“Today begins week three of the poker tournament between Libratus, an AI system built by researchers from Carnegie Mellon University, and four of the world’s top pros. While the humans plan to soldier on, a gallows humor has taken hold.”
Read: The poker-playing AI is getting smarter and the humans are getting tired
“Facial recognition technology is known to struggle to recognize black faces. The underlying reason for this shortcoming runs deeper than you might expect, according to researchers at MIT.”
Read: Most engineers are white — and so are the faces they use to train software
“You are standing on a street in Syria when suddenly an explosion is heard, body parts are flying everywhere and you run for cover. You’re in Gaza, experiencing the reality of a Palestinian woman who has lost her sons in an Israel Defense Forces attack.”
Read: Virtual reality: A tool for peace, or for ‘empathy tourism’?
“OK, @Google, you might have missed the point of @HiddenFigures. http://pic.twitter.com/s1DXn53c6G 7:40 PM – 14 Jan 2017 Seriously. What the fuck. @Google @HiddenFigures @Bibliogato @Google @HiddenFigures Noooooope. Nope nope nopenopnope.”
“Police in Bentonville, Arkansas are turning to Amazon to help prosecute a suspected murderer. The case, which was first spotted by The Information and goes back to 2015, shines a light on how smart home devices might start playing a larger role in future criminal investigations.”
Read: Police want an Echo’s data to prove a murder case, but how much does it really know?
“Police in Bentonville, Arkansas are turning to Amazon to help prosecute a suspected murderer. The case, which was first spotted by The Information and goes back to 2015, shines a light on how smart home devices might start playing a larger role in future criminal investigations.”
Read: Police want an Echo’s data to prove a murder case, but how much does it really know?
“As machine learning is increasingly used to make important decisions across core social domains, the work of ensuring that these decisions aren’t discriminatory becomes crucial.”
“As machine learning is increasingly used to make important decisions across core social domains, the work of ensuring that these decisions aren’t discriminatory becomes crucial.”
“As machine learning is increasingly used to make important decisions across core social domains, the work of ensuring that these decisions aren’t discriminatory becomes crucial.”
“Ashok Goel needed help. In his regular courses at Georgia Tech, the computer science professor had at most a few dozen students. But his online class had 400 students — students based all over the world; students who viewed his class videos at different times; students with questions.”