“Roughly 85% of corporate executives and board members are white men. This number hasn’t budged for decades, which suggests that white men are continuing to select and promote other white men.”
Read: Women and Minorities Are Penalized for Promoting Diversity
“Otis Nash works six days a week at two jobs, as a security guard and a pest control technician, but still struggles to make the $190.69 monthly Geico car insurance payment for his 2012 Honda Civic LX. Across town, Ryan Hedges has a similar insurance policy with Geico.”
Read: Minority Neighborhoods Pay Higher Car Insurance Premiums Than White Areas With the Same Risk
“The secretive ride-hailing giant Uber rarely discusses internal matters in public. But in March, facing crises on multiple fronts, top officials convened a call for reporters to insist that Uber was changing its culture and would no longer tolerate “brilliant jerks.””
Read: How Uber Uses Psychological Tricks to Push Its Drivers’ Buttons
“When horrible news — like the 2015 Paris attack, or Robin Williams’s suicide — breaks, crisis counseling services often get a deluge of calls from people dealing with despair. Deciding whom to help first can be a life-or-death decision.”
Read: How artificial intelligence can predict suicide attempts before they occur
“In the Dubai of 2050, the world looks both instantly familiar and utterly strange.”
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“For the past two years, I’ve worked as a machine learning design researcher. Machine learning is programming that learns from user inputs and adapts and improves over time. It’s my humble belief that machine learning and artificial intelligence is going to radically change product design.”
Read: Caroline Sinders on Ethical Product Design for Machine Learning
“Google is giving thousands of contractors who normally evaluate search results a new, additional task: help the company downrank blatantly upsetting, offensive, and false content. Search Engine Land has a thorough explainer on the updated guidelines used by Google’s quality raters.”
Read: Google is teaching search algorithms to better spot offensive, factually incorrect results
“Midnight, January 8, 2016. High above the snow-covered tundra of arctic Sweden, a Canadair CRJ-200 cargo jet made a beeline through the -76 degree air. Inside the cockpit, the pilot in command studied the approach information for Tromsø, Norway.”
“Fei-Fei Li, chief scientist of artificial intelligence and machine learning at Google Cloud, came on stage at Google’s Next Cloud conference today to talk about the current and next-generation applications of AI that Google’s working on.”
Read: Google can now recognize objects in videos using machine learning