
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…
Children can learn to quiet their inner racist. Source: Researchers developed a facial photo-matching game that reverses racial bias in children — Quartz
Blackballed by machine learning: how algorithms can destroy your chances of getting a job The Guardian’s published a long excerpt from Cathy O’Neil’s essential new book, Weapons of Math Destruction, in which O’Neil describes the…
Researchers have trained neural networks to identify obscured faces with disturbingly high accuracy. Source: ‘Faceless Recognition System’ Can Identify You Even When You Hide Your Face
In a dramatic man versus machine encounter, AlphaGo has secured its third, decisive victory against a renowned Go player. With scientists amazed at how fast AI is developing, it’s vital that humans stay in control…