“Imagine if, during the Jim Crow era, a newspaper offered advertisers the option of placing ads only in copies that went to white readers. That’s basically what Facebook is doing nowadays.”
“How Robert Glasper sampled Miles Davis October 2016 for 2,000 Screenplays, Broken Down by Gender and Age April 2016 This is What Sounded Like, in 1995 January 2016 Using to Measure the Popularity of Older Music September 2015”
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“The last time the Chicago Cubs made the World Series was 1945. Their starting lineup for Game 1 looked like this: Then in 1947 Jackie Robinson broke the Major League Baseball color barrier, and African-American and Latino players trickled into the league.”
“To understand how image recognition algorithms “see,” companies like Google can force their software to create images based on their training, rather than simply sort them. It’s the same technique that gave us these bizarre images of dogs created by Google’s artificial neural network Deep Dream.”
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“A new report from Georgetown Law’s Center on Privacy and Technology says all it takes is a driver’s license to be included in the searchable databases. Rachel Martin talks to co-author Alvaro Bedoya.”
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“Japan has a unique fascination with androids and the quest to make robots more like humans. One of the country’s most original thinkers in this area is Professor Takashi Ikegami of the University of Tokyo. He has created androids filled with sensors and artificial intelligence software.”
“Cops are using secret cellphone trackers nationwide to collect cellphone data—especially in poor, black neighborhoods. Louise Goldsberry, a Florida nurse, was washing dishes when she looked outside her window and saw a man pointing a gun at her face.”
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“Researchers at Microsoft have published details of new speech recognition technology that they say transcribes conversational speech as well as a human does. “We’ve reached human parity,” says Microsoft’s chief speech scientist Xuedong Huang in a statement. “This is an historic achievement.””
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“A coalition that includes the ACLU, EFF, and 50 other organizations has asked the Department of Justice to investigate how the FBI and police are using large-scale facial recognition databases in criminal investigations.”
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“It was just after sundown when a man knocked on Steve Talley’s door in south Denver. The man claimed to have hit Talley’s silver Jeep Cherokee and asked him to assess the damage. So Talley, wearing boxers and a tank top, went outside to take a look.”