“Up until about a year ago, I worked at a historic site in the South that included an old house and a nearby plantation. My job was to lead tours and tell guests about the people who made plantations possible: the slaves.”
Read: I used to lead tours at a plantation. You won’t believe the questions I got about slavery.
“Up until about a year ago, I worked at a historic site in the South that included an old house and a nearby plantation. My job was to lead tours and tell guests about the people who made plantations possible: the slaves.”
Read: I used to lead tours at a plantation. You won’t believe the questions I got about slavery.
“The buzz over artificial intelligence (AI) has grown loud enough to penetrate the C-suites of organizations around the world, and for good reason. Investment in AI is growing and is increasingly coming from organizations outside the tech space.”
Read: A Survey of 3,000 Executives Reveals How Businesses Succeed with AI
“For years we’ve been recorded in public on security cameras, police bodycams, livestreams, other people’s social media posts, and on and on.”
“Human job recruiters can only physically juggle so many candidates at once. HireVue, a company with a “video interview intelligence platform,” wants to make that easier by using artificial intelligence to do the heavy lifting for you and screen multiple candidates at once.”
“About five or six years ago, one of Karl Ricanek’s students showed him a video on YouTube. It was a time lapse of a person undergoing hormone replacement therapy, or HRT, in order to transition genders.”
Read: Transgender YouTubers had their videos grabbed to train facial recognition software
“Apple is adding an easy way to quickly disable Touch ID in iOS 11. A new setting, designed to automate emergency services calls, lets iPhone users tap the power button quickly five times to call 911.”
Read: iOS 11 has a ‘cop button’ to temporarily disable Touch ID
“HRT transgender dataset – 38 people – ≈278 photos/ea – used for training face rec – scraped from YouTube – consent?”
“In the hours following the Unite the Right white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, over the weekend, a short 1943 propaganda film called Don’t Be a Sucker, produced by the US Department of Defense, went viral on the internet.”
Read: This anti-Nazi film went viral after Charlottesville. It may be less effective than it seems.
“Office culture is only part of the problem. The memo has drawn rage and dismay since its appearance Saturday, when it was first reported by Motherboard.”
Read: A Googler’s Would-Be Manifesto Reveals Tech’s Rotten Core