“A person sees this soon-to-be pornographic gif as an attractive blonde addressing the camera as she’s about to pull a man’s shorts down. A computer sees it as a portrait of a late-20s female inclining her head, sitting indoors in a room with clothing and a painting.”
“Originally published at blog.adatao.com.Follow me on Twitter to keep informed of interesting developments on these topics. Or so Aram Harrow, an MIT physics professor, counter-intuitively argues in “Why now is the right time to study quantum computing”.”
“Today’s Upshot politics and policy column of the New York Times “Can an Algorithm Hire Better Than a Human?” focuses on a new wave of software start-ups that use big data to automate the job recruitment process.”
“There’s more work to do,” said Facebook’s Global Director of Diversity Maxine Williams, who issued a straight-out-of-How-to-Lie-With-Statistics diversity update on Thursday that essentially consisted of a handful of bar charts labeled with only percentages for select measures of the social networking giant’s current demographics.”
“MeeDoc: Live video and chat consultations with doctors and prescription anywhere in Europe. Best mobile app 2014 – Teknologiateollisuus and Teleforum Ry.”
Have nots, be on notice. Recently, a republican FCC chair said the internet was not essential. When the only way to get healthcare is going to be online, we will see about that…
“Could your fridge sense that you’re depressed, and stop you from binging on the chocolate ice cream? Rana el Kaliouby, a Cambridge- and MIT-trained scientist and leader in facial-recognition technology, is concerned about how computers are affecting the emotional lives of her two small children.”
“In ReForm, a new franchise from The Creators Project, we meet the artists creating and re-appropriating the latest technologies in various areas of creative expression. Big poop and art are converging in electrifying ways. In our new video, The Creators Project talks to data artists— R.”
Read: [Video] ReForm | Data Becomes Art in Immersive Visualizations
“One of the emerging trends in the world of photography is the idea of automated recognition and tagging of things found in photographs. Flickr can now suggest autotags for your photos, and Google’s new Photos service lets you search through your unlabeled photos using advanced image recognition.”
Read: Cameras of the Future Will Be Able to Identify Things They See
“A computer is a clock with benefits. They all work the same, doing second-grade math, one step at a time: Tick, take a number and put it in box one. Tick, take another number, put it in box two.”